Odd Rhythms in Piano Roll

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Odd Rhythms in Piano Roll

I was wondering how I am supposed to pencil in quarter note subdivisions like groups of 5 and 7 into the piano roll. So far I can draw standard triplets and 16th valued notes, which seem to be standard quantize functions. I've been practicing 5 notes in the time of 4 16th notes, and 7 in the space of 4 so I want to start using them in my compositions. Any ideas?

Posted on Jan 8, 2010 6:19 PM

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Answer 1

Eriksimon

Level 6

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Jan 9, 2010 2:28 AM in response to righttorage

Set the *Snap Value* to Ticks, use the calculator and put the notes in the appropriate place. One 4/4 bar in Logic has 3840 ticks, so you can calculate the positions of your notes from that. So 4 16ths, or one quarter, is 960 ticks, so 5 notes will be 192 ticks apart each. 7 do not round off, but 137 ticks should be clouse enough.

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Answer 2

seeren

Level 4

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Jan 9, 2010 11:04 AM in response to righttorage

I'm sure you could do something in the transformer but here's another easy way:

Enter (5 or 7) ordinary quarter notes and trim the region so there's no blank space at the start or the end. Then option-drag the right edge to shrink the region down to the length you need (a bar, say). You could use this to make a groove template, too.

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