I've just had a play with this style.

Here are my thoughts....

1) The time signature is set to 3/4.

2) The Realtracks are all 3/4 Realtracks.

3) The Realdrums chosen is a 4/4.

What I hear is a 4/4 instrument, in this case drums, being generated as 3/4. I've played around with this a few times in the past and it creates some very interesting effects.

The strength of 4/4's four beats = strong, weak, medium, weak. My experience is that when BIAB generates a 4/4 pattern in 3/4 time, the process involves various ways of truncating the "strong, weak, medium, weak" pattern. I've always taken this to be because BIAB's RealInstruments are snippets of recordings and not just individual beats.

This means that some possible 3/4 truncations of beats and their strengths are...

strong, weak medium

weak, medium, weak,

medium, weak, strong,

weak, strong, weak

The really interesting thing is that when these truncations are placed side by side, some avant guarde rhythmic patterns occur.

examples...

strong, weak, medium | weak, strong, weak | medium, weak strong | etc...

Normally waltz beat-strengths are Strong-weak-weak, so the above patterns confuse the ear.

This is what I hear when I solo the drums.

Now, these 4/4 drums might be intentional with the style or they might be in error and a 3/4 pattern should have been chosen.

Because I tend to focus on the instruments when I listen to music, I hear this style as 3/4 with an interesting cross-over type of drum background.

If someone who listens to this focuses on the drums, however, I imagine they would hear a mish-mash of uncomfortable rhythms.

Regards,
Noel

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