Drumbutt v.1 (11/2/09)
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so, what we have here is a first stab at building a "drum machine" that sounds sort of human.
drumbot.exe is a DOS app which randomly "composes" a drum score, and then by deftly arranging 
a boatload of samples, creates a .wav file "rendering" of this score. by "sounding human", 
we mean that the simulated drummer has two hands, maintains a good approximation of the beat, 
and doesn't always hit a given drum with the same velocity or in the same place.

*DOS/Windows only, sorry. my programming skills are pretty limited as it is.
*drumset consists of bass drum, 2 toms, a floor tom, and a snare. maybe i'll add cymbals someday, i dunno. 
*as it stands right now, if you don't like the result you get, you'll have to re-run the program with the 
  same parameters to hopefully get a better result. Next version will likely generate several variations on 
  a theme, so you can pick the one you like. I'm also thinking of adding some functionality to edit the 
  machine generated score, or let the user create their own. 
*also in the works, maybe...a bassline generator to go with the drums. might be kind of neat.

download and unzip that .zip file somewhere. in the folder you'll see a bunch of textfiles (these are the 
drum samples in ASCII text) and the drumbot.exe itself. double click the drumbot.exe, it will ask for 
some parameters, and then create a .wav file in the same directory. pretty simple, really.

thoughts, comments, etc--> colbecklabs @ gmail.com