time signature

[Holly Scott]

can anyone explain the basics of the different time signatures?

I always just use 4/4 coz thats what reason is set to but sometimes if you have a sample that wont conform to 100bpm if you tell recycle its a different time signature (even if you know its 4/4) you can get it down to 100.

anyway that of course fuck up the drums which are still on 4/4 so you change them to 3/4 or whatever............

but then i still cant sem to get it right. anyone got any pointers??

hope this makes sense

cheers

 

[Hi-Lo]

can anyone explain the basics of the different time signatures?

I always just use 4/4 coz thats what reason is set to but sometimes if you have a sample that wont conform to 100bpm if you tell recycle its a different time signature (even if you know its 4/4) you can get it down to 100.

anyway that of course fuck up the drums which are still on 4/4 so you change them to 3/4 or whatever............

but then i still cant sem to get it right. anyone got any pointers??

hope this makes sense

cheers

4/4 means four quarter beats per measure or bar.

One-Two-Three-Four, if you count it out loud. Those 4 beats may get slower or faster individually if you lower or raise the bpm, but bottom line, beats are still an equal subidivision of a length of time (one bar).

2/4 means TWO quarter beats per measure or bar.

One-Two.

Three four, sometimes called triplet timing, is placing 3 beats where there had been 2 before; instead of One-Two, its..

One-Two-Three

Notice how that is different- in 4/4 time, each beat is 25% of a bar, in 2/4 each is 50%, but in 3/4, its 33.3%. That means the sound of a 3/4 beat is going to sound different than a 2/4 or 4/4 in common usage.

Other time signatures work the same way... 5/4 just means five quarter notes per bar, and so on.

Thats all the info u need...now u gotta go and figure out what the time sig of your sample is or at least what you want to make it.

 

[sYgMa]

Well, most beats are in the 4/4 time signature... some artists do go in the 3/4 or 6/8...

For a good example, listen to NAS - If Heaven Was A Mile Away... that's a good example of a 3/4 beat.

 

[wizard]

well if u have the sample in recycle make sure if u save the time sing at3/4
u must have reason a 3/4
if u save the sample at 90bpms
then reason has to be around that tempo
then just mess around wit the time stretch and the fine in ya nn-xt or what ever u are using
as for the time signiture
it all a count
listen to what sig said check out that nas heaven a mile away thats a 3/4