Recreating a rhytmic pattern using Karma + Step Sequencer

[guruteo]

Hi everybody.

I am trying to recreate the rhytmic pattern of the cowbell in I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston.

I'd rather not use sequencer mode. I wouldn't either use a sample of the whole pattern, beacause I want to be able to change the beat on the fly if needed.

I've tried to obtain the pattern fiddling with the default karma GEs, but I haven't been successful.

This is the idea I came up with. In combi mode, I set up Karma to play a simple 16th pattern. Then I created a simple MOD-7 program which uses only the PCM osc to play the cowbell sample. In order to recreate the desired pattern, I set up the common step sequencer to lower the amp level at proper times. In this way the unwanted notes generated by Karma are muted.

It nearly works: 80% of the times it is working fine, but sometimes I can't get the step sequencer to sync correctly with karma. When this happens, I step one combi up and then one down to reset the program. After one or two tries it usually starts working again. I don't understand why this happens. Do you have any idea? Thank you.

[QuiRobinez]

you need to do 2 things:

1. set note trigger (trigger tab in karma) to 1st and the quantize checkboxes on that page to on.

1. Set keysync on for the common step sequencer (from memory you have to do this with an LFO as an ams source for the sequencer reset function, but it could also be that there is a checkbox for keysync, just look on the common page to do that).

after that they will Always be in sync.

[guruteo]

Thank you. I will try that.