"Pay close attention to Roland Kuit for this kind of thing. But here are a couple of ideas (I probably got them from one of Roland's patches anyway):
1. To make a drum ALWAYS hit on a certain beat (like the downbeat) and also hit on other beats, but only sometimes, connect some clock source (for the
downbeat) and a clocked random gen (for the sometimes other beats) to an "OR" logic module and trigger the drum with the logic output.
2. To make a drum do a random pattern, but do the SAME pattern four or eight times, and then switch to another random pattern eight times etc., use the random pattern generator. To select new patterns, run your clock through a 1/32 or 1/64 clock divider, and patch this slow clock signal to the input of a clocked random generator, and use the output of the random gen to select a new random pattern from the Pattern Generator every four or eight cycles.
A variation of #2 - fiddle with the pattern generator and find several random patterns that you like. Now connect a set of Constant modules ("Level" knobs) to the inputs of a four-way or eight-way switch module.
Now use some kind of slow clocked random signal (like in #2) to randomly select between these patterns.
A further variation - instead of random pattern generators, use the "event" buttons near the bottom of the Sequencer modules to make your own patterns, but randomly select between several different sequencers."
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