Hey,
Mutable-Instruments “Anushri” synthesizer has a nice built-in drum pattern generator (“generative sequencer”).
I did steal the essential code and made a renoise tool out of it, looks like this:
The main Bass, Snare and HiHat knobs control the density or amount of hits in the pattern
Swing is just a shortcut to the renoise groove settings (controls all four sliders at once)
It’s more fun to listen than to look at it
Differences to “real” Anushri are:
Velocity values are handled in a different way, in my tool you can adjust the impact of the ‘importance’ of a hit freely with the small “vel” knob
the “acc” knob is an addition by me, turned left it will emphasize the notes on the beat, turned right the notes on the offbeat
NOTE: When renoise is in edit/record mode the tool will only write pattern data from the current playback position to the end of the pattern. It’s possible to record variations etc. that way (sortof).
MI Anushri is licensed GPL 3.0, therefor my tool is too.
Happy jammin
Thanks for the positive feedback. I attached a new version with updated midi mappings (old version had one mapping that would throw an error, some mappings missing and felt a bit unresponsive.)
I installed this, forgot about, and finally tried it today. Holy damn, it works so smooth and fast! Flawless as near as I can tell. And a great way to jump-start a beat.
Considering it, not quite sure tho. You can allways put the tracks in a group afterwards, the tool finds the tracks by their names, so it doesn’t matter where they are. That said it would be very simple to insert them into a group when they get generated, but i’ld have to make a config option for it … so, maybe (:
When you use instrument that is drumpack you have to use columns not different track.
your tool can recognize more collumns and works them with but behaves weird when you delete two remaining tracks it created, then it creates them again and use them. hard to explain, better experiment yourself.
