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I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts

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dredozubov wrote: post #49
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I have only familiarity with western musical notation, and it too me a while to get there. Tablature and track notation (digital audio workstation) both were completely intuitive to me. Is there anything that argues for learning Western musical notation- IE, does it help express some things eloquently/efficiently/naturally? Every time I ask classically trained musicians (who started with a piano and a music book) the…

DAWs and tablature editors mimic musical notation anyway. I suppose replication over the bars lines can be done more easily in DAWs that in tablature editors, but I still wanted a tool to generate the part from the "blueprint" rather than copy-pasting and double-checking all over the place. What I want to do is to learn a bit more about Konnakol, which is the Indian musical art expressed in percussive syllables. I ha…

yeah, I have a zakir hussein track where he does konnakol and it's quite impressive.

Re: I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts

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Post by dredozubov »

jcpst wrote: post #51
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Thanks for commenting and reaching out, would love to know what you think of poly. I was learning Rust along the way, so there is definitely room for improvement. From the memory allocation perspective at least, I didn't paid it much mind as the practical applications are not that memory intensive. No clue what intonation pitch lattices are, but now I'm interested to learn!

I was having fun writing one liners with poly, leaving my file explorer open and dragging the output file straight into a Ableton channel with a drum rack set up. I also tried making a web UI with it via Yew. I got it all compiling and running in the browser, but the crate is all about that CLI. I would have to write a lot of the code that’s in the CLI file to call the create_smf function. It might be worth consideri…

Do you mind shooting me an email or opening an issue on github? I was thinking about doing the UI myself, but I wasn’t sure how to do make it nice for the end user. It’s certainly a good idea to rework the API to be UI-friendly.
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