You can do 9/5 in FL, all it does is add an extra 16th note to each beat, which would otherwise be an x/4 meter. It's stupid really. This is what the piano roll looks like, with each dark grid line being a 16th note and each lighter line being a "5th" note:
It's really just 45/16, why the fuck anyone would ever want to use that meter is beyond me.
I really had no idea this many people are so clueless to basic theory. I learned time signatures in 6th grade band class, there's no reason you guys can't figure it out in 10 minutes looking at Wikipedia.
Feb-10-2011 23:47
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Mad for Brad
no it didn't.
I know it didn't really give us 9/5. It gave us "9/5". Hence why I said "whatever the fuck FL thinks 9/5 is" and "My friend figured out what it really was". You're not very quick on the uptake, are you?
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Originally posted by Kysora
I really had no idea this many people are so clueless to basic theory. I learned time signatures in 6th grade band class, there's no reason you guys can't figure it out in 10 minutes looking at Wikipedia.
I'm clueless because I'm not a musician. I'm a writer. I've got a whole bunch of theory for my own craft. You wanna talk about positive modal shading, deictic centres, transitive verbs and free indirect discourse? I'm your man.
But seriously, try throwing down a breakbeat in 45/16. Dangerously funky.
no i think you are the one that is slow. YOu are saying fruity gave you a time signature of 9/5, i'm telling you it didn't. You were the ones not sober. That piano roll is still not 9/5. Fruity didn't give you 9/5
Originally posted by Mad for Brad
no i think you are the one that is slow. YOu are saying fruity gave you a time signature of 9/5, i'm telling you it didn't.
Clearly my grammatical employment of "irony" was too subtle for you to comprehend, as were my clear statements that FL was attempting the impossible and that it was wrong.
There's giving people the benefit of the doubt and then there's not bothering to read posts properly because you're tripping over yourself in your haste to be a condescending prick.
Put your knowledge to some use and tell me if 6/8 War is actually in 6/8.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
FL still gave us "9/5" anyway. My friend did figure out what it really was later on, but what I do know is that the beat was ridiculously funky.
You must have been really drunk or using a special version of FL... Because even FL can understand time signatures lol...
You all seem to be missing the point.
the number on top is how many notes per bar. so 3/8 has three notes per bar. The number underneath means what SORT of note per bar (crotchet, quaver etc). So 3/4 means that there are three crotchet notes per bar. 3/8 would mean that there are three eighth notes per bar.
You can't have 3/5 or 3/9 because there is no such thing as note with a duration of a fifth or a ninth!!
