 TripletsHowTo |
How to Program Ghjetto Trippz
If you're starting from scratch of not trying to line up triplet phrases with phrases that have a default timing, it's quite easy: put a hop on row 0C of every pattern!
then you can do something like a simple kick-snare-kick-snare pattern, but with room to throw trips in at will:
this method is also nice because it can be used with any groove you like, for funkier trippz =)
How to Program Proper Triplets
It's easy to program Triplet Notes by using grooves.
If we assume that the base groove is on 6 ticks, a beat will be all in all 4*6=24 ticks long... Like this (in phrase sequencer):
+ Step 3: 6 ticks
= 1 Beat: 24 ticks
If we want to program a triplet, we want three steps to be exactly as long as a beat. That is, the 24 ticks of a beat should be divided on three steps. 24 divided by 3 gives us 8 ticks a step.
So we can then program an alternate groove with 8 ticks per step, and the result would be like this:
+ Step 2: 8 ticks
= 1 Beat: 24 ticks
A full 4/4 measure of four beats would then be only 3*4=12 steps long, so one would have to make the phrase hop to next phrase on step 12 already, by using the H command.
Another way to do it, without using the H command, is to program a groove with a dummy tick; so that a 4/4 measure will fill out all 16 steps in the phrase screen. Like this:
+ Step 3: 1 ticks (dummy tick)
= 1 Beat: 24 ticks
In the phrases, the steps 3, 7, B and F are now dummy steps that should be ignored.
— Johan
When using grooves that's not evenly dividable by 3, I found that the best result is to have fewer ticks in the beginning. Like this:
Using a shuffled feel for 16ths...
and tripplet 8ths.
Or, another shuffled feel for 16ths,
will result in the following groove to require tripplet 8ths:
— trash
Here's how I do triplets:
Assuming the 16-step phrase represents 1 measure of 4 beats,
and the groove for all other channels is 6.
GROOVE 00
0 8
1 4
2 4
3 8
Each note gets 8 tics and it lines up with the other channels.
— Bud