Production Thoughts

Decided to make a little demo with some cross rhythm patterns

Here’s the furnace file, if you’re interested @Paralytik

Only 4 patterns + a click. If you want to think of it as a time signature, 12/8 or 6/8 is probably the best. I just think of it as 12 beats. There’s not really a subdivision in this kind of music, so meter isn’t really the same.

. . . . . . . . . . .

Click is on the downbeat

x . . x . . x . . x . .

Kind of like quarter note triplets

1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a

First pattern is the standard bell

x . x . x x . x . x . x

then the double strike on the front beat of the pulse

x x . x x . x x . x x .

then double strike on the back beat of the pulse

. x x . x x . x x . x x

then both the front and back double beats playing

x X x x X x x X x x X x

then the chaabi beat

. . x . x . . . x . (x) x .

parentheses around the second to last hit because that’s just one version and it’s not always played

then I just start messing around with combining them.

It’s kinda sloppy, and I was super lazy with the fm synth lol. Might redo it with samples or something in a bit.

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