Re: (idm) multi-tempo sequencers?

From public anemone
Sent Tue, Feb 2nd 1999, 15:08

§të¶ÌñTîmÉ lester wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:56:38 -0600 (CST) xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx writes:
> >On 01/31/99 12:33:40 you wrote:
> 
> >the only way i know of to do such a thing is to use an external
> >sequencer or drum machine, and record its output at one bpm into a
> >sequencer running at another bpm. you could also create a loop at a
> >certain bpm, sample it and then have it loop by itself against your
> >current sequence...then you could play other parts along to that loop
> >without listening to your sequencer's metronome...as for programs that
> >do this automatically, i don't think there are any...but perhaps
> >motu's freestyle would let you do something like that?
> 
> well i don't mean to cloud your art vision, but i've heard someone try to
> do this and it sounds like shit. why bother?
> 

i'm just answering someone else's question about how it could be
done...anyway, just because the person you know couldn't make it work doesn't
mean that someone else couldn't do something good with it...i'd be surprised
if autechre haven't done stuff like this...