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Drumbit – Online Drum Machine

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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!

(awesome app btw enjoyed)

Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes.

once it's a mistake, twice it's a pattern

Hence, the "millennial whoop"

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.

Repetition with a hint of unpredictability is what triggers pleasure.

Sometimes repetition with predictability also triggers pleasure, like Krautrock and motorik beat

More toys: https://dunkadunka.com

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.

Every time I see something like this I immediately remember all the fun I had so many years ago with Soundtracker for Amiga. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Soundtracker

Sweet old memories...

Enjoy :-)

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You almost make my eyes water... :)

Oh man, really?!?

Many thanks, this is great.

Thanks!

Epic! This thing also opens songs from modarchive, so there are thousands of tracks to listen too...

Yep, this Web-app is cool! But, sadly, it overload CPU & RAM.

I'm preferring use offline tracker like Milky Tracker instead.[0,1]

[0] https://milkytracker.org/

[1] https://milkytracker.org/downloads/

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!

Hehe, back in college 10 years ago I tried to do the same with vanilla JS. Might not even load http://www.onlinesampler.com

Still works, and I love that it's "100% flash-free." :D Those were the days.

Fun, but I think we killed it. :D Can you describe your hosting setup?

This is dope. Really a pleasure to play around with. A+

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.

Wow the swing is a little on the crazy side, so is the compressor.

Very impressive overall.

Should combine this with an AI drum machine https://beatz.ai

Nicely done!! This is mindlessly fun. I comically created something halfway decent sounding. I might have found my calling. ;)

Nice, love the house demo especially.

Really good execution, I’m impressed.

The equalizer visualization is really great. Smooth and responsive, even on mobile.

Nice one. Was fun playing with it.

feature request: Being able to download what you make (in audio format)

Tai Ko needed.

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