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  • Euclidean Sequencing

    So here is the eternal question about Polyrhythmics and Polymeter.
    I'm including the Euclidean rhythms on the same confusing box. I don't have a Deluge but hope you can answer me this question. 

    So far it seems clear that Deluge can do Polymeter. Not only that, it is an electrical authority doing it. You have visual contact of all your polymeters within the 128 pads. Polymeter: different lengths for each track, these are playing in their individual loop and finally at some point they will meet together... 

    Polyrhythms is a tricky one. If Deluge can set different tempo BPM to each track, there you have polyrhythms. Now you will just need to make maths: a 3:4 polyrhythm at 30 bpm (the bar) will be achieved with a track going on at 120 bpm per beat and a second track at 90 bpm per beat. 

    For getting a 7:6 polyrhythm at the same tempo, you will need one track at 210 bpm and the second one at 180 bpm. Simple polyrhythms as 3:4, probably you can handle with the almost infinite zoom option that Deluge v3 has. But it would be very nice if you could set a different tempo per track.  (Can you do that on Deluge ???)

    Euclidean rhythms, I don't know why Deluge doesn't have this option, it seems too easy to include it into this awesome machine. if Deluge can play an horizontal sequence, let's say your kick track over 16 beats, it could play it in a circle over the pads (as the image below).
    Now it is just a matter of setup, 2 different values: the length and the n. of divisions per cycle. Anyway, you can do any euclidean rhythm in any sequencer manually, but again, Deluge seems a powerful music machine, this will set euclidean live performance to another level. 

    Thanks for your answer, if you have them, or comments.

    ps.. The image below is a Euclidean rhythm of 7 inside 12 beats. ps2.. if you don't want to do the maths for polyrhythms, there is this crazy metronome online: https://bouncemetronome.com/visual_metronome/visual_metronome_with_drum_machine.htm