Best way to create fills on the fly?

Elektron Gear Analog Rytm
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I enjoy jamming and dislike structuring and preparation etc. I like the creative opportunity of the present moment and think that pre made or pre heard sounds or set ups confines me. There is nothing more creative enhancing than the possibility of making mistakes. Therefore I don’t usually spend time setting up scenes or performance pads because I don’t know what sounds I’ll be using until they are created.

Is there a way to create fills on fly? I have a volca beats and that thing have a button to pause the sequencer on a certain step which for example could be used for fills.

I use the RYTMs mute track function a bit but would appreciate if you could share other ways of creating fills on the fly.

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Would be awesome if there was a fill function like …

  • press and hold a step to repeat that step
  • press and hold multiple steps and repeat them all
  • press and hold two steps and repeat the steps and all between
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Good idea!

Maybe time signature and pattern length alterations could be used to create fills?

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Yeah realtime pattern length and time sig changes with jump mode.

Function+Chain - select range / individual steps to be repeated (Fill)

Trig buttons - pattern length / time sig of selected ‘Fill’
(similar performance as the freeze delay repeater on OT)

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there’s always the retrig function…

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Cool … what about it?

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sorry to ask… but what is a ‘fill’?

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It’s the opposite of an empty

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[quote=““De wouzer””]
sorry to ask… but what is a ‘fill’?
[/quote]

A drum fill

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The easiest way Ive found to do simple fills is with delay fx on the mixer.

Use delay wet/dry amount to chop from dry beat (no delay) to 100% delay or 50% delay.
100% delay is the beat shifted to 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 notes off beat.

Double up beats etc like … 1,2,3,4 … 1,2,3,3 etc was the primary use of the pioneer DJM mixer FX for me.

Similar to this guy but with 100% of the effect to change the whole beat.

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How about just (gasp) padding it out on the fly? Sure you can f it up but with practice you can learn to pull off simple fills quite reliably. Thats what the pads are there for…

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you can program the fill in p-locked at zero volume, then bring them in with a scene or performance change. This can cut sounds short though, which is sometimes annoying.

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+1

Put a blank pattern next (edit: and save a different kit for variation), go quickly into chain mode, padded fill in, exit chain and be on your way.

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I find it easier to make fills on the Korga Volca Beats…You can toggle which steps will play/be skipped on the fly, etc…For all the talk of elektron’s sequencers, they are missing so many features present in cheaper devices.

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Look up TRIG MUTES in the manual.

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In scene / performance mode, hold a pad and place trigs, these trigs will only play when you hold that pad <<— I wish they implement this someday…

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I like to have some patterns set aside as fills"and use Direct Jump mode to switch between, but unfortunately Direct Jump is buggy and will sometimes slip a step and throw your timing off. So I don’t do many fills :frowning:

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Oh hell YES!

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This would be easy to do if the trig page was lockable to performance and scene controls. It can be p-locked so it must be possible in principle? You could p-lock fill trigs off and then performance lock them on so they would turn on when you pushed a pad…

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Look up TRIG MUTES in the manual.[/quote]
I know about Trig Mutes, but they are PER TRACK and not GLOBAL!
It would be great to be able to trig mute the entire kit/pattern and also have another mode where you can specify which steps loop over and over (so if I select trig 1 and 6, the entire kit/pattern will loop 1 through 6 over and over…instant polyrhythm fills ,especially if you use other hardware)…