Can someone explain to me why swing affects 16th notes?

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#22

Swing can also be used as a delay, or microtiming…

That’s deceiving, I thought you knew all Elektron manuals by heart. :stuck_out_tongue:

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#23

they were very much a soundsystem first, so I guess sub would have been a BIG thing in their sound from that… It’s a London thing*.

  • alright, a Kingston thing people brought to London. :wink:
#24

What do you mean they were a sound system first? Do we have non humans living among us, making music?

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#25

ha, I knew this would get confusing :wink:

I meant they operated as a soundsystem in this sense:

so they had their own custom built equipment and would play warehouse parties and illicit dances and whatever around London before they were a pop act. And that kind of dance is all about who’s system makes it difficult to breathe properly/gives you an itchy nose because the sub is so powerful.

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#26

I wish everyone would take a minute to read that Roger Linn interview so we could all be on the same page with this stuff.

Indeed. I learned a lot from this article. It is an answer to the thread question, and there’s a ton of other useful and interesting stuff in there.

Strangely, he seems to prefer the Tempest (over, say, the Rytm)… not sure why…

#27

Don’t know if you’re kidding, but he was one of the creators of the tempest :slight_smile:

#28

Just now getting around to reading that article. I love this quote

I noticed that what I had recorded played back on perfect 16th notes, effectively correcting my timing errors, so I decided to call this bug a feature, which I called ‘timing correct’, which the copycats later called ‘quantize’.

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#29

From a drummers perspective ( me ):
Either cut your scale or your tempo in 1/2 to get the sound that your brain is equating with the notation you were taught.
The difference in notation is academic in the sense that 1/4 notes at 120bpm are going to sound like 1/2 notes @ 240bpm.

In my mind, the term “swing” is used in sequencers because it shortens the distance between straight 8ths in the closest way that a machine can emulate what people do, keeping in mind that this terminology is ~ 40yrs old at the time of this writing.

Swing is a style, something you can ride at the park, a setting in sequencers, something a pendulum does… just make it sound the way it needs to so the hips swing, eh?

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