Ok i'm doing
d1$"bd ~ ~ ~ ~ , hh hh [ hh hh sn ]}"
I was expecting bd on the first beat, but instead it's a bunch of hh before.
I'm trying to do something like this
[bd ~ ~ ~, hh hh hh hh sn] === hh and sn in 5 beats polymetric.
together with something like hh in 7/12 over 2 bars long. Or something arbitrary of that sort. Is that possible?
Maybe it isn't as clear as it can be:
bd ~ ~ ~ ~ === 4 beats
hh hh hh hh sn === 5 beats, so the snare wraps around
so the output should be (bd,hh) (~,hh) (~,hh) (~,hh) (bd,sn) (~,hh) (~,hh) (~,hh) (bd,hh) (~,sn)
Also i want to pair it with something arbitrary like a 7/12 over 2 bars long
from first principles (using only stack [,], cat <>, fast *4):
d1 $ s "[<bd ~ ~ ~>, <hh hh hh hh sn>]*4"
there may be other (shorter) syntax for this in mininotation. [EDIT] yes:
d1 $ s "{bd ~ ~ ~, hh hh hh hh sn}"
[technical remark] Semantics of { } notation seems a bit tricky: it's implemented in the parser (Tidal/ParseBP.hs at main · tidalcycles/Tidal · GitHub) as it's not purely semantical: it cannot be defined of type [Pattern a] -> Pattern a (the type of stack and cat) . The implementation of { ... } needs syntactical properties of its arguments: resolve_size is a property of TPat a, not of Pattern a.
I guess i was wrong about
It turns out that once tidal is started, when i reevaluate the sequence, it starts from where it left off. So it isn't (bd,hh ) as the first output, even if i use the panic or hush command before reevaluating.
Is there anyway of evaluating a 13/3 ? How would this look?
starts from where it left off.
it starts from where the clock currently is (it keeps ticking). try with
d1 $ s "numbers/2" >| n (slow 2 $ run 4)
(evaluate this and hush, in random order)
What do you mean by "evaluating a 13/3" (Can you write it in classical music notation)? Perhaps this?
d1 $ s "{bd ~ ~ , sn hh hh hh sn hh hh hh sn hh hh hh sn}"
Yes that would be correct, but what if it was played against a 4/4 pattern?
After looking through t he documentation it's probably something like this
Good question. Tidal is very good in creating polyrythms.
I'm quite new to Tidal. For polymeters you found out to use the modulo operator, interesting.
I have one tip that helped me and might help you: if you want to visualize patterns you can use the drawLine command
For example your patterns ( I simplified them a bit):
d1 $ s "bd ~ ~ ~"
d2 $ s "{hh hh hh hh sn}%4"
can be drawn like this (changed the sound names to numbers for readability):
drawLine "0 ~ ~ ~"
drawLine "{1 1 1 1 2}%4"
It will display this in the console:
|0 |0 |0 |0 |0 ...
|1111|2111|1211|1121|1112 ...
Perfect polymeter!
When I read your question I thought about the iter (and iter') command (which shifts the pattern every cycle), it does something which looks a bit similar (compare measures 2, 3, 4 and 5 with the same measures above):
drawLine (iter' 4 $ "1 1 1 2")
|1112|2111|1211|1121|1112|2111
But it is not a real polymeter.
Happy coding!