A little something about delay

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:38 am

upon reading this thread, i thought i'd just put this in.

In a delay set to bpm, setting the delay to 1/4 will give you the tempo you have set bpm to,or a crotchet (quarter note in some parts). A beat.

Set delay to 1/4T and it will fire off three times every two of those (1/4) beats(crotchet triplets).

Set it to 1/4P and you get 1&1/2 beats, 3 8ths or quavers, a dotted crotchet.

..And so it goes, halving the beat from there to semiquavers and on.

I know its general and obvious for some, but i thought i'd whack it in anyway.

Rock on regardless

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:49 am

Are you sure you didn't spend time in the 80's masquerading as "Roma", my brilliant yet vicious piano teacher? She used to take great pleasure in whacking me over the knuckles (a la Mozart) when I stuffed up playing triplets, which was more frequent than I care to mention! All I can say these days is thank Christ for quantize

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:55 am

Ah, but Retro, my dear man, a well stuffed up triplet can be a beautiful thing

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 9:00 am

LOL

It must be "that" time of the evening again...

Omb · Post by **Omb** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:57 pm

yes retro.
you have remind me my violin teacher who
all the thime lacture me for note name etc..

than god for sequencing.
omb.

303trancer · Post by **303trancer** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:41 pm

Hi Guys,

This is a nice starter. But it is static. Try to tweak the delay time parameter in realtime and you'll be amazed what will happen with your original melody line: It becomes something else, starts to have a life off its own and is superb for creating new melodies!
Superb for trance and techno...

Post by **Neil B** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:28 am

In a situation where your delay plug-in isn't clocked to the tempo you can use the calculation:
Delay = 60,000 / Tempo / 1.33
This will give you a base to work from in sync with the BPM ( 4/4 time).
To improve on this, halve or double the value on one of the stereo channels to give more and different "movement".
Adjust feedback and dry/wet mix to suit.

You can then go into your sequence/arpeggios and change a couple of notes to triplets.

It worked well enough for me in the past.

valis · Post by **valis** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:03 am

Try this little app:

http://www.bassline.com/software/freequency/

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:33 am

303trancer wrote:
Try to tweak the delay time parameter in realtime and you'll be amazed...

That's nice with analog delays and some VST stuff, but on SFP it will cause some bad crackling. Try it

Hey Valis, nice little tool, that Freequency applet!