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.
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)...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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(awesome app btw enjoyed)
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You can represent swing without triplets but it is way less natural and intuitive to me.
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Sweet old memories...
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https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
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Very impressive overall.
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