Pattern Length - longer drum patterns and more variation | Drum Machine 101 Ep. 3

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[@CaptainPikant]

Thank you so much, we're really happy you enjoy it!

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[@nxn-analogxanalog5739]

Great explanation and especially illustration! Thank you so much! Other ideas to create variance are the usage of randomness (e.g. on accents) and polyrhythms.

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[@CaptainPikant]

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Beat bunny kicking the bars and those funny noises when it turns its head...my humor :)

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[@CaptainPikant]

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This series is great! I’m really hoping for more videos to come around drum patterns.

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[@richardbskelton]

My TR-6S arrived yesterday, so your timing is excellent

[@CaptainPikant]

Have fun, it's a great little machine :) Also keep an eye out for our TR-6S review/tutorial that's coming soon.

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best ending @YT video collection. Cool BlueM cover. Nice video, used to play with pattern lenght & jumps with 90's trackers... sometimes synch skiped a bit.

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[@CaptainPikant]

Good to see you again :) Thank you for watching!

[@fjfrancois]

My pleasure my Friend.

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Very useful!

[@German_LP]

Buen trabajo Captain!

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Great episode once again!

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[@Mood_Inc]

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This is art

[@dubcousteau]

Wieviel Arbeit hat denn allein in dem Stop Motion Part gesteckt? Ganz großes Kino.

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[@CaptainPikant]

Thank you! :)

[@Domenikisimo]

really nice work, bunnies

[@JH-lo9ut]

Roland tr-8 has A/B versions of each pattern. Push both buttons and it will alternate between them. (But there is no way of copying A>B 😡) You can also chain patterns together. On Korg electribe2, you have up to four pages of 16 steps. The pattern you make on the first page will be automatically copied to the next page once you activate them. Novation Cirquit has 4 pages of 16 steps that can be chained together. Cirquit tracks (the "mk2" Cirquit) has the same 4*16 steps patterns but each pattern can be extended to 32 steps. The cirquit tracks also allows you to set individual pattern lengths from 1-32 for each pattern, set individual time signatures for each pattern and set sub-steps for each trigger. You get four drum tracks, two synth tracks and two assignable midi tracks. And if that wasn't enough, the "song mode" gives another layer of options to change the order of how the patterns are played. What looks pretty basic at first glance is is a super powerful sequencer if you dig into it, and I wish more people would explore this.

[@WelkySchullin]

Thx

[@keeprealquiet]

I'm a guitarist who likes to write and record on my own, and recently I've fallen into the rabbit hole of this channels videos from the 15 Step drum pattern video. I play mostly rock music, but the electronic drumming styles of the more 80s-sounding machines really intrigue me - I've been thinking about buying a drum machine for a few days now. There is a question that I've had, though, and I haven't really been able to find a solid answer on it: in a lot of rock songs, drum patterns will switch from a main part to a chorus or a bridge. Is there any way to replicate this in a hands-free way with a drum machine without a DAW? I've been trying to figure out if something cheap (like the Volca Beat) could switch with a stompbox, though results have been inconclusive. Would I be better off buying something like a sequencer? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[@CaptainPikant]

What you're looking for is a drum machine with song mode (sometimes called track mode or arranger mode). This allows you to pre-program a playlist of patterns. Most dedicated sequencers also have this so you could use one to control a drum machine that doesn't have song mode. But this is the more expensive route since you'd need a sequencer and a drum machine.

[@difflocktwo]

lol at the rabbit kicking some steps

[@jasonrsk8]

you have criminally low views. Great stuff

[@karlwesslau]

Captain, your morse code signal is slightly unreadable. It sounds like you ami to start with ”Dear captain”. What’s the rest? Love your videos!!

[@versus_vaxxyz]

Dear captain, can you please demonstrate how to use toms in a drum beat?

[@CaptainPikant]

That's definitely on the roadmap for the "Drum Patterns Explained" series :)

[@tompuce84]

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[@margaritaandthemasters]

What's a step and what's a page?

[@CaptainPikant]

Hi Tanya, a step is the smallest unit a sequencer can display, often a 1/16th note by default. Take a look at DM101 Episode 1, it's shown there kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6LCdXqXm7JgatU A page, as shown in this episode, is the part of the pattern that is currently being displayed on the physical sequencer steps.

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This was series was

[@jamesmulligan1077]

So annoying. Made for kindergarten, or nonmusicians...