Hi, brand new here, can someone point me in the right direction in how to create triplets?
I wanna use the Digitakt for producing reggae and need to learn this.
Thanks I’m advance!
…triplets are…123…123…instead of 1234…1234…while the measure is still 4/4…
so…i guess u still wanna stay in overall 4/4 measurement…since most of all popular music as we know it does this…
so…triplets within strict quarters…are NOT 2 4 8 16 32 64…
BUT…6 12 24 48…
retrig is ur friend…hold a trig…arrow up…turn on retrig…pick one of those triplet counts…and let go…
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digitakt can do it… nah worries.
Retrigs are an option, I think pushing the microtiming to ± 1/48 works too.
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Welcome to the community @kerrygatt
Yeah, microtiming is your friend. Not hard once you get used to it
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If you set Track Scale to x3/4 you’ll have eight note triplets.
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Won’t you be in 3/4 time then, and they’re just eight notes?
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No! In classical notation, with a 3/4 scale the rythm will be 3/8 or 12/8, etc
To set a 3/4 pulse, you should set the number of steps to 12 24 or 32 with a 1/1 scale.
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3/4 scale means that each beat’s is 3 steps long instead of 4. Hence a triplet.
1/2 is 2 steps instead of 4
1/4 is 1 step instead of 4
2 x scale is 8steps instead of 4
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…er, guys…do u read before u post…?
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This sounds correct to me from what I know,
think they have just called it 3/4 as in 3 beats in the same time it would take to do 4 beats
time signatures are a totally different thing
Sorry man but don’t think you are correct, think you are talking about time signatures,
Or maybe I’m not understanding the way you explained it
For clarity:
A 3/4 time signature refers to the number of beats per measure.
A triplet refers to the number of notes per beat (i.e. a 1/4-note triplet would have 12 notes in a standard 4/4 measure)
A triplet can exist in any time signature, 3/4 or 4/4.
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In the scale menu on Elektron machines, 3/4 is a multiplier, not a time signature.
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that is correct, i stand corrected !
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or in 7/8 or 9/16 etc. the triplet takes the value of one count of the scale (i.e. 1/8th notevalue in a 7/8 scale, or 1/16th in a 9/16 scale). So in stead of one 1/8th pulse on a count, there are three pulses with the same total length as one 1/8th pulse. How to do that on Elektron devices a don’t know yet, because I have a Digitone for just one day. On Roland TR8-S it is very easy to do, so I imagine that it should be no problem. At least you could record your beats in LIVEREC mode, disable quantize and play it yourself.
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How can you have triplets in a 3/4 time signature, when the pulse is three beats per measure? I thought you could only have tuplets that don’t match the pulse of the time signature
It doesn’t matter how many beats per measure are indicated in the time signature, as the actual beat is what is divided into three. So if you have a 3/4 time signature, there would be nine 1/4-note triplets notes per measure (three 1/4-notes x 3)
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You can have 8th note triplets 16th note triplets 32 note triplets etc,
What You are talking about how many times you can have them in a measure
super confusing discussion… so is it possible? 