Beatbox beta

Experimental drum machine which uses vocalization to select synthetic drum hits which best match beat-boxed sound.

Currently uses a combination of MFCC, SpectralCentroid and ZeroCrossing measurements to analyze and match the timbre of the sounds.

In super-alpha-beta state! It may or may not work on your setup.

Requirements

• SuperCollider

• Some sort of external microphone and audio interface. I use an Edirol FA101 when building this. I haven’t got it working well with the Mac’s internal sound

• OSX – unless you want to make the GUI stuff cross-platform.

Keyboard shortcuts

• F1
  Record mode
• F2
  Preview recorded sound
• F3
  Jamming mode
• Space
  Start/stop sequencer
• Return
  Add hit to seq (while playing)
• Backsp.
  Remove hit (while playing)
• Up/Down
  Select channel
• Left/Rt
  Crossfader control

TODO

• Add analysis of amplitude envelope, only uses timbral analysis at the moment which while quite good it needs amp.env. comparison to be really intuitive
• Add ability to scan and add samples via GUI, from any location
• Improve doc
• Lots more…

Contact me

Via Github

Licence

Released under the GNU General Public License.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA