Building complex rhythms with Tessella

Part 1 of the "video manual" for my new Max for Live device Tessella. Get Tessella: https://meyer-devices.com/products/te... Read the Manual: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/068... Other videos about Tessella:    • Acoustic rhythm synthesis with Tessella is...   Learn more about the theory behind this device: Clarence Barlow, On Musiquantics, p 44 https://clarlow.org/wp-content/ uploads/2025/05/On-MusiquanticsA4.pdf Marc Evanstein, “The Great Rhythm Tree” https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Qv5nqDHFN1E TOC 00:00 Intro 00:15 Metric structure - time signature, tuplets, ratchets 08:55 Density, velocity, and rotation 16:30 Indispensability 34:00 Custom time signature 35:00 Chance and swing 37:25 Play length 40:50: Duration and duration variation 41:43 Outro