How do you use conditional triggers?

[andreasroman]

I found them surprisingly powerful for coming up with ideas that just made you think in different ways, when building a pattern. The random parts were always less interesting to me, compared to the way you could use the conditionals to just build on a pattern’s variation, introduction or exit. It reminds me a bit of traditional sheet music, which has its own set of conditionals in it, like second time around-things, da capos, improvised arpeggios and stuff. Them Mozarts and Beethovens knew what they were doing when they implemented an early draft of conditionals in the work.

[spikysimon]

I don’t tend to use the percentage conditionals much on the stuff I’ve done so far, but I do use the others quite a bit, especially to add variety to toms and vocal snatches to extend beyond the 4 bar pattern length.

[ZaBong]

Man, tell me how I do this!

Lets say you have a 4-bar pattern, 64 steps.

Use 4:4 on some notes on the 4th bar - this is like having a drum fill at the 16th bar.
2:2 on a 4-bar pattern is then like having the fill at the 8th bar.
2:3 is then a 12-bar fill.

Combining these, you can have different fills at bar 8, 12 and 16 - in effect, you have defined a 16-bar pattern, not a 4 bar one.

But the fun only starts here. Using random %-trigs, you add a few ghost notes with lower velocity here and there, or a completely different sound using the per note sound, and you can create variations such that bars do not repeat at all, but still maintain the overall groove.

[William_WiLD]

HalutioN made something regarding the OT and mimic TC (Workaround of course)

[provoda]

After spending a couple of years with my Digitakt and later Digitone I realized that I never really used NEI trig conditions. I understand how they work, just wondering how do people use them?

There must be some interesting use cases and ideas

[sezare56]

Ask @Neimad, he goes crazy with NEI.

With DN, and NEI probably usefull to make bigger conditional chords on 2 tracks without increasing their poly allocation?
Alternate chords with /NEI…

[Neimad]

haha I see what ya did der!

[sean808080]

This thread is so useful for an elektron newbie like me.

[Meriphew]

I use them to make patterns sound less static.

[Roger]

Somewhat begrudgingly.

[tdmusic]

@andreasroman

I remember back in the days, Jean-Michel Jarre had this as an idea when he made Waiting for Cousteau. Obviously, at some point, the track has to end. But that’s why he made it so long as he did, to create an idea of something that constantly changes but always remains conceptually familiar.

Ah thanks for sharing, I love that track!