Drum Beat Programming
Comments discuss tools and techniques for creating, programming, and manipulating drum beats and rhythms in music production, including BPM assistance, time signatures, beatmatching, randomization for natural feel, and critiques of rhythm accuracy.
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You can create some sick beats by clicking and releasing the mouse button in a rhythm
This is really awesome. They cut the entire song into one-beat segments of sound and video, and then categorized each beat by similarity to other beats in the song, and then after each beat there's a random chance that, instead of playing the next beat, the playback will transition to a different but similar-sounding beat from elsewhere in the song.More info at the author's blogpost: http://musicmachinery.co
Really.. it sounds like someone just hit play on two songs at the same time to me. Beatmatching is trivial.
Is this to make remixing/sampling easier for other artists? Or do some people actually prefer drumless?
You could just build off a metronome, no?
People sometimes can't even make backing tracks for improvisation that are in tune.
That might be because it's not longer too perfect. As far as I know little variations in timing are added to computer generated beats to make them sound better? That might be a similar thing?
i am actually a musician, the rhythm is important and a sequence of 16 notes at the same rhythm and the same tonal distance is too big to be a coincidence
Try it alternating/ varying musical time signatures.
No sense of timing or rhythm. Even an algorithm that adds a random delay to notes would make it sound more natural. I listened to previews of the album on iTunes and it sounds like crap.