I guess this type of tool would fall under the generative type like dblues’s Fractional Notes or It-Alien’s Sample Slicer. It may provide an alternative to clips, but that’s another subject.
Scales and chords for example, each set will have its own particular sound. A big part of why they sound that way is because of the intervals, the spaces in between each note. A Major chord with the intervals of 0 4 3 (base note, 4 notes up, then 3 notes up = C E G), a minor chord’s intervals are flipped 0 3 4 (C D# G). A simple change culminating to what many folks describe as the happy chord and the sad chord, hence the names Major and Minor. Of course it can become subjective once a musician starts manipulating the way its composed rhythmically or some other way.
So, like scales and chords, there are particular rhythms, the time in between each strike, pluck, hammer, or press. Notable examples are jazz and its use of heavy syncopation and the opposite, 4 to the floor 4 music with its heavy use of steady beats.
I find that counting rhythmic intervals in odd numbers works best to organize them into scale rhythms so to speak. The suggested tool would generate one note in odd rhythmic intervals such as 1/16ths, 3/16ths, 5/16ths, 7/16ths.
Here is a similar way of how the tool would work.
