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I know this is a niche feature but I think it's an important differentiator (and something that I love After Effects for).

I'm probably the only person who's excited to code up my own Arpeggiators and Rhythm pattern generators...

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I don't even know what an Arpeggiator is, sounds cool though.

If you play a chord into an arpeggiator, it... well, it arpeggiates it. In other words, it plays each note of the chord individually in a particular rhythm (e.g. 16th notes) in a particular pattern (e.g. up/down, up, random). Very, very common in electronic music.

Cool I had no idea, I'm about as musical as... umm, yeah i've got no analogue.

Does it get scaled in specific patterns or is random ok?

Patterns, random, fast, short, whatever. Most packaged arpeggiators have all sorts of knobs to twist.

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