accent

[pSyDeViAnT]

forgive me if this has been done to death...
1. is there a way to turn off the accent across the whole electribe in one swoop, across all patterns in one hit, i know you can go to part edit and and select accentsw then turn off for each drum part and synth part, but it only turns off for selected pattern,

[Aciphecs]

forgive me if this has been done to death...
1. is there a way to turn off the accent across the whole electribe in one swoop, across all patterns in one hit, i know you can go to part edit and and select accentsw then turn off for each drum part and synth part, but it only turns off for selected pattern,

Well, by default the accent is triggered for each step in a pettern. This, in essence, makes the accent not noticable- like it is off. Just don't mess with it and you won't notice it.

I personally use accent in all of my tracks. It can add a lot of dynamics to a track and can make up for the non-velocity sensitivity of the electribe.

[pSyDeViAnT]

i agree , i know the accent can be a great feature to liven up the sound if used with subtle tweeks,
but i feel in the tracks i make sounds can be a little muddy when there is a lot going on , (psy trance) and i found that dropping the accent sweetens the sound a touch and makes it less crashy if thats the right words to use,
most likley cured with new tubes i expect as im running the standard rubys at the mo,
i tend to make a starting pattern with the accent off then save, then use the same pattern and modify it , add a bit more to it then save to +1 then +2 and so on till a whole heap of nice flowing twisty patterns are made then sow them up in song mode to create the finished track,\but all patterns created from the initial settings from the first pattern i make,\
im quite happy doing it this way and i guess new tubes will fix the crashy sound i sometimes get , i just assume its the accent causing the prob which is why tend to turn it down/off to start,
im pretty new to electribes and i most defo love this little blue beauty, not to sure if im going about the track making the right way but it gets the results im looking for, im sure as i get more fluid with the machine the accent and swing will be my friends and used a lot , ill get new tubes and leave the accent standard till i start to feed it in my tracks

[Aciphecs]

I understand, but don't think there is a way to turn the accent off for the whole machine. You know that the level knob will control the amount of accent also? Turning the level all the way to the left (when the accent part is active) will turn the accent off for that pattern.

[Dr Feelgood]

I understand, but don't think there is a way to turn the accent off for the whole machine. You know that the level knob will control the amount of accent also? Turning the level all the way to the left (when the accent part is active) will turn the accent off for that pattern.

Co-sign with what Aciphec's stated. You can also manually turn off the accent setting for each individual part in the editing matrix.

[gotBASS?]

Yeah I somewhere have a "blank pattern set - no accents and accent switched off for every part" file saved so i can load it with the card slot (Using a xD to SmartMedia adapter).

I'm not at my EMX at the moment, but encountered some confusion a while ago, relating to the arp, or possibly relating to triggering hits via MIDI, resulting in the programmed beats being triggered at a normal volume, and the additional ones being super-loud, which (unless I'm mis-remembering, which I may be) boiled down to the fact that the accent part was switched on for the part (i.e. AccentSw was switched on in the part menu), even tho the accent lights were de-selected for every step. You should be able to verify if this is true fairly easily tho.

[rebotnick]

Sorry to bring up an old thread. I've been experimenting with accent, and no, I don't think there's a way to turn in off globally. You can turn the level down as mentioned for each pattern, or load a set of premade patterns.

I think gotBASS? is right, when using the arpreggiator on drum parts, the part will play at the accented level, regardless of whether you have individual steps accented.

If you have no steps accented in a pattern, but turn the accent level to full, the overall level drops. So it seems like when you accent a note, you're actually lowering the level of everything else, not boosting that individual step. Or something, I could be wrong.

I like using the arp on drums so I don't think I'll ever use the accent feature. You can accent manually in a few other ways, by having identical parts but setting different levels or by motion sequencing the level and then editing (you can do things like having a Strong-Weak-Med-Weak kick this way) .

[FranzK]

I don't have an accent! I speak perfect American English.

ha ha - could you motion sequence the accent knob to fake a "sidechain compressor" sound that we hear these days? (too much?)

[Aciphecs]

You can't motion sequence the accent, but you can motion sequence the level (volume) and essentially sidechain or duck a particular part in a sound. I do this all the time with basslines so they don't get muddy when a kick hits