[HN Gopher] The Infinite Drum Machine
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       The Infinite Drum Machine
        
       Author : based2
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2021-03-21 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (experiments.withgoogle.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (experiments.withgoogle.com)
        
       | globular-toast wrote:
       | It's funny, but hard to make anything sound good due to
       | inconsistent hit points in the samples. Even with a very simple
       | pattern nothing sounds very rhythmic to my ears.
        
       | searchableguy wrote:
       | That's neat. I found a tune that works for me within seconds.
       | 
       | How do I share it?
        
       | fctorial wrote:
       | There's no way to increase the row column count.
        
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       | varispeed wrote:
       | Sounds like they copied XLN Audio XO -
       | https://assets.xlnaudio.com/pages/xo/1.2/gui-screens/main_2x...
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       | They should at least mention what was the "inspiration". Not cool
       | Google.
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       | https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/xo
        
         | SquareWheel wrote:
         | Isn't this project older than XO? Commits go back 5 years.
         | 
         | https://github.com/googlecreativelab/aiexperiments-drum-mach...
        
           | smoe wrote:
           | XO was launched 2019
           | 
           | https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-
           | than-2-...
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           | Looks like the "inspiration" might have been the other way
           | around. Don't see a problem with that, all of art is built
           | upon each others ideas.
        
             | varispeed wrote:
             | Oh I didn't know. Thank you for sharing!
        
               | anon_tor_12345 wrote:
               | shouldn't you edit your comment to remove the passive
               | aggressive accusation?
        
         | qmmmur wrote:
         | The idea is hardly novel. http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT is
         | seminal in this regard and much much older.
        
       | jabo wrote:
       | Here's an opera music generator from the same site that I've
       | spent an embarrassingly large amount of time playing with:
       | https://experiments.withgoogle.com/blob-opera
        
         | jtbayly wrote:
         | Very fun. Thanks for sharing.
        
       | ic0n0cl4st wrote:
       | How will they make a drum machine spy on us?
        
         | tuckerconnelly wrote:
         | They can generate a hyper accurate personality model based on
         | your drum preferences.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Reminds me of FruityLoops.
        
       | finger wrote:
       | Doesn't work for me on iOS. Just says Loading when I open the
       | page.
        
       | andybak wrote:
       | > Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at
       | Google Creative Lab.
       | 
       | Pretty sure Cabbibo did something remarkably similar a couple of
       | years ago:
       | https://store.steampowered.com/app/694550/Audio_Forager/
        
       | bryan_cooper wrote:
       | If only there was a BPM readout, this would be stellar.
        
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