Arturia BeatStep Pro MIDI/Analog Controller and Sequencer Kit with CV/Gate Cables (Black) - Manual (Page 69)

6.1.2.2. What it does
Here’s an example: What if you wanted a pattern with this mixture of time signatures:
Instrument Pad 1 Pad 2 Pad 3 Pad 4 Pad 5
Time signature 3/16 1/4 5/16 3/8 4/4
The Pad 5 track is longest, so we’ll use that as the timing reference for our discussion. Here’s
how those tracks would look in the MIDI Control Center:
But here’s a visual representation of how they would sound during the first bar:
And during the second bar:
The second loop, Pad 2, is highlighted as a rhythmic reference. It plays on quarter notes 1,
2, 3, and 4, and Pad 5 will play on beat 1 every time.
But the other instruments will continue their shorter loops: Pad 1 will play its cycle of 3, Pad
3 will play a cycle of 5, and Pad 4 will play a cycle of 6. They will play at different times in
relationship to each other for quite a while.
In this example it will be 360 bars of 4/4 time before the first bar is heard again!
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