Open Drums For Fluid Music
This repo contains a collection of drum sample libraries packaged for the fluid-music system. All packages are available via npm:
-
npm i@fluid-music/tr-707 -
npm i@fluid-music/tr-808 -
npm i@fluid-music/tr-909
The samples are originally came from machines.hyperreal.org.
Notation
In Open Drums, all drum sounds are mapped to one character. Case matters, you can even use emojis.
Example
This is what two measures of snare, kick, and hi-hat transcribed with 'fluid-music' look like:
const score = {
r: '1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ',
snare: [' k k ', ' k k '],
kick: ['B ', ' B B '],
hat: ['h h h h h h h h ', 'h h h h h h h h '],
}Here, we have 4 tracks, the first one is the rhythm string, notated with 'r', and then we have three tracks, one for each drum voice: 'snare', 'kick' and 'hat'.
For more info https://github.com/fluid-music/fluid-music/blob/main/docs/concepts.md#rhythm-string
- B: Bass drum - less click, longer sustain
- b: Bass drum - more click, short sustain
- h: closed hat
- H: open hat
- k: short snare
- K: long snare
- p: clap
👏 - '
👏 ':emoji clap
Example
We suggest this example to try a score to be rendered with three different drum machines.
const fluid = require('fluid-music');
const tr707 = require('@fluid-music/tr-707');
const tr808 = require('@fluid-music/tr-808');
const tr909 = require('@fluid-music/tr-909');
const session = new fluid.FluidSession({bpm: 180});
const score = {
r: '1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ',
snare: [' k k ', ' k k '],
kick: ['B ', ' B B '],
hat: ['h h h h h h h h ', 'h h h h h h h h '],
}
const tLibraries = [tr707.tLibrary, tr808.tLibrary, tr909.tLibrary];
for (const tLibrary of tLibraries) {
session.insertScore(score, {tLibrary});
}
session.finalize();
session.saveAsReaperFile('drumExamples')
.then(() => console.log('done'))
.catch((error) => console.log(error));
