@mcc i've always wondered why arpeggios with delay are universally synonymous with the imparting of factual information. you see it everywhere, in documentaries, video game scores, etc. maybe the repeating patterns are kinda like a clock signal for your brain to latch their infodump by

@jk If I had to make a guess, I'd say that arpeggiators were an "advanced" synthesizer technology in a critical window of time when a great deal of the educational content consumed by Gen X and millennials was being produced, so it made sense for that educational content to use arpeggiators if they wanted to sound sciencey, and so now we've all got that association. But this theory will make less and less sense as millennials age out. Do Zoomers/Alphas have this association? If so, why?

@mcc theyre probably in the tail-end of it, by which i mean that D-50/M1 marimba arpeggio which you hear behind explanations of the lifecycle of reptiles, or descriptions of chemical accidents

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