As of late, I’ve been pattern chaining and slowing tempos down to really get beyond the limitations of 64 steps. A lot of my sequences lately have been 128 steps, but over the last few days I’ve created a song with three different parts, each with 96 steps.
I don’t know much about music theory as it regards time signatures. But I am curious about what a 96-step sequence does to a time signature. Anything? Nothing?
I know that it sounds good. But this might really have more to do with my chord progressions and the counterpunctal possibilities across multiple melodic tracks on the Digitakt.
The reason I pose this question is because in IDM, you often hear tracks that go beyond 64 steps, but they don’t seem be 128 steps either. I wanted to experiment with this type of sequencing in my own way.
Ultimately, time signature doesn’t matter. If it sounds good, then who cares. I’m just wondering if I’ve slipped into a different time signature.