REF / Music API / Rhythm

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Music Theory with Tonal

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Rhythm offers a small collection of utility functions for describing rhythm. We adopt the same convention as Tonal.js for patterns. A pattern is a binary array (ones and zeros) where 1 represents a rhythmic event (a whack) and 0 represents a rest. Many of these functions are implemented by Tonal but collected here for convenience.

API

These functions reside within the Rhythm namespace.

Function	Description
`Arp(index)`	Return one of 15 (0-14) predefined 16-step patterns. Used in synth arpeggiators.
`Euclid(steps, beats)`	Generates a Euclidian rhythm pattern.
`Binary(a, ...)`	Create a rhythm pattern from a number or concatenation of numbers in binary form.
`Hex(a)`	Create a rhythmic pattern using an hexadecimal numbers.
`Random(length,threshold=.5)`	Create a random rhythm pattern with a specified length.
`Probability(thresholds)`	Create a rhythm pattern based on the given probability thresholds.
`Rotate(pattern, steps)`	Circularly rotate a pattern right.