Euclidean Rhythms EXPLAINED 

Thank you!! 🙏🏻 I am way prouder of it than I should be

The swoosh at the end really was the icing on the cake :>. Great video! Thanks for your work :)

Well does that scare you?

1970s West German synth yes, but I get more of a Duesseldorf vibe.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cwFh4I73hrQ.html so, I went and built one this week. great fun to play with, and its amazing how quickly interesting beats can build. Thanks to White Noises for the simple intro.

I just discovered this video, and I thought the very same thing! :D

@@MaurizioDiBerardino Scrolled won planning to write "instant Steve Reich" and then saw this thread

This might be my favourite comment I've ever received

I'm glad you're enjoying!

White Noises i so am!

+Pieter Dirksen I believe you’re correct! Thanks for pointing that out.

I played drums until my twenties, and still to this day, occationally funky beats pop in my head out of no where. It is amazing how many are unintentional polyrhythms. Or perhaps I am subconsciously picking up on polyrhythms in my environment which causes them to get stuck in my head.

A paradiddle is considered a polyrhythm if you split the hands on different sound sources. Polyrhythm literally means “many rhythms” so it doesn’t have to be two different time signatures to perform a polyrhythm.

I think what you're referring to here is just the result of quantisation due to discrete and limited number of steps this particular sequencer (and probably most others) allow. It may not technically be a polyrythm, but it adds the funk, so I guess it's not bad :) To achieve what you describe, given sequencer would need to be able to produce signals along a continuous timeline of a specified duration, not quantised to a specific number of steps. I don't know if such a sequencer exists (I suppose Soma's Ornament-8 is something along those lines, but not entirely either) but I sure would like to have one xD Also, I thought it'd be nice if this sequencer allowed for different lengths of the four tracks, thus allowing to create polymeters instead :)

Yeah, theres CV inputs for that

I think so!

+Robert Syrett I haven’t tried but be lots of fun!

Suddenly all melodies sound like they were programmed by Prefuse '73 :)

Thank you very much! I personally find myself using Pulsar more, but that's because I tend to need to program rhythms more often than melodies. But if melodies are your thing, definitely Bloom!

Uriel Septim check out Soniccouture. They have some VSTs with a “Euclidean Beats” function (Konkrete is a good one). Great plugins...

Most eurorack modules don't use MIDI, but control voltage or CV. CV is analog and can only represent a single voltage at a time, whereas MIDI being digital can send any number of note on commands at the same time. Therefore in eurorack, even if you have a digital oscillator that's capable of polyphony, you'd still need multiple CV cables to implement that. Alternatively, some modules might generate a chord from a single CV input and either output the CV of the different pitches to different outputs, or play all of the chord voices through a single audio output (or give you access to the different chord voices through different audio outputs, etc).

@@methyod This answer physically wrapped my head around the concept, thank you! Do you know an example of a module that plays a chord through a single output?

SWOOSH!

Tiptop happy ending. Just bought one myself

@@MrBennyfromtheblock "enclosed"

+Nate Belasco yes! More info in the manual here : static1.squarespace.com/static/56feccc7a3360c08ffa34ed4/t/595e652ea5790ac5cf9bb3a8/1499358512261/Pulsar_Manual.pdf

White Noises which cv input controls number of pulses? Do the cv ins act differently in different modes? I saw the manual but it’s tough to understand without having the module

NYCP NY here they’re triggering gates. There’s 4 channels, each for a different note.

example anthillrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/overlapping-spirals

I actually think you're a genius to be able to do this magic

Hahahah thank you!! I'm glad you like it :)

Medhi Bohy don’t sweat it-modular is cool but so is Reaktor,VCV etc.The ideas you have are more important

I'm a poor student myself and now I have an almost full 6U 84HP case:) Maybe try to resell some modules

If you're looking for rhythms that are unique to euclidean, then you want the number of steps to not be cleanly divisible. If it's cleanly divisible by the number of beats, then you get normal rhythms.

Im a bit late here, but the idea is that a module gives you an interface for creating and more importantly manipulating things with or without direct interaction with it in a specific and presubably musical way. If you want to program a static explicit pattern, there's plenty of step sequencers out there for you, this just gives you a different interface for creating a specific type of pattern

Potentially! That would be a polyrhythm, and some sound good together, some don't