mccI would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video
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josef@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?
Carl Muckenhoupt@mcc @jk Another possible piece of the puzzle: arpeggios are used a lot in chiptunes, because they were used a lot in NES games, because the NES was incapable of playing three notes simultaneously. So, there's a way that GenXers could have come to intuitively associate arpeggios with the most advanced electronic device in their house.