Cynos Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Yes, there are psy-tracks that don't follow the usual 4/4 signature, as some Jikkenteki or Ubar Tmar stuff. Are there more tunes like these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenation Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Could you give us an example? Beacause even if the track is break-beat or something like that, its still 4/4. I cant really think of any other time signature used in IDM.. 3/4 for example is iirc Waltz, one-two-three|one-two-three But if you have any examples (of for example "Ubar Tmar stuff") please post as Ive never heard any before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancenonZENsedance Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Snakey Shaker by Hallucinogen starts in 4/4 rhythm and then, quite casually, changes to 3/4 rhythm. The change happens at 2:17. It changes back to 4/4 at some point towards the end egain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb820 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Komondor's Pangea has melodic phrases that work in 7/4 followed by 9/4, kind of sort of. Or maybe more like 15/4 followed by an extra beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQb8oIQyN0 The underlying time signature is 4/4 but the melodic phrases are broken up. It kind of plays tricks with your head when you hear the natural end of the melody and it sounds like there is an extra beat especially given the kick fill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynos Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 But if you have any examples (of for example "Ubar Tmar stuff") please post as Ive never heard any before I was referring to this track and these ones too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ae2rL2VyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqteX6mMl0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenation Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 ^ Those all seem to be 4/4 signatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Ubar tmar check this very good music http://www.discogs.com/Ubartmarcom-Macrometasomakosmos/master/391268 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 It's quite common for tracks to have 12/8 sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynos Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 ^ Those all seem to be 4/4 signatures. There are parts with 5/4 signatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jikkenteki Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) 12/8 as a time signature is just a way to write 4/4 with 16th note triplets without putting the term "triplet" into the notation. When I was in music school one of my instructors liked to say that 12/8 was basically the "musical snobs way to notate 4/4 16th note triplets". There are numerous alternative ways to notation just about anything time signature-wise, but I was taught that it makes more sense to go with the simplest and clearest version. I will guarantee that 99 out of a 100 dance music artists writing pieces like this in their software are using 4/4 with triplet quantization and not 12/8. For my tracks not in 4/4 (that I can remember off hand) The Long Walk Home: Something New 5/4 Stepping Forward 7/4 Flights of Infinity: Symplicity 15:07 - 19:16 section is in 5/4 The End of the End is in a cycle of 3 measures of 6/4 and one measure of 8/4 The Beginning is at the End: Self Destructing Mechanism is in 5/4 until 7:49, after which it is in 4/4 As mentioned already, Ubar Tmar makes a lot of use of non-standard time signatures. Simon Posford does on occasion as well, although more so in Shpongle than his other projects ("...And the Day Turned to Night", among others, is in 7), in addition to his slick shifts between straight sixteen notes and triplet 16th notes and vis-versa in 4/4 time signatures. Edited August 3, 2014 by Jikkenteki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampersand Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 12/8 as a time signature is just a way to write 4/4 with 16th note triplets without putting the term "triplet" into the notation. When I was in music school one of my instructors liked to say that 12/8 was basically the "musical snobs way to notate 4/4 16th note triplets". There are numerous alternative ways to notation just about anything time signature-wise, but I was taught that it makes more sense to go with the simplest and clearest version. I will guarantee that 99 out of a 100 dance music artists writing pieces like this in their software are using 4/4 with triplet quantization and not 12/8. For my tracks not in 4/4 (that I can remember off hand) The Long Walk Home: Something New 5/4 Stepping Forward 7/4 Flights of Infinity: Symplicity 15:07 - 19:16 section is in 5/4 The End of the End is in a cycle of 3 measures of 6/4 and one measure of 8/4 The Beginning is at the End: Self Destructing Mechanism is in 5/4 until 7:49, after which it is in 4/4 As mentioned already, Ubar Tmar makes a lot of use of non-standard time signatures. Simon Posford does on occasion as well, although more so in Shpongle than his other projects ("...And the Day Turned to Night", among others, is in 7), in addition to his slick shifts between straight sixteen notes and triplet 16th notes and vis-versa in 4/4 time signatures. Hey everyone, sorry to dig up a semi-old thread but I found this thread on Google and have been searching for some clarity on how to achieve this Posford "morphing" thing. I tried crossfading between two clips, but that was really messy and sounded pretty awful, and then I tried rearranging MIDI notes by hand but it's also messy and not precise. Does anybody know how that Posford morphing thing is achieved? Specifically I am thinking in Fluoro Neuro Sponge from about 1:00 to 1:35ish. Someone on another site suggested that maybe it was swing automation, but given that a lot of Hallucinogen stuff is from the mid 90's it seems doubtful that it's what Simon did. It DOES work in Ableton though, except you can't automate it, so you can't actually get it in a song which is really frustrating. If I set my groove pool to 8T and set all settings to 0% except Quantize, which is at 100%, then I get the correct triplet groove. As I move the Quantize parameter from 100-0% the sound occurs, which is generally pretty correct, though I think Simon actually changes the MIDI pattern a bit too. However, in Ableton you can only automate the Global Groove parameter which seems to do absolutely nothing sound-wise when I move it up and down. Does anybody know how to achieve this morphing effect then? There must be a workaround or something in Ableton, or maybe another method besides automating groove? Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djuna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Someone on another site suggested that maybe it was swing automation, but given that a lot of Hallucinogen stuff is from the mid 90's it seems doubtful that it's what Simon did. It DOES work in Ableton though, except you can't automate it, so you can't actually get it in a song which is really frustrating. If I set my groove pool to 8T and set all settings to 0% except Quantize, which is at 100%, then I get the correct triplet groove. As I move the Quantize parameter from 100-0% the sound occurs, which is generally pretty correct, though I think Simon actually changes the MIDI pattern a bit too. However, in Ableton you can only automate the Global Groove parameter which seems to do absolutely nothing sound-wise when I move it up and down. Does anybody know how to achieve this morphing effect then? There must be a workaround or something in Ableton, or maybe another method besides automating groove? Thanks everyone! What do you mean, that swing patterns weren't possible in the 90's? Swing is the most famous on the TR-909 and 808, and they're machines from the 80's! And tons of hardware sequencers can do that as well. I don't know how it's done in Hallucinogen tracks, but it can be done in various ways (hardware sequencer, sequencer of a drumcomputer/synth, midi, fading in/out of tracks with different rhythms, combinations, ...). Would like to know his trick too, since it's a pretty smooth transition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampersand Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 What do you mean, that swing patterns weren't possible in the 90's? Swing is the most famous on the TR-909 and 808, and they're machines from the 80's! And tons of hardware sequencers can do that as well. I don't know how it's done in Hallucinogen tracks, but it can be done in various ways (hardware sequencer, sequencer of a drumcomputer/synth, midi, fading in/out of tracks with different rhythms, combinations, ...). Would like to know his trick too, since it's a pretty smooth transition. Well I don't know if it was possible, I just thought that automating swing would be a newer technological thing. I mean I know drum machines have swing, but is it an adjustable thing? Like could you automate it somehow on a drum machine? Even if it's by hand maybe? It just seems complex to have pretty much every channel in the song shifting swing at the same time. Maybe he just did a lot of work that was a serious pain in the ass to achieve it. He's definitely no under-achiever. I'll put whatever work in that I need to in order to make this happen, but I'm having a rough time getting it right. The closest I've gotten so far is moving the MIDI notes by hand, which is still a little messy. Maybe he just did it by hand and had a ton of patience? Or maybe there's a mathematical way to do it. Maybe if I was super analytical about it I could divide my grid up in the right way. I'm not sure. A real brain bender, this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djuna Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Not at all, it exists in drumcomputers 35 years now, this article is maybe an interesting thing to read. How I dissect that part of Fluoro Neuro Sponge: until 1'21" it's 3/4. After that you can hear the hihat going from a more swing mode pattern to a normal 4/4 pattern, starting 1'27". Also from 1'21" to 1'27", a bassline in 4/4 is slightly fading in, while the previous bassline is fading out. You can hear it around 1'23", where the basslines kind of collide together. The lead is another thing, sounds like it's going 1 bar sooner to a 4/4 rhythm... That's at least my guess, could be wrong of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jikkenteki Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Regarding the Hallucinogen shifts from triplet to straight time, years ago I read an interview with Simon Posford where this was addressed. If memory serves me correctly I seem to recall comments about some sort of morph function in Logic (I didn't own logic at the time and never bothered to look into it) that shifted the triplets into straight 4 count notes or vis-versa. Also I know Principles of Flight did much the same thing on their first album, which I seem to recall was made in Cubase, so I know it is possible there too. Not much help, but I can say from personally experimenting with it years ago that "swing" likely isn't much involved in the process. But I could be completely wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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