No messing round here, because I’ve got something huge. It’s a drum machine. I always fancied jamming along to some slick beats, throwing a few chords around, climbing the fretboard in a frenzy of off the wall improvisation, but I never really got round to it because the whole effort sounds empty without a backing beat. I’ve tried drum machines before but they were either too complicated or far too simple, that’s why I created the drum machine for TaBbed.
I’ve kept the whole idea simple, while offering enough complexity to have fun with it. Essentially you have your drum board, place dots on each instrument using your stylus, when the time line hits the dot, the drum sounds. You can adjust the speed using the speed control, the lower the number, the faster the beat (I will improve this in later versions). You can also mix this up by bringing in the sequencer, the sequencer is held on the top screen, each channel has its own drum board, independant speed and can be repeated as many times as you need. You won’t enable the sequencer unless you hit the play button, the sequencer will play each channel as many number of times as you specified and will loop until the stop button is pressed. Easy as that, for maxiumum effect connect your ds up to your amp or powered speakers, you neighbours won’t know what him ‘em.
I will be making more changes to the drum machine as versions go by, namely loading your own drum samples as well as saving and loading sequences. If you have any suggestions or improvements then give me a shout. Enjoy.
December 14th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Hi, it’s me again !! Sorry for being a fan. ^^
The drum is fun, but the sound on DS Lite isn’t loud enough.
I found some little bugs in this function.
First one, if we place some red dots, we can place one over the last case.
Second one, is that we can place red dots under the “tambomrine”.
Third one, the + and the - of the speed are inversed. If we click on + the rythm decrease and increase on the -, the speed number in the table is inversed too.
Fourth one, the icon “back to the menu” disapear when we click too much dot.
And the last one, we can place two dot at different places by clicking in a case.
That’s my shout back ! ^^
Keep going !
December 14th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks Eiji, it’s nice to have a fan xD
The sound is a problem, the DS just isn’t loud enough but there is nothing I can do about that, external speakers are a must I’m afraid, but plug some in and you’ll have a blast. Thanks for pointing the problems out for me. Some of them such as the + & - buttons are my poor programming and will get fixed when I add a BPM counter. The dots under tamborine are intentional, users will be able to add 8 drums when I get loading off SD implemented. The others are errors, thanks for pointing them out to me. I hope you are enjoying it.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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