As an old fella (75 in July), I play at a lot of rest homes, cafes and open air markets where the clientellle
can often be my age. So I tend to learn songs from my youth and teenage years, as well as more contemporary stuff like George Ezra and similar.
As a consequence of the above, I sometimes need oldtime songs such as waltzes etc in 3/4 time. Today as I started on a song with 3/4 time, I scanned through my drum vst and found nothing suitable. But there was a rhythm in 4/4 time that sounded good. Then I spotted the time signature in GP on the top right. Never having used it before, I thought, what the heck, nothing to lose! So I changed the 4/4 number to a 3/4 number, and hit play. To my amazement, the drum vst started playing in a 3/4 waltz time! To check whether I was dreaming or not, I changed it back to 4/4, and it went back to four to the bar. How the vst knew to change its timing just because of a change in GP, I canât begin to figure out.
To some folks on the forum, this will be old news, so sorry if Grandma has to learn to suck eggs. But to me, it was astounding and yet another example of how clever and easy to use Gig Performer really is.
Congrats to the developers, and keep up the good work. Here are some beers and glasses of wine for you all.
Thatâs the whole purpose of host sync. When you configure your drum plugin (or a delay plugin for that matter) to sync to the host, then the rate of the plugin will be driven by the host BPM and the host meter as appropriate.
First, i am amazed too, to read that this actually should work.
(I use the same plugin as Al does -> Strike 2 from Air Music, and i also found already the lack of 3 based timings in the collection of the drum patterns).
So what i donât really understand is how the plugin can follow a time signature of 3/4 and play/sound right, if the used drum pattern is based and composed for 4/4? There must be dropped one 1/4 in order to properly hit the âoneâ each time⌠is there a âtriggerâ signal that causes a bar to start over each time?
And what happens if i would raise the time signature for a 4/4 pattern (in the plugin) to 7/4 (in GP)?
Where will the missing 3/4 come from? Is it then just another truncated 4/4 that will be appended to the 4/4?
Hey Erik. Great that we both learned something about Airstrike 2 when used with Gig Performer. Iâll be keen to see what else you might find out when you experiment with time signatures. Perhaps others will try out other drum VSTs also to see what happens. Iâm still trying to accept how easy it was to get that waltz timing just by changing one number from 3 to 4đ!
Iâve just discovered a slight problem. I set the waltz 3/4 to a tempo of 170 BPM, and I saved the rackspace at that tempo. However, when I change rackspaces and then come back to my 3/4 waltz, it doesnât remember itâs 170 bpm. Not sure if itâs the rackspace or that I fiddled the time signature. I canât find a midi command for tempo setting, so any further help will be gratefully received.
Solved. I was setting the tempo in the main working window instead of the rackspace properties window. Also had to tick âSet time informationâ and âSync with external clockâ. All good now
Iâve just been experimenting with my auto bass (Ujam Virtual Bass). It doesnât seem to change to the 3/4 rhythm the same way that the drum vst did. There are a couple of dedicated 3/4 bass patterns in amongst the offerings, but they donât fit that well. I guess in the end itâs up to the plugin producer to allow syncing to take place. Is there anything else I can do to get the bass patterns fitting in better?
Didnât they hold basic ballroom classes at your school when you were about 10 years old? I know I was too shy to ask girls to get up. Anyway, we just learnt a waltz (123, 123, etc), or a foxtrot (1234, 1234, etc). And rock is often only 4/4 after all, maybe set to an 8 or 16 beat. But there are still 4 beats in the bar. So if you drop one out, you get a waltzđ.
Lots of rock music in 3/4 out there, including one of the greatest progressive songs, Close To The Edge by Yes. That song doesnât sound like itâs in 3/4 but if you actually count it, it is.
