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[EDMTips]

Hope you enjoyed this one as much as I did! Has this opened up some inspiration for you, too??

[hjiraoussama]

My mind stopped when VR dropped that track

[raksipulikka]

With little programming knowledge this can be easily automated ;) Less than 20 lines of python code will do the trick.
Following code will create a midifile with similar effect.

from midiutil import MIDIFile

# MIDI note numbers, C major
notes = [60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72]
offset = -0.01 # modifying this will change how fast the timing diverges
sweeps = 100
noteduration = 0.1

# midifile
midi = MIDIFile(1)

# track, time, tempo
midi.addTempo(0, 0, 100)

for j in range(sweeps):
for i, pitch in enumerate(notes):
# track, channel, pitch, time, duration, volume
midi.addNote(0, 0, pitch, j * (1 + i * offset), noteduration, 1)

with open("arpeggio.mid", "wb") as output_file:
midi.writeFile(output_file)

[TwinTailsRyu]

polyrhythms are so damn satisfying man

[JDDavid]

I have to say, while I might not go make a piece like this, I am glad I watched. It was so fun watching how stoked you were getting while making it (after the tedious part). That's a big lesson right there: savor the joy of experimentation and discovery! Or more generally: don't forget to have some fun along the way. Thanks for sharimg your delight; it goes so well with the knowledge bombs.

[manueldupuy]

Excellent job, the sounds are on point, and even the weird reverb and detune effect he did when switching beats. Can't stress enough how much I liked this video. Much love from Mexico

[aidanviets]

Nice thanks!! So much potential behiend this! Expacially in psytrance

[judgeedwards]

Awesome video and explanation Will! When I saw the original my mind was blown, but it actually seems decently simple!

[sketchywav]

Virtual riot is truly a genius with music production and sound design. He’s on a whole other level.

[hoaisontran]

it's so cool man. Just nomal sound become all of the rythyms of all track. I f*king loveeee itt

[jellycoding]

This was a big thing in the Reason community for like 15 - 20 years ago. And I remember I saw a video for about 10 years ago when someone did this in FL Studio. I think the FL Studio guy created a poly bar with the right length for every note and then just duplicated the bar. He just wrote how many copies he wanted and hit Enter. If I remember correctly.

[andreasnyman]

Usually I'm sort of annoyed how most things are explained as arpeggiator, now IT IS a simple arpeggiator with (possible) an extra parameter... and it's gets a whole dang video. Amazing.

[AdventureDriver]

Thanks.
A slightly faster way is to change the order in which you make the polyrhythm.
1. First complete the lines in an octave/chord.
2. Select all those lines and copy to new octave.
3. shift right the new octave the number of notes in the chord.
4. select the first notes and shift left the number of notes in the chord.
5. repeat from 2.

[V_A_N_C_E]

You can use the midi stretch handles at the top of the piano roll to do this a lot quicker

[nokturnal]

As soon as I experienced VR's video for the first time my mind was blown, hadn't heard of polyrhythms like that before. I even put the song on repeat while elevated and slept with it on lol Seeing you recreate it was such a fun watch, I love your enthusiasm and was smiling for pretty much the entire video 🤣 11/10, thank you for showing us the process! <3

[HexxedOfficial]

yeah, this was beautiful dude. Love it!

[Sigmaairav]

This method of polyrhythm is fascinating. I actually incorporate polyrhythms in my music frequently

[Juno_Leigh]

Thank you so much for your exceptional explanation of this concept. I'm going to put this to very good use I hope :D

[migats]

The reason why Virtual Riot used multiple channels for the polyrhythms is because Serum only has a polyphony of 16 channels (8 in your case). Otherwise it just cuts the first note when another note is played

[stormywaveonyoutub]

Thank You for the video, the demonstration, the explanations ^_^