Nice. Looking forward to the generate-a-hit-song(tm) site. The closest thing is probably https://www.beatstars.com/. This is the site Lil Nas X bought what would end up as Old town road.
the very first piece of computer gear i ever bought was a midi adapter. there was an Amiga on one side of the room, and a MIDI capable synth on the other side. i was introduced to Soundtracker, and then went all giddy when I was told the synth could work with it if that missing device was used. i think i was 14, and saved up my lunch money to buy it. Never did make anything worthwhile with it, but it sure was fun.
I love this, I was recoding music casually with some friends and didn't have any of my normal supplies on friday and this would have been a godsend. terrific work for when you're in a pinch. Committed that url to memory like a phone number in 1995!
What fascinates me about drum machine in general is, every time I fill the whole bar with random stuff, as long as it's relatively full and have both low and high ends, it'll sound good, it'll groove, and I can groove on it for hours. I wonder if anyone else feels the same. Love the idea that human body instinctively loves to groove!
a beat is a beat, they just aren't always dance-able. some of the examples of AI/ML generated music has always never sounded "good" to me though. it's clever that you can have a computer make music in the realm of $X, and that's cool as a programming accomplishment. at the same time, you can give someone like me all of the $mostRad gear, and what ever i bang out will sound "not good" either. while i can play instruments, i'd never call myself a musician. that's how i consider these ML/AI generated music "types" in my head.
This is great and simple.
This would be so much better if you could create a 'playlist' of the individual patterns.
eg, as simple as a text list: 1,2,2,2,2,1,3,4
(and made even more powerful with the 16 track premium version)
I'd really like to be able to find a sort of virtual Launchpad (e.g., upload my samples, trigger them with a click, quantize/snap to the beat, etc.). Thought this was going to be like that.
Something I love about Hacker News is how the fun corners of the internet like this always manage to find their way to the front page and I don't even need to look for them.
I'm eternally grateful that there's a website that's similar to early Reddit (what I remember about it at least). Although with an older demographic on average - I guess whoever was on early Reddit is older as well now. Of course HN has been around for forever as well.
When it comes to "Swing", one thing that would be really nice is if you could have each quarter note broken into 1/8 note triplet cells. For example, for me the most intuitive way to represent a standard jazz ride cymbal pattern is like so:
[x--][x-x][x--][x-x]
Each square bracket is a quarter note subdivided into 1/8 note triplets where the x is struck and the - is not struck.
You can represent swing without triplets but it is way less natural and intuitive to me.
Most drum machines just have the swing % setting. You can kind of emulate what you want by have 12 or 24 beats long patterns (not sure that's the case with drumbit)...
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https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
Many thanks, this is great.
I'm preferring use offline tracker like Milky Tracker instead.[0,1]
[0] https://milkytracker.org/
[1] https://milkytracker.org/downloads/
(awesome app btw enjoyed)
Very impressive overall.
You can represent swing without triplets but it is way less natural and intuitive to me.