Just a Question about the typical tracker arpeggiator command

I’ve been slowing the bpm way down and bouncing the Audio to figure out how the tracker arpeggiator works.

When I play a single line at 4 lpm it comes out as “1231231” so seven notes, but the first and last seem to be half as long.
So it’s a bit like “123123” but shifted half a note, if that makes sense.

Is that how it is? How come? It seems very odd.

I’m just asking here in hopes to get a bit of background on why and how that is.
Thank you very much for reading. :slight_smile:

Cheers, Aaron.

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That’s interesting. I tried this with 6 ticks per line and that actually gives 6 equal notes exactly as you’d expect. (Renoise defaults to 12 TPL).

I did this in Redux, with 48 LPB ( 4 x 12) now these 12 lines are what 1 line would have been at 4 LPB. With midi out I can now use it to give other Instruments that “tracker vibe” arpeggio, since the fx commands in themselves do not work with midi out.

I’d love to have an arpeggiator that can do that by picking the first / second / third note of a chord I press, like some arpeggiators do it. But I couldn’t even find one which would let me do this sequence. I guess it would be:
1/192 Note:1 | 1/96 Note:2 | 1/96 Note:3 | 1/96 Note:1 | 1/96 Note:2 | 1/96 Note:3 | 1/192 Note:1

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