By stochastic, I mean it randomly ticks on only one arbitrary beat per measure
This is similar to some popular exercises for improving your internal pulse. E.g. having the metronome drop out for a number of bars while you’re playing.
My prediction:
On its own, it would be hard to derive the underlying pulse. Even a trained musician would take a little while (my guess is 4+ measures). In the context of a song it would probably have little to no effect.
I could probably test this if anyone’s interested
I am. Let us know your findings if you end up testing it and if you have a good way of people testing it out for themselves, that would be cool.
I feel like its something I should be able to code out quick but for some reason I’m drawing a blank
Here’s a super rough demo: https://metronope.bickio.me/
Yeah I’ll code this up today and send you a link
Mocked up a super rough example to try this: https://metronope.bickio.me/
Well, something like this is actually quite popular in modular synthesizers community. They have one type of modules called “Clock generators” which generate gate/trigger signals for given BPM (Like 1/4 or 1/8 or 1/16 rhythmic pulses for 120 BPM for example) and another type of modules called “Bernoulli gates”, which basically allow to specify probability of input signal going to the output. Those beat-skipping metronomes with configured probabilities are then used to trigger notes or samples or whatever. Also, this is modular where you can modulate almost everything, including BPM itself, but that’s a different story… Stochastic music approaches like this are often called “alleatoric music”.