Drumscript: A simple MIDI drum machine scripting language

https://github.com/tepreece/drumscript

by homarp • 3 years ago

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sshine• 3 years ago

⊥’tsh : a dependently timed drum machine language by Joachim Tilsted Kristensen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DdBnR1K4UU

sbrother• 3 years ago

That's an amazing name.

smcameron2• 3 years ago

In 2005 I made a MIDI drum machine program[1] that could accept ASCII drum tablature as input to varying degrees of success, either by loading from a file, or you could just paste it in with the mouse (either via middle mouse button[2], or right mouse + PASTE). At the time, mxtabs.net[3] had tons of ASCII drum tab, but it shut down a short time later (2006).

My program could try to re-factor these drum tabs to pull out common repeated patterns to be represented in my program's native format. It was a fun project. (I'm a much better C programmer now than I was then.)

[1] https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica [2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs

gregsadetsky• 3 years ago

Wow no kidding -- what a loss re: mxtabs!

https://web.archive.org/web/20050325042659/http://mxtabs.net...

Eternal thanks to archive.org

wkoszek• 3 years ago

It's awesome that you replied to this thread, because I was thinking about writing a program like this, and I'm happy that it exists.

Does it work on the modern OSes?

smcameron2• 3 years ago

It's linux only, and MIDI only, and it needs GTK2, but yeah, it should work on modern linux. You can use jack[1] to connect the midi output to a softsynth, or another drum software (e.g. Hydrogen[2]) or to actual MIDI hardware.

There's a video demo[3] of my program I made 3 years ago. The pasting of drum tab is demoed at 6:20 in the video.

[1] https://jackaudio.org/ [2] http://hydrogen-music.org/devzone/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqcNK6P1i8

misterbishop• 3 years ago

No disrespect to the author, but how do projects like this trend on HN? It has 5 commits all from the same day last summer. There's very little activity or engagement with the project to date. Something like this happens almost every week.

Blahah2• 3 years ago

Someone who isn't the author stumbles across it, thinks maybe HN will appreciate it, and is correct.

ChrisArchitect4• 3 years ago

except OP didn't just stumble, they submitted it a few months ago (with little interest)

ChrisArchitect4• 3 years ago

yeah, the instant upvotes are a bit weird. And the increase in dupes generally

homarp3• 3 years ago

it's an "Invitation to repost"!

jjulius• 3 years ago

And the increase in dupes generally.

Says someone frequently posting dupes[0][1], and even their own dupes[2][3].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296548

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078576

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254136

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254147

notRobot• 3 years ago

A project does not have to be active to be worthy of a post on HN, just cool.

tomcam• 3 years ago

How many commits over what period do you suggest before a project hits HN?

datagreed• 3 years ago

How does it standout from the countless MIDI sequencers out there? I don’t get it

madsbuch• 3 years ago

Should it?

I find it very inspiring reading through this. It reminds me of the breadth of programming.

type0• 3 years ago

Too bad it lacks "boing boom tschak"

pimlottc• 3 years ago

Have you tried pressing down the special key?

yoz• 3 years ago

I don't know what to do. I need a rendezvous.

glimshe• 3 years ago

Yes, it took my breath away so I needed some Oxygene

jerrysievert2• 3 years ago

amusingly, electric cafe became the snl "dance time" for Sprockets.

of course it was sped up and looped, but very identifiable.

rvcdbn• 3 years ago

would be great to put some examples in your README especially for those of us not so familiar with the concept

habosa• 3 years ago

If you think this is cool check out Orca, which I'd describe as a visual musical programming language: https://100r.co/site/orca.html

Spent a week playing with it last summer and it was a blast.

Blahah2• 3 years ago

Everything made by 100rabbits is beautiful and worth checking out

Drumscript: A simple MIDI drum machine scripting language

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