Monkey Machine - online drum machine

[Phait]

http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/#

 

 

 

Monkey Machine features:

 

 

 

* High quality drum samples provided by Natural Studio and Hydrogen.

 

* Extremely accurate timing.

 

* Online drum beat database with over 10 000 downloadable drum beats.

 

* MIDI export.

 

* Tap tempo.

 

* Variable time signatures.

 

 

[rasputin1963]

Hey, Phait-- Yeah, I sure will "give it up" for this! It is kewl.

 

My mind kinda reels when I think of how, in 1983 or 4, I desired a drum machine, much like this one (hell, not even as GOOD as this one).... yet couldn't afford it.

 

And here it is as a very good sounding JAVA app... free to all.

[Phait]

Go to File, Download beat, Author PH882 is me.

[rasputin1963]

Go to File, Download beat, Author PH882 is me.

 

Shweet! Nice, funky ballad groove. Good work, young Mr. Phait!

[Cry Logic]

If you like Monkey Machine, checkout audiotool:

 

http://www.audiotool.com/app

 

It's come a long way since I last checked it out.

It's a virtual musical desktop with drum machines, synths, mixers, Stompbox FX etc

Many other features as well.

 

Everything is connected by virtual cables, similar to Reason.

 

If you register and login you can now save arrangements!

 

It also has a huge library of loops you can add to your tunes.

(Click the arrow at the top of the instrument/fx panel on the right hand side).

 

Takes quite a while to download and initialize.

And adding a new instrument or FX can take a while as well.

But once you're setup it works like a charm.

 

Very very cool imho.

 

Here's a screen grab I made earlier.

[techristian]

Drummers rebuttal.

 

Here is good software to replace your guitar player.

 

 

 

 

Dan

[blue2blue]

 

Drummers rebuttal. Here is good software to replace your guitar player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3mUi7LPdU Dan

 

Fake drums probably sound as hokey to real drummers as those guitar sounds sounded to me.

 

That said, there are plenty of guitarists who seem to want those squeezed, artificial sounding cookie cutter sounds (hence all the preset amp sim boxes, etc). Still, some of those sounded pretty dang fake. (Now my old Alesis QS6 had a real nasty feedback sound I loved.)

 

But the keyboardist in the vid is pretty good at the keyboard version of typical shred wankery.

[Lee Knight]

It's always great to have an excuse to play with that long 808 kick sound. I just killed 10 minutes loading the 808 and and cranking up the Pioneer. Yo.

 

That's unexpected fun. Thanks Phait.

[Mark L]

If you like Monkey Machine, checkout audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/app It's come a long way since I last checked it out. It's a virtual musical desktop with drum machines, synths, mixers, Stompbox FX etc Many other features as well. Everything is connected by virtual cables, similar to Reason. If you register and login you can now save arrangements! It also has a huge library of loops you can add to your tunes. (Click the arrow at the top of the instrument/fx panel on the right hand side). Takes quite a while to download and initialize. And adding a new instrument or FX can take a while as well. But once you're setup it works like a charm. Very very cool imho. Here's a screen grab I made earlier.

 

This looks fascinating but I haven't a clue where to start

 

Are there any instructions?

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

what's the name of that website you can type in chords and choosing a style, and it plays bass, drums, keyboards and guitar in a relative good sound quality?

[ggm1960]

That was cool, bookmarked!

[Cry Logic]

 

This looks fascinating but I haven't a clue where to start Are there any instructions?

 

 

To avoid completely hijacking Phait's thread I've posted a new thread with some more info about audiotool.

 

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2618970

[Mark L]

It's very new and only just come out of beta. For most of the last year it was only accessible through the hobnox web site and was really only a demo. With that version, users weren't able to save their arrangements, which meant you had to start from scratch each time you used it. Now that arrangements can be saved it's actually a valid musical tool. To start you simply drag an instrument, device or FX from panel on the right hand side, onto to the audiotool desktop and then connect them via their output and input points. Some instruments, like the Drum Machines and the ToneMatrix can be sequenced via their own interface or via the timeline. Other devices, like the bassline and the synth can only be sequenced via the timeline or the ToneMatrix. To access the loop library click on the arrow at the top of the device panel. But first you have to drag an Audiotrack object onto the desktop. Then drag the loop onto that object's track in the timeline. to access the timeline, just click on the icon to the left of the blue folder icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the desktop. Or just drag it up via the border at the bottom of the desktop. Everything is in step-time. No real-time input. You have to enter everything with the mouse. If you've ever used Roland's 808, 909 or 303 you'll know what to do. Checkout some of the arrangements people are sharing to get more of an idea. You can download shared arrangements here: http://www.audiotool.com/browse Click on the actual filename to open an arrangement's page. Click an it's arrow, if it has one to audition an audio version of the arrangement. If you want to make your own and be able to save you have to subscribe and login, which is free. There are 3 tutorials on youtube but they're for more advanced features, they don't cover the basics. http://www.youtube.com/AudiotoolTutorials

 

Thanks

[mcmurray]

This is awesome. Cheers.