h1. "Beatbox beta":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