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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

i liked that a lot. some of those high frequencies were getting to me as well.

so, i assume there was a lot of knob twiddling to get that. is thst correct? (it’s not self-generating, right?)

have you ever tried to play bass along with that sort of thing?

I play bass to this stuff all the time and plan to do more in the next few days.

it’s quite a bit of knob twiddling and finding sweet spots. Parts are kinda generative. Lots of free running LFO’s and eg’s on the oscillator, the filter and the Mimeophon. It’s really fun exploring sounds with this setup
 
Okay, dude, how am I supposed to dance to that? Huh?

It’s odd that given the realm of options 4/4 is “the” dance beat for so much music. Like the metric system seems easy because we use 10 numbering digits. What if everything was hexadecimal? What’s a time signature analog for hexadecimal? 13/16 time?
 
It’s odd that given the realm of options 4/4 is “the” dance beat for so much music. Like the metric system seems easy because we use 10 numbering digits. What if everything was hexadecimal? What’s a time signature analog for hexadecimal? 13/16 time?

Hexadecimal is not a time signature, it's a number system that uses base 16. Since 16 divides evenly by 4, I'd say it's a good way to describe all "rational" music time signatures, that is, any time signature with a 2,4,8,16,32,...etc. in the denominator.

So 13/16 is 13 16th notes long, and 13 in base ten is D in base 16. 16 base 10 is written as 10 base 16. So the time signature 13/16 can be written using hexadecimal as D/10.

4/4 base ten is still written 4/4 in base 16.

:)
 
Hexadecimal is not a time signature, it's a number system that uses base 16. Since 16 divides evenly by 4, I'd say it's a good way to describe all "rational" music time signatures, that is, any time signature with a 2,4,8,16,32,...etc. in the denominator.

So 13/16 is 13 16th notes long, and 13 in base ten is D in base 16. 16 base 10 is written as 10 base 16. So the time signature 13/16 can be written using hexadecimal as D/10.

4/4 base ten is still written 4/4 in base 16.

:)

My nerd trap worked.
 
Lol @ this being done by May 2021, let alone May 2020...although I shouldn't say that, there is a chance we can be out of this by spring / summer next year. For those that don't agree, answer me what will magically happen to end this that isn't a vaccine?

Not saying this won’t be changed a lot for a long time... but in my state in Aus we had 0 new cases for past few days... probably won’t change everything but at least hopefully relax enough by end of May that getting together for band mates won’t mean cops called and fines issues for violating isolation stuff...
agree though all this will be a very long haul. :(
But that’s more time for us to get time out to create stuff right?? And talk over hexadecimal :)