Polyrhythms on a Digitakt 2?

[benway]

As someone said above, the most straightforward way of doing ternary/duple polyrhythms is to set the ternary tracks to 3/4 or 3/2 speed and calculate the number of steps accordingly.

For quint and septuplets I think the only way is to use micro timing, there are a couple of previous posts on this

Quintuplet Swing Values For Your Elektron : )

So I was sitting with Attack Magazine’s tutorial about quint- sext- and septuplet swing. Made me think about what the values for such a groove would be in the Elektron sequencer. Since the idea of quintuplets is to cram five notes in to a space where “normally” there would be four 16th notes - we can’t do that on an Elektron sequencer without raising the speed. Which can sometimes be inconvenient or unwanted. So what I did was that I recorded the different timings on three different midi tracks…

Different thing but might be interesting

Also fwiw I’ve had this pdf downloaded from someone I think on this board - can’t remember who so can’t credit, was a long time ago - with a table of micro timing values for various scale lengths, might assist but I’m not 100% sure I really get it (edit - found the source here and it turns out the reason I didn’t get it is because it’s doing something different, giving microtiming values for various euclidean patterns, still might be of interest):

ParsedDocument235577475.pdf (138.5 KB)

If you know there are 384 ticks per step you can probably work it out from there, although it’ll always be an approximation given that it’s not divisible by 5 or 7. Tbh I mainly just roughly work out about where onsets should fall and go by ear from there on Elektron boxes.