h1. "Live Beatbox":http://github.com/rfwatson/live-beatbox

!http://rfwatson.github.com/images/beatbox.png!


Experimental drum machine which uses vocalization to select synthetic drum hits which best match beat-boxed sound.

Currently uses a combination of MFCC, SpectralCentroid and ZeroCrossing measurements to analyze and match the timbre of the sounds.

In super-alpha-beta state! It may or may not work on your setup.

h2. Requirements

* "SuperCollider":http://supercollider.sourceforge.net

* Some sort of external microphone and audio interface. I use an Edirol FA101 when building this. I haven't got it working well with the Mac's internal sound

* OSX - unless you want to make the GUI stuff cross-platform.

h2. Keyboard shortcuts

| @F1@      | Record mode |
| @F2@      | Preview recorded sound |
| @F3@      | Jamming mode |
| @Space@   | Start/stop sequencer |
| @Return@  | Add hit to seq (while playing) |
| @Backsp.@ | Remove hit (while playing) |
| @Up/Down@ | Select channel |
| @Left/Rt@ | Crossfader control |

h2. TODO

* Add analysis of amplitude envelope, only uses timbral analysis at the moment which while quite good it needs amp.env. comparison to be really intuitive
* Add ability to scan and add samples via GUI, from any location
* Improve doc
* Lots more...

h2. Contact me

Via "Github":http://github.com/rfwatson