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Arp Odyssey style arpeggiator
So, the Korg Odyssey iOS app was very much my gateway drug app, & many more apps & synths down the road, inc the Korg Odyssey & Cherry Audio 2600 VSTs on PC, I still feel like the Odyssey is my go-to synth, in particular for the layout/workflow of its arpeggiator (which i'm aware wasn't part of the original hardware - anyone know what Korg modeled it on?)
But i'm all too aware of the app's limitations, being IAA, & maybe even limited lifespan if I want to use it with other things, ie in Aum.
I'm sure I can find another synth I like if need be, but I'd love to be able to create the same sequenced, polyrhythmic arpeggiator patterns. Does anyone know of a standalone midi arppegiator which has a similar sequencer style format to the Odyssey's, please?
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I don’t know Odyssey at all but I’ve made this in Drambo in about 30 mins. After I’ve made this vid I’ve added a chord module which allows to set a chord to arpeggiate it won’t do a chord played from the keyboard though.
How do you achieve polyrhythms?
share preset for this?
@eross voila
https://patchstorage.com/graphic-arpeggiator/
@supadom Thanks!!!! I love that arp and sound you have going on there!!!!
Since we need to time events on exact instances of a pulse you need to have a common
denominator for complex polyrhythms... that number for 1-6 is 60. If you add 7 it's 420.
I suspect you could cut corners on a few cases and use 32 or just adapt as needed to the 16 per bar which everything seems to support.
Spreading your subdivisions across 64 pulses and kicking the BPM up above 200 might get you something close to a nice polyrhythmic sound. 3:4 is pretty easy since they align on 12
pulses which work for 3 pulses in most drum machines and re-align on 1 after 3 bars (48 pulses).
Composers like Frank Zappa just expected his musicians to be able to subdivide any pulse into many values. The drummers and mallet wizard, Ruth Underwood, got the worst of his
rhythmic imagination. I think he created puzzles just to test their ability to confront challenges. You can tell when he does it because the dance floor looses coherence with the band.
Interesting watch, & nice tune! I guess I should elaborate on the features i particularly enjoy from Odyssey, & that's that you can modulate semitone, octave & gate, PLUS up to 3 other features from anywhere on the synth, all from the step sequencer. And that's all after the input. So even if you just give it one note, it can create a huge amount.
And I should have said polymeter, not polyrhythms, sorry (and I just watched that Andrew Huang video too). ie that the steps & modulations can patterns of up to 16, on divisons of 1/32 to 1/4 note, inc dotteds.