@Vic – Thanks for your questions! I’ll try to explain as best I can.

1 – There are no hard and fast rules. A chord sequence ‘might’ work depending on what your other material is. In my experience, simpler melodic and harmonic lines cause the fewest collisions, though sometimes collisions are ‘happy accidents’.

2 – The delays aren’t tempo synced as such. The point is that the progressions move in and out of phase over a long period of time.

2b – The 4-bar-repeat selection is just to let you know the name of the preset I was using. If left at its default settings, it is 4-bars of whatever master tempo you’re using. I’ve clearly noted in the tutorial where I’ve adjusted the original setting to something else, in which case it is no longer 4-bars.

3 – If you have two delays of identical length – yes – they’d be in sync. I don’t have any delays in sync in the tutorial above, though. They’re at 10000, 8000, 4000 and 6000ms respectively.

2. Are the delays tempo-synced? Or is the point that you want to lose the beat?

2b. I don’t understand the “4 bar” repeat and how it goes with 10 seconds? Does it repeat 4 bars or 10 seconds? Or did you set the tempo so that a bar is 2.5 seconds and you didn’t tell us?

3. You talk about tracks going “in and out of sync”, but two of them have a 10 second delay, so it seems to me that are locked in sync.

I think there are some things you are forgetting to tell us.