Generative drums with change every 8 bars?

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One thing I forgot to mention is that if you want more control over the sequence of patterns, that you can create a ring of random seeds which is chosen by the second loop.

A ring of random seeds are something that I use quite a lot in pieces as it gives a lot of control in terms of playing around until I get ‘random’ sequences I like, but also in being able to introduce some repetition when I want it. E.g.

use_bpm 127

seeds = (ring 234, 3453, 234, 3763, 1293, 3872, 1293, 33536, 234, 1293)

set :rnd, 1000

live_loop :drums do
  use_random_seed get :rnd
  
  8.times do
    
    sample :bd_haus if one_in(3)
    sample :sn_dolf if one_in(5)
    sample :drum_cymbal_closed if one_in(2)
    sleep 0.5
  end
end

live_loop :controller do
  sleep 31
  set :rnd, seeds.tick
  sleep 1
end

Though, this may not be what @soundwarrior wants

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