Monthly Archives: June 2009

Step sequencer / drum machine

By admin | Published: June 14, 2009
Here is a basic step sequencer for creating rhythms. The sounds it plays are small MP3 files. Short sound clips of drum noises, blips and plings. So it’s more a sample player than a drum synth. But the main thing is that it loads and plays rhythm patterns and that the patterns can easily be [...]
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MIDI and XML for a drum machine

By admin | Published: June 1, 2009
As a next project I want to make a simple drum machine. Several tracks that each play a different drum sample and each track has sixteen steps. Just like a Roland 808 or the main step sequencer in FruityLoops. It’s nothing complicated but it made me think about how to store the patterns the drum [...]
Posted in MIDI, XML | 2 Comments