Poly Madness (Techno on Circuit Rhythm & Minilogue XD)

Techno by Marc the Darc

This is my entry for the Hardware Jams fecesbook group, week 17, Polywotsits challenge.
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Solid 3rd place in the vote, yay!

Greetings jammers!
And for your jamming challenge this weekend, we would like you to experiment with Polyrhythms, and/or polymeter - we can discuss at length what the difference between these is… (I’ll share some images below this comment), but basically Poly rhythm relates to conflicting rhythms within the same bar (e.g. playing triplet crotchets over four crotchets - a crotchet is also known as a quarter note in the US).
You can choose to have many polyrhythmic/metric (hereby known as… Polywotsits!) elements in your jam, or just one. You can go with any genre you like…
Please give an explanation in the description of your video which parts you applied polywotsits to.

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About the production:
The Polywotsits are 3 notes of a basic G minor triad with a M1 organ sample. I've used the micro steps of the Circuit Rhythm to achieve perfect timing spread on the notes across the grid.
The root is 5 notes on a 15 step bar, sync'ed to the base 1/16 step tempo.
The 3rd is 6 notes on a 16 step bar, but sync'ed to a half speed 1/8 step tempo.
And the 5th is 3 notes on an 11 step bar, sync'ed to 1/8 triplet step tempo.

The rest is a fairly straight forward 2 bar techno affair, with the bass coming from the Minilogue XD playing the root note.
All in I've spent perhaps 1½ hour from start to upload finished. Definitely one of my simpler, and faster projects.
In retrospec it would've been easier and overall more efficient to poly meter/rhythm parts of the beat, which would make chord changes and melodies much easier to work with.

Gearbox:
Korg Minilogue XD
Novation Circuit Rhythm
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd gen
Ableton Suite 12
FabFilter Q3
Toneboosters Barricade 4

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