going weird with the Korg PSS-50 and Alesis Midiverb

The Korg PSS-50 is mostly pretty dull. The preset patterns are bad and not fully programmable, and there's no way to sync to anything. But it has three things that partly redeem it. First, the selection of chords (12 total) is fairly good, significantly better than most auto-accompaniment boxes. Second, the patterns are sort of programmable in that the different parts (drums, bass, accompaniment, fill-in) of the preset patterns can be freely combined to make a new pattern. This includes combining parts from patterns that have different time signatures or quantization. Experimenting with this can lead to some pretty interesting results. Third, chord and pattern changes can be programmed into the sequencer every bar. The patterns are two bars long, so effectively you can use the first half of one pattern and the second half of another. It's possible this way to get unusual time signatures.

Here's another video of the PSS-50 (with the same cat but no Midiverb).

Brilliant! I was thinking it was perfect cat video music, and then I realized it already had a cat in it, innit.

Wild!

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sounds great