Understanding Swing Trigs

Yes go to the Swing Trig page and put Swing Trigs on just the “+” of the bar. Then set the swing value to 80.

Put your sequence trigs on 1 + .

This will slide the “+” in to the Ta position of a 1 Ti Ta triplet. Drop the Ti step and it will give you a text book 1/8th note swing ala trad jazz.

Then you can dial it back to taste.

Make sense?

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Not at all!
I don’t know what are “+, Ti, Ta…” :no_mouth:
I speak Octatrack only. :content:
Step numbers?

Something like this TITATUTU? Couldn’t find the +. :thinking:

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1 e and a is how you vocalize 16th notes. This is the equivalent of four steps on a 16-step step sequencer. The “and” can be shortened to + so it looks like 1e+a

What he’s saying is to take every 3rd trig (out of four…) and make it swung with 80%. So steps 3, 7, 11, 15. Now play that and set some trigs down on 1, 5, 9, 15 and you’ll hear a classic swing like you offered in your own examples!

1 ti ta is a way to vocalize a triplet.

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:coffee: Thanks both! Got it.
Tested. It matches scale 12/16 x3/4.

We don’t count like this in France.
Now I have to understand why 80% instead of 66%.
:coffee:

66 is 16th triplet, 80 is 8th triplet (am I getting this right?)

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Apparently yes, seems to match with x2, but I can’t calculate it.

Afaik, 1 step is 24 ticks.
96 ticks per quarter note.
Triplets are 0, 32, 64
8th is 48
64-48 = 16

Testing wirh another track with microtiming :
50% is 0 ticks
66% is… ticks? (Apparently between 7 and 8)
80% is… ticks ? (Apparently 16)…

Not sure if the swing offset formula is 48x X% - 24 = ticks
Works with 50% : 48 x 0.5 - 24 = 0
66% = 48 x 0.66 - 24 = 7,68
80% = 48 x 0.80 - 24 = 14.4
Something wrong. :persevere:

Ooooh, never thought of that.

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Yea I didn’t bother with the math just listened and saw the results