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2019-01-10T16:29:48.023Z
I'm defining drum loops like this (thanks @ericcervin for the suggestion):
;; Lists of name, num-beats, instrument and amplitudes, 0=mute
(defloop hats 8 hat [0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5])
(defloop kicks 8 kick [0.7 0 0.2 0 0.7 0.6 0.2 0 ])
2019-01-10T16:30:34.023400Z
Code here: https://github.com/ericclack/overtone-loops
2019-01-11T12:28:40.023900Z
I was thinking about something like this: (defloop hats (4 2) hat [0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5]) where (4 2) means 4 beats in a bar and the data is in half beats.
2019-01-11T12:31:04.024100Z
Or (defloop hats (4 1/2) hat [0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5])
2019-01-11T12:31:15.024300Z
Or (defloop hats 4 hat [(0 0.5) (0 0.5) (0.05) (0 0.5)]) where each tuple represents fractions of each beat. So you could also have (defloop kicks 4 kick [1 1 1 1]) for basic on-beat kick.
2019-01-11T21:29:35.024600Z
I think I'd use something like (defloop hats 0.5 hat [0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5 0 0.5])
2019-01-12T16:32:59.025Z
That's the clearest format I think. I need to include the 4 too as that's the number of beats in each bar.
2019-01-13T19:25:29.025200Z
Here's where I am at the moment, I decided to try both syntaxes 🙂 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/overtone/1nJi8UIduJk/_7e07QywDwAJ
2019-01-13T21:55:35.025400Z
Hmm....Thinking about how this is laid out on my drum machine, a copy of a TR909. I guess including the 4 is useful to specify what is the "scale" on my machine. Set that to 3 if I want to work with triplets.
2019-01-18T16:51:53.036500Z
super delayed response, but you might get some mileage from some of my repos and posts: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/basic-beat https://github.com/gilesbowkett/arx https://truthindustri.es
2019-01-18T21:08:47.037400Z
Hmm...just saw something I didn't see the last time I was in your github. Stared for later.
2019-01-21T18:05:08.040300Z
Thanks @gilesb I'll check those repos out.