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Comment by quadrangle | Hacker News Reader

This is mediocre. It's not nice sounding, just sounds like a MIDI drum machine with mediocre sounds and mediocre beats.

Does anyone know of good freely-licensed (CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA) MIDI drum beat collections? That would be much more valuable, and everyone could just open them in Hydrogen drum machine and use them with all free software. That would be worthwhile.

A set of YouTube videos of crappy drum machine things is not great at all.

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You're being really harsh on this site. It's just a collection of drum loops from Youtube, which vary greatly in quality. For instance, this one is actually analog drums played by a pretty decent drummer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulV4KTNIbU

"Mediocre" is not an extremely harsh thing to say. And drum loops on YouTube is a lousy way to have drum loops. They should be available in MIDI if they're just MIDI stuff, and should be downloadable. Taking MIDI and rendering it to YouTube where playback and tempo are particularly fixed… c'mon. I assume the point of YouTube is a mix of being able to show ads (not sure, I block ads) or just be there because it's popular.

Honestly, I'm trying to be critical not just of the site but of the idea that Hacker News folks think this is notable. I don't know how to express that distinctly, given that much of the points are the same for both critiques.

It seems to me the author's intent is mostly for people to use for backing tracks for them to practice with, not necessarily sampling for production. Though, honestly having a bunch of beats sorted out like this could be handy even just for a starting point/inspiration.

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