Using Reasons ‘Randomise Pattern’ option it would seem that as long as the pattern starts to repeat then it really doesn’t matter what the pattern is too much. Increasing the length of a random pattern from 16 beats to 64 still doesn’t seem to have much of an effect. The longer it s the more interesting it becomes but the less like a pattern it seems.

The question really is what gives some rthyum some swing, or funk and others nothing? I know that the basic swing beat, alternating between two sounds every 4 beats gives the maximum swing. The two seperate sounds each create their own space and the mind moves from one to the other with enough time between them, back and forth like a swing. The more sounds you bring in the more the mind jumps. Things to experiment with here might be:

• Many low sounds verses many high sounds? I suppose the depth and strength would make some stand out in a jungle of sounds. Lower sounds being more rhythmic and higher being more melodic (?)
• The maximum and minimum (i guess 2?) number of sounds. How many can the mind track in rhythms before it becomes just noise? I guess the types of sounds, how close together they are makes a difference here.