Speed Up & Multiply

The * operator speeds things up, and it works at every level of a pattern.

Speed up a single element

strudel
sound("bd hh*2 rim hh*3 bd [- hh*2] rim hh*2")

Here hh2 makes the hi-hat play twice as fast, hh3 three times as fast.

Speed up a whole sub-sequence

strudel
sound("bd [hh rim]*2 bd [hh rim]*1.5")

The brackets multiply as a unit - the whole [hh rim] becomes faster.

Speed up to crazy rhythms

strudel
sound("bd hh*32 rim hh*16")

At *32 the hi-hat becomes a high-frequency "pitch = really fast rhythm".

Multiply inside brackets, multiply outside

• hh*2 - multiply an element.
• [hh rim]*2 - multiply a sub-sequence.
• *1.5 - fractional multipliers work too, for a "swung" feel.

TL;DR

• * speeds things up by the given factor.
• hh*2 = that element twice as fast.
• [a b]*2 = the whole sub-sequence twice as fast.
• Values like 1.5 and 32 are all fair game.