accent-groups

accent-groups accents the first note of each group, counting notes rather than watching a clock.

Additive rhythm builds its meter by grouping a fast pulse (3+3+2, 3+5) instead of dividing a slow one; Ligeti’s Desordre drives the idea to its edge, hammering 3+5 and 5+3 accent groups against each other until the barlines shear apart. Here successive note-ons cycle through your group lengths: the first note of each group is raised to at least accent, and the rest are held down to at most rest. The shaping is a floor and a ceiling, not a rewrite, so a downbeat you genuinely hammer keeps its force and an inner note you genuinely brush stays soft.

No clock is involved: only the order of note-ons matters, so the grouping breathes with your tempo, rubato and all. Note-offs pass untouched and do not advance the count.

Parameters

The group lengths are bare arguments, at least one; the list cycles in the order written.

Parameter	Type	Default	Range
groups	integer arguments	required	each 1..=16
accent	velocity	112	1..=127
rest	velocity	64	1..=127

Example

miditool.kdl

input "Roland"
output virtual="miditool Out"

accent-groups 3 5 accent=112 rest=64      // ONE two three ONE two three four five

Run a scale evenly and it comes back phrased: the 3+5 grouping emerges from dynamics alone.

Try this

Place the accents on a grid first. Gated onto the tresillo, the counted groups land on the surviving onsets and the two patterns interfere:

tempo 100

euclidean-gate k=3 n=8 beats=0.5
accent-groups 3 3 2 accent=118 rest=72

The euclidean-gate decides when notes sound and the groups decide which of them speak up; since eight onsets carry a 3+3+2 accent cycle, the loud ones migrate around the pattern instead of nailing it down.