About Ba-Dum-Tss
Author: Trijeet Mukhopadhyay
trijeetm@stanford.edu
Date: Fall '14
Ba-Dum-Tss is a step sequencer which allows one to sequence drum beat and bass notes. This is a concept prototype which is aiming to enable people with minimal musical background create music. I'd love your feedback.
Sadly, only Mac builds exist as of now, Linux and Windows builds out soon. Feel free to download the source code and create your own makefiles for other operating systems.
Download
Mac OSX: Executable
The source code is available here
Build instructions
Download build from the links above and then extract it.
To extract: $ tar -zxvf <archive>
To build: $ make
To run: $ ./ba-dum-tss
Ba-Dum-Tss require lib-fluidSynth to work.
To install FluidSynth: $ brew install fluidsynth pkg-config
Usage
./ba-dum-tss ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ba-dum-tss Trijeet Mukhopadhyay http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~trijeetm/ba-dum-tss ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'h' - print this help message '`' - toggle fullscreen (below esc key) '<esc>' - quit visualization '<tab>' - switch instruments left and right arrows to cycle b/w patches/notes or use the following keys to select notes/patches '-' '=' 'p' '[' 'l' ';' ',' '.' and place them on the sequencer keys correspond to position in the grid, hitting those toggles notes in that position '<spacebar>' to clear all notes <up-arrow> and <down-arrow> to control tempo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROTIP: if program crashes, run with wi-fi/bluetooth turned off ------------------------------------------------------------------------