<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I once constructed a live setup in keykit to make laptop music on the fly with a live band. It's not easy to do well (you really come to respect how difficult it is to replicate the expressiveness of a traditional instrument). taptempo will work in a live setting, but there are a few tricks that help make it useable:<div>
<br></div><div>- You may want to compensate for latency (so that the computer doesn't come in on beat 1 +20ms or whatever your latency is). i.e. the phase for the beginning of the measure is shifted back by -Xms to compensate for latency</div>
<div><br></div><div>- I rigged it so that when you tap N beats (where N is the number of taps used compute the average bpm), the taptempo would automatically trigger some sort of sequencer module on the N+1 beat. Every instant is critical in a live performance context...</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Speaking of doing things efficiently, I preferred to have the taptempo take 8th notes instead of quarter notes. This made it easier to come in within a shorter amount of time (but still have a few taps to compute an average bpm).</div>
<div><br></div><div>~A</div><div><br></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Austin Huang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austinh@cs.brown.edu">austinh@cs.brown.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I once constructed a live setup in keykit to make laptop music on the fly with a live band. It's not easy to do well (you really come to respect how difficult it is to replicate the expressiveness of a traditional instrument). taptempo will work in a live setting, but there are a few tricks that help make it useable:<div>
<br></div><div>- You may want to compensate for latency (so that the computer doesn't come in on beat 1 +20ms or whatever your latency is). i.e. the phase for the beginning of the measure is shifted back by -Xms to compensate for latency</div>
<div><br></div><div>- I rigged it so that when you tap N beats (where N is the number of taps used compute the average bpm), the taptempo would automatically trigger some sort of sequencer module on the N+1 beat. Every instant is critical in a live performance context...</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Speaking of doing things efficiently, I preferred to have the taptempo take 8th notes instead of quarter notes. This made it easier to come in within a shorter amount of time (but still have a few taps to compute an average bpm).</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>~A</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>I have some some drum sample, step sequencers, and pattern saving patches if you want.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out : <a href="http://danomatika.com/software/rc-patches/" target="_blank">http://danomatika.com/software/rc-patches/</a></div>
<div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Andrew Faraday wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana"><div>Have you had any luck in building a step sequencer, by the way?<br>
<br>> From:<span> </span><a href="mailto:mr.spoon21@gmail.com" target="_blank">mr.spoon21@gmail.com</a><br>> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:26:47 +0100<br>> To:<span> </span><a href="mailto:james@4thharmonic.com" target="_blank">james@4thharmonic.com</a><br>
> CC:<span> </span><a href="mailto:pd-list@iem.at" target="_blank">pd-list@iem.at</a><br>> Subject: Re: [PD] Using Pd to play drums in a band<br>><span> </span><br>> On 14 March 2010 13:42, James Dunn <<a href="mailto:james@4thharmonic.com" target="_blank">james@4thharmonic.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Quoth Carlo Trimarchi, on 14/03/10 11:30:<br>> ><br>> > Not sure if this is the best way but it might help you. It uses [demux] from<br>> > the zexy library. Hit the spacebar to tap out a tempo.<br>
><span> </span><br>> Thanks for your interest (and also thanks to Andrew Faraday who<br>> replied directly to me), but I think these tapping methods are hardly<br>> working fine for me. Maybe it's me - I'm unable to tap at the same<br>
> time - but every tap it displays a different number. I have to think<br>> something else, maybe.<br>><span> </span><br>> Anyway, I'd like some starting point to implement a drum machine or a<br>> step sequencer. Maybe some existing patch or some particularly useful<br>
> tutorial or argument.<br>><span> </span><br>> Thanks again,<br>> Carlo<br>><span> </span><br>> _______________________________________________<br>><span> </span><a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at" target="_blank">Pd-list@iem.at</a><span> </span>mailing list<br>
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