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How to Follow a Drummer

https://drummate.app/blog/how-to-follow-a-drummer
9•sashyo•3d ago

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sashyo•3d ago
Author here. This came out of building an Android app where a generated band follows a live e-drummer over USB MIDI, but the writeup is the platform-agnostic part: why raw hits can't clock anything, why clock division is causal but multiplication forces you to carry a tempo model, and the "coasting" behavior that turned out to be the difference between a follower that works in tests and one that works with an actual drummer.

Happy to answer anything about the tracker internals - onset weighting, downbeat inference from accent patterns, or why the band schedules against the clock's forecast instead of reacting to hits (keeps audio latency out of the drummer's timing loop entirely).

Slow_Hand•44m ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
stavros•51m ago
Am I weird for not wanting to read Claude-generated text any more? I tried to figure out what this app is about, but all the Claude verbal tics in the text turned me off and I stopped.
fourside•39m ago
I’m on the same boat. I get why people do it. Writing prose is significantly slower than consuming it, but there’s still a part of me that thinks “if you didn’t think writing was a good use of your time, why would reading this content be a use of mine”. I don’t mind AI-assisted writing but it’s hard to know to how much human editing was involved when the text shows so many AI tells. Almost by definition, AI writing is average it’s hard to justify spending the time when there’s so much content out there.
multjoy•7m ago
“You didn’t write it, why should I read it?”

Seems like a perfectly reasonable stance.

Slow_Hand•37m ago
Not once did this pop on my radar as AI-generated. And if it is that’s fine, because it reads extremely clear and coherent to me.

Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.

At this point I don’t care. People now write with AI. If the writing is deficient in some way, then comment on that. At least that way the “writer” can steer the writing towards greater coherence.

forsalebypwner•22m ago
It's easy to tell imo in part because of how terse the sentences are:

`Obvious in hindsight.`

`The clock never jumps.`

`No lookahead, no undo.`

`A real kick pattern is not a clock.`

>Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.

Gotta disagree wholeheartedly with that - using AI to write for you is really fucking annoying as a reader. It screams to me that the "author" feels the reader's time is worthless, and it homogenizes language in a way that is troubling to say the least.

efitz•15m ago
I am not a musician but found this fascinating. Thank you for posting.
izacus•16m ago
If someone keeps serving feces, the right response isn't to complain about them complaining about having to eat crap.
gumby271•7m ago
> Division is free, multiplication is prediction

I'm so tired

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