Shifting notes in a running pattern

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Dear Elektron wizards,

I wonder whether it’s possible to create a “moving” pattern with the Elektron’s sequencer (have Digitakt, Digitone and Model:Cycles at hand).

This is my idea: I have a kick on 1, 5, 9, 13. If the track gets played the second time, the position of the kick should move in a controlled manner, eg. on the second play the kick should be on 2, 6, 10, 14, on third on 3, 7, 11, 15 and so on.

I know, I could do pattern chaining to create this but what I’m really aiming for is a randomized way of doing this. Do you have any idea if this is somehow possible?

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Hi

This is easily achieved with conditional trigs. In your example you set the first kick (1,5,9,13) to 1:4. second kick (2,6,10,14) to 2:4 and so on.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Have fun

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Ah, yes, that makes sense!

Any idea to add some kind of randomness to it? I want to create a pattern that’s somewhat unpredictable.

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You always have the option to put a percentage instead of 1:2 or 2:4 etc. It’s the same encoder, which you turn to the left to the given percentage you’d want the trig to play 30%, 57% … should be in the same video above.

Hope that helps

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in step rec mode, func+left/right shifts the pattern’s steps, but it can’t be automated so you’d have to do it manually on the fly.
you could use a PROB of <100 for the randomness.

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Forgot to mention, you can have percentages over the entire sequence or single steps (trig lock), for even more variation.
Good luck

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That helps… A bit! I want to create a pattern that’s somewhat unpredictable but I want it to be exactly four trigs every time

And another question: If I change the probabiliy of a trig to say 33% on four trigs. Are those 33% random for every trig or do they share the same randomness?

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You can also use the midi arp with a midi loop.
LFOs can also be used in different ways: targetting slices of a samplechain or a sample, changing pitch, …

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random for every trig

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You could use retrig to achieve a shared probability % for all 4 kicks but I cant think of a way to have more than 2 choices per track. You could have step 1 set to 50% with retrig to create the 4 kicks, then set step 2,3 or 4 to underlined pre to create a random variation of 2, more than that I dont know maybe some clever use of neighbour trigs?.

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I think you could also achieve something going in your direction by carefully combining probability conditions for specific trigs with the ‘pre’ (i.e. a trig plays when the condition for the previous trig was present) and ‘not pre’ conditions for subsequent trigs.