Bitwig - Ricochet

[@MattnUska]

I have used this with piano arpeggios in a cinematic thing I did. Like said, you use the sustain pedal to hold the arpeggios then you can change the chord and hold the sustain again. For me it’s less useful when you are programming notes. It makes interesting things if you are playing a keyboard.

[@pikejon]

For use cases I like to put a quantise device after ricochet with low speed + damping then automate the quantise amount to have very random sounding notes that slowly come into rhythm. This works especially well with very short organic sounds, like a round robin of raindrops or bells, put it into a reverb and you have an instant 3D atmosphere. Order by chaos by Max Cooper has a good example of this sort of effect.

[@ProduceWithMe]

Thanks for the comment yep I need to experiment with quantize next

[@PaulFreemanTheTall]

I think I understand the Eno reference. If you listen to 'Reflections' I think this is probably the kind of generative music they are referring to. Way back Eno made a program which I have (on floppy disk!) that generated music sounding a bit like this. I tried sending in some notes from the keyboard but don't know how to sustain them to get the required effect as I'm learning Bitwig. Ideally I'd like to generate a sequence and send it into Ricochet to achieve this effect.

[@ProduceWithMe]

I will experiment with this and probably make a video... If you don't have a sustain pedal hooked to your keyboard you can add a midi lane and then CC #64... probably a bit of a pain but doable.

[@PaulFreemanTheTall]

@@ProduceWithMe I wanted to generate the notes rather than play them, which seems to mean using the arpegiator. I haven't tried it yet.

[@user-je9lh6it3f]

Waiting for Quadraphonic in Bitwig over 4 channel 🔊

[@DaleHEmery]

Sending chords into Ricochet followed by a Quantize device is a great way to add controlled-but-unpredictable variation. I tried to link to an example, but KZbin (or someone/something else) deleted/hid my comment.

[@ProduceWithMe]

Makes sense... I'm actually pretty far behind on Bitwig innovations. In hindsight should have done this one along with humanize and quantize because they seem to go in tandem