Formula Assisted Song Translator By using a few basic mathematical symbols and the pattern reference numbers, you can put patterns in any order very quickly. Before you start, you need to know the ref numbers of the patterns you want to use - some patterns are designed to be used together. We'll cover this in another article. For now I'll stick with the basics:
To access the FAST input screen:
000+012 will play the first pattern followed by the second pattern then stop. 000+000+012 will play the first pattern twice followed by the second pattern once then stop. Note: you can miss out the unnecessary 0's. so..... 0+0+12 would give the same result as the second example above. As some songs are going to use a lot of the same pattern we can use the 'times' symbol to repeat a pattern. 0x2+12 would give the same result as the second example above 0x15+12 would play pattern '000' 15 times then pattern '012' once then stop So for our verse we want patter '000' to play 8 times. And for our Chorus we want pattern '012' to play 4 times: 0x8+12x4 So now we have a basic verse-chorus progression in a group. Our song repeats this progression 3 times. To do this quickly we can use brackets around the group. (0x8+12x4)x3 This will play verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus You can get as complicated as you like with these. experiment is the best way to figure it all out. A video example of programming this rhythm song: 0x4 + 4x2 + 5x2 + 464 can be found here on YouTube Presented by derthed Meaning: 4 times #000 (08Beat01) - bar 1 -16, then 2 times #004 (08Beat05) - bar 17 - 24, then 2 times #005 (08Beat06) - bar 25 - 32, and 1 time #464 (Ending01). |