Tips and tricks for creating Polyrhythmic randomness

i7x · 2014-05-24T14:15:43.000Z

hi all and just got an octatrack and i am just getting my head around it .

My interest is in creating polyrhythmic and unusual evolving loops and i know thats something this and the monomachine can do well ( i got one of those the day before yesterday !)

I am trying to create text file i can call up to remind me of all the tricks and stuff i should learn and with that in mind are there any tricks people found that totally freaked them out.

here i have to understand parameter locks ? so they are ste events but can they be shifted forward or backwards or modulated so they hit different sounds on different steps ?

Stuff like sample start point modulation and loop point modulation are also of interest .

Love to hear the modulation tricks you found that really worked well.

Allerian · 2014-05-24T14:44:14.000Z

Use different individual track lengths. Also, don’t be afraid to turn off live quantizing.