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which app generates the best random rhythms?
I am looking for an app that you can create random beats with and that has effective randomization, creating useful
interesting and unique variations. On desktop, I find that Microtonic does this really well. Something like that. Doesn't
have to just produce just electronic sounds either.
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Sector is brilliant if you have a simple beat loop to load in. I like to create a basic 2-4 bar beat / rhythm in Patterning or Gadget, then export to Audioshare, trim / fine-tune, and load into Sector. From there, the creative variations are legion.
My vote is for Different Drummer.
Sector. My favourite app ever.
One note on sector: instead of putting in a beat loop you can also put it a bunch of drum samples aligned to a grid and then make beats with it's sequencer + randomization. Using your favorite drum app make a 16 step beat that has a few steps of stand alone kicks, snares and hats. Then, a few steps that combine them in different ways (sector is monophonic so if you want a kick and a cymbal at the same time, you'll need a sector that has them). Export as a fixed loop and import. Now you can treat each sector as either a kick, snare, hat, kick+hat, kick+snare... and go nuts.
For acoustic stuff, Drumjam+Bedlam is always inspiring.
There are other apps, I'm sure, but drawing a blank at the moment.
Yeah. You can tighten up lovely w/ the sequencer page. Like a beat sculptor.
Gadget can be used to make and export correctly trimmed beats. Then use Sequential and Sector to mold them.
I use Sector and patterning and love them!
Sector is indeed brillant but, despise being pretty simple in it's interface, is a little bit difficult to tame(specially the warping page) the results can be wild !
Patterning will also add variation (much less crazy) using the "probabillity" fonction and you can use it to controll other drum machines
they are very different , both would help you to achieve your goal!
Judicious use of the sequencer page can go a long way toward taming the beast.
What @syrupcore said.
Plus the sectors are midi-assignable.
I would go with Sector or Patterning but Samplr and Egoist can randomize a beat too
I like Egoist, but it seems to have a mind of its own, RE: weird truncation w/ exports, and cryptic triggering. Not to mention a supremely cramped interface.
Elastic drums does random sequence, instrument and all. DM1 has useful random buttons as well. Sector is awesome. I also like iVCS3 for random beats
Once upon a time Stochastik
Is Elastic sample-based?
@Icepulse no samples. It's a synth. Musyc could do that. NodeBeat is another good randomiser for midi
Musyc can do what?
Sadly, Nodebeat's MIDI is spotty, at best.
Musyc can play samples
Export as a fixed loop and import. Now you can treat each sector as either a kick, snare, hat, kick+hat, kick+snare... and go nuts.
BRILLIANT:)
Sector, Patterning, and midiSequencer which has probability for each step. There are others.
Didn't know about DM1's random function. Must try it out some time. And the other apps mentioned here.
NOW RoboticDrums!
Robotic drums is great, I used it a lot before patterning (doesn't have velocity)
True, true, but it does work on the phone
Random drums isn't really my thing, but I have used Fugue Machine to drive drums in iM1 to produce some interesting patterns, changing the pitch and octave of each playhead means different drums are used. Of course any source of drum sounds could be used.
Sector is great, as others have noted.
Another one is the midi controller StepPolyArp. Yes, you have to route it to another app or a desktop DAW, but you can get some great rhythms going with a lot of variation. It has an ever so slight learning curve, but once it clicks it's easy to use.
Would you consider the Jamming function in Rock Drum Machine to create enough randomness or variation?
TweakyBeats is currently free, super easy to use, and has a randomize button, I think.
tweaky beats doesn't have a randomizer but seekbeats by the same developer does.
robotic drums is cool but if I'm not mistaken doesn't allow you to use your own samples but Stochastik by the same developer does allow you to use your own samples
That's a good idea, didn't think of that. One of my very under-used apps that one, must have to dig it out and try this.
Seekbeats and Elastic Drums are my favourite randomised beat making thingies, Egoist is good too.
I am a sucker for Egoist, still. There must (of course) be a common correlation between how much time we've spent in an app and how highly we think of it...not certain I've actually 'made' anything in it, or used anything I've made in it. Yet. But it's a comfortably odd little world.
Different Drummer