odd time signatures

[vonstirlitz]

Does anyone have any efficient hacks/workflow for quickly programming odd time signatures (5/4, 7/8 etc)?

At the moment, I am mainly playing with step lengths (and it is great how easily you can dial in different lengths for each track), but I also read that changing groove will attain the same results. I havent quite got my head around how that would work, however, without risking desynchronising tracks. Would be interested to see what others are doing. 

Cheers

[chapelier fou]

I guess it depends on what you have in mind.

If you want a 5/4 bar that lasts the same duration of a 4/4, I'm not sure it's doable. Unless by chance there is a Groove setting that fits, but that's unlikely.
If you want a 5/4 bar that lasts 5/4 of a 4/4 bar, then you just have to use 20 steps (or 10 steps with a Groove value set at C ?). In conjuction of this you can use BRK 110 or BRK 120 etc so everything remains well organized in pages.

[skylab001]

I was trying to figure this one out as well. I really want to be able to write patterns in different time signatures. I messed about with groove settings but haven’t been able to wrap my head around it. With how powerful the NerdSeq is you’d thinking it was definitely possible.

[XORadmin]

Hey, by different time signatures you mean something like half speed, double speed?

The brk commands together with different groove settings can give you a wide variation of (odd) time signatures. But then you must also be aware of what you are doing.

In a future version i will add standard settings per pattern (and track) for different clock dividers / multipliers.