Currently I’m using 32 LPB as my compositional standard.
I needed a “collapsed view” of the pattern editor.
The following is a description and cut down version of what I’m experimenting with.
First we have a rhythmic palette view, inspired by gearing systems in motorcycles as well as the piano keyboard itself.
This rhythmic palette view is organized from fastest to slowest, slowest being at the very bottom and tagged with the number 01.
In this example we have a total of 06, 06 being the fastest at 3/32nd notes which means at 32LPB is 12 lines.
06 --03 --32 --12
05 --01 --08 --16
04 --03 --16 --24
03 --01 --04 --32
02 --15 --32 --60
01 --09 --08 -144
Next we have the collapsed view, expressed with an event counter, loop point, and rhythmic palette.
Note: “loop point” in rhytmic terms I guess could be also described as aliases but for this experiment I didn’t use aliases in this way.
So it looks like this…
Each bracket is a track, in this exmample, we have three tracks.
A grouped percussion track with 04 total instruments and 02 melodic harmonic tracks.
Events are expressed in sequenced numbers, the percussion track has a total of 20 events for example.
Sequenced grouped instruments are next to the number of events.
Loop points are expressed as “o” and “|”.
Rhythmic palettes are expressed as “------”. 6 horizontal lines being the total rhythmic intervals mentioned above.
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Percussion... Melodic.... Melodic....
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[0101o---4--] [01o----5-] [--.------]
[...........] [02|--3---] [01o1-----]
[0201|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[0303|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[0402|-----6] [03|-2----] [--.------]
[0504|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[0601o---4--] [--.------] [--.------]
[0701|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[0803|-----6] [04|---4--] [--.------]
[0902|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[1004|-----X] [05|-----X] [--.------]
[1101o---4--] [06o----5-] [--.------]
[...........] [07|--3---] [02o1-----]
[1201|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[1303|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[1402|-----6] [08|-2----] [--.------]
[1504|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[1601o---4--] [--.------] [--.------]
[1701|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[1803|-----6] [09|---4--] [--.------]
[1902|-----6] [--.------] [--.------]
[2004|-----X] [10|-----X] [--.------]
A closer look at the percussion track and its first 5 events.
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Percussion...
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[0101o---4--] event 01, instrument 01, start of loop expressed as "o", a value of 24 lines expressed as "---4--"
[...........] "..........." means there is an event here but located at a different track
[0201|-----6] event 02, instrument 01, part of loop expressed as "|", a value of 12 lines expressed as "-----6"
[0303|-----6] event 03, instrument 03, part of loop expressed as "|", a value of 12 lines expressed as "-----6"
[0402|-----6] event 04, instrument 02, part of loop expressed as "|", a value of 12 lines expressed as "-----6"
[0504|-----6] event 05, instrument 04, part of loop expressed as "|", a value of 12 lines expressed as "-----6"
A closer look at shared rhythms.
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Percussion... Melodic.... Melodic....
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[1004|-----X] [05|-----X] [--.------] event 10 for Percussion and event 05 for Melodic share the same rhythm, a value of 12 lines expressed as "-----X"
What the above description sounds like. Warning: no deep mixing, bass heavy, watch out for your speakers or head phones.