Hi,
I think this question is better posted here.
Im working on a house track with a very basic/common funky/shuffled 8 bar minor key bassline.
Im using Reason 4, and im dragging/copying very small dots/notes for making the bassline.
I thought that making music this way was piece of cake, but making a house track bassline is very difficult! Im strugling with the timing of the notes.
The arrangement is super easy, but actually typing it in in the matrix, with funky little vatiations create problems for me.
Im giving the bass kind of triplet feel which means I have 5 blank notes between every note on as basis, and offcourse variations of this.
I think my notes is 32ths notes then?
Techniques for typing notes into pianoroll
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Your language isn't clear to me. 32nds, there are 8 of them to a quarter, simple arithmetic: 8x4.
In such an application, the 'beat' is probably given as 'quarter note' values.
It SOUNDS as if you have six of these within one beat. That is known as sextuple sixteenths.
Rules of thumb: Let's give the Quarter a value of 1.
We're going to subdivide from '1'.
"8ths"; there's going to be two of them, within {in the time of} the 1. ANY THING in between this '1 quarter', and these '2 eighths'; for instance, 1.5, is still called a kind of quarter. {Over four beats, 4/4 time, there will be six of these. if you do three of them, over two 'beats', you'll call them 'triplets'. 3:2 ratio.}
"16ths"; there's going to be four, in the time of one quarter. ANY THING in between these four 16ths, and the next subdivision by two, the 32nds: 5, 6, 7, in the time of one quarter, you'll call them '16ths'.
5 in the time of 4, called pentuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 5 are pentuplet 16ths.
6 in the time of 4, called sextuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 6 are sextuplet 16ths.
7 in the time of 4, called septuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 7 are septuplet 16ths.
8 in the time of 4: the next level, in this case, 32nds.
this rule of thumb goes all the way out, and all the way in. I began with the quarter note for brevity, and because it's going to be your given value in software, as a 'beat', a 'quarter-note beat'.
In such an application, the 'beat' is probably given as 'quarter note' values.
It SOUNDS as if you have six of these within one beat. That is known as sextuple sixteenths.
Rules of thumb: Let's give the Quarter a value of 1.
We're going to subdivide from '1'.
"8ths"; there's going to be two of them, within {in the time of} the 1. ANY THING in between this '1 quarter', and these '2 eighths'; for instance, 1.5, is still called a kind of quarter. {Over four beats, 4/4 time, there will be six of these. if you do three of them, over two 'beats', you'll call them 'triplets'. 3:2 ratio.}
"16ths"; there's going to be four, in the time of one quarter. ANY THING in between these four 16ths, and the next subdivision by two, the 32nds: 5, 6, 7, in the time of one quarter, you'll call them '16ths'.
5 in the time of 4, called pentuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 5 are pentuplet 16ths.
6 in the time of 4, called sextuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 6 are sextuplet 16ths.
7 in the time of 4, called septuplets. as four in the time of one quarter are called 16ths, the 7 are septuplet 16ths.
8 in the time of 4: the next level, in this case, 32nds.
this rule of thumb goes all the way out, and all the way in. I began with the quarter note for brevity, and because it's going to be your given value in software, as a 'beat', a 'quarter-note beat'.
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 9 Feb, 2008
I believe he is talking about FL Studio, Reason, etc. "Piano Roll" feature, not to be confused with an actual Piano Roll (Physical). Im also interested in any Piano Roll. Making music in this manner is the wave of the future. And I hope you all will hear music of mine in the near future. I come from the stars and I wish to share my consciousness with you all in the form of musical compositions.
-Samir
-Samir