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Re: Groove Pizza

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Post by matthewh806 »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #26

If you like this concept and like to dig deeper there's Xronomorph [1]. Don't love Xronomorph's U.I. but it is an interesting concept with some deeper mathematical background around the concepts of "perfect balance" and "well-formedness" of rhythms. The site has some papers and links on those concepts, quite the rabbithole. 1: https://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm

Thanks for this! I had no idea this existed and am quite intrigued by it :)

I quickly run into a segmentation fault of macOS though when trying to choose a sample...

Re: Groove Pizza

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Post by colejohnson66 »

bhrgunatha wrote: post #21
qPM9l3XJrF wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a musician I'm surprised how much I like the sound of placing beats in a practically random way https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=xFlGGuYki& Wish there was a "randomize" button that would let me input a probability that any given beat should be present and then randomly decide on/off for every node, I feel like that could be an interesting way to explore beatspace.

Western music (for want of a better term) is so deeply rooted in even 16th notes that almost anything sounds acceptable. I think being limited to 3 curated instruments per pattern helps a lot too.

It’s not just the 16th notes, but that there’s 16 of them. 16/16, or 4/4 if you will. And the adoption of the tresillo (meaning “triplet”, but it’s 3+3+2) and the many variations you can do to it, it’s hard to make 4/4 sound “odd”. It’s possible to do (such as by changing the snare and kick drums to not be “correct”), but popular music tends to avoid that.

Re: Groove Pizza

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Post by visualphoenix »

Pretty cool. Groove Pizza is definitely approachable and easy to use. I wish the samples sounded better.

It reminds me of the Funklet web sequencer, which has some powerful features but is very unapproachable. I like that Funklet has an extensive catalogue of recreations of famous beats.

https://funklet.com/ (examples)

https://machine.funklet.com/funklet.html (blank)

Re: Groove Pizza

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Post by PhillyG »

This was so much fun and so easy to have a play around with. I found it to be incredibly intuitive - as someone who isn't musically talented but is curious enough to just try stuff out

After trying out the "rock you" special beat, I quickly managed to make what I think is a common rock drum beat - what I would describe as: dum ch dadum dum ch. Then while that was going, I started playing around with that beat - different variations of it, without pausing it at all. It kinda sounded like I was jamming! I carried on playing with it while it was playing the beats and had quite a bit of fun changing the beat and making a drum solo. Unfortunately I was just changing that one pizza - would be cool if you could set it to record it as you change the pizza. I went back and made a cool beat with four pizzas so I could share it here :)

https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=3ge...

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