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A small music tool
Posted by mcc (twitter: @mcclure111)
August 17th, 2011 12:54 am
Hi again! So I have this small music program I made a little while back, mostly just for fun, that lets you make little drum/music loops. When I made my I’m In post I got a comment from someone saying they were interested in using this to make music loops for ludum dare and requesting a wav export function be added. I’d gotten this request before, so I went ahead and added it!
So if you’re interested, here is version 1.0.1 of Drumcircle, with an export button under “Save” that emits a seamless-loopable wav of the current loop. Here’s a quick little music loop I made with it to demonstrate.
Hope someone finds this useful 
By the way, along with the new update I also did some refactoring to make the part of Drumcircle that actually generates the sound a little easier to separate out from the rest of the code. Eventually I want to make a standalone library (for my own use, at least) that would allow you to load save files from Drumcircle and use them as background music in a game or whatever. There’s a version of this in the BitBucket repository; I haven’t totally separated it from the rest of the Drumcircle code but it’s mostly just a matter of removing a couple of headers and a few lines of unnecessary code.
Wow, great little program you got here.
Love it. L O V E it. THis is perfect for my needs. It can do chiptune, piano, guitar and more! Great work. Will use for this LD!
looks sweet, Imma try it out right now
I never expected you to update it before the compo. I will most definitely be using this in the next LD.
First if all; This is freaking great (as I’ve told you on Twitter
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But; I’d love to get some sort of confirmation that this wouldn’t break any rules; Are we allowed to use these samples in an LD entry?
“But; I’d love to get some sort of confirmation that this wouldn’t break any rules; Are we allowed to use these samples in an LD entry?”
OK, so, for starters, sorry, I should have mentioned this last night but forgot at the time:
The Ludum Dare rules say “Fonts, drum loops, drum samples, and sampled instruments are allowed IF you have the legal right to use them.”
It is legal to reuse these samples BUT you under their licenses must give attribution to the sample creators if you incorporate them into a work. Here is the license text in the readme for Drumcircle; I suggest just copying this line into your README if you create a loop using Drumcircle:
“Featuring open-licensed sound samples by Surachai, Joe Folladori, and (via the One Laptop Per Child archive) The Berklee College of Music, Open Path Music, Flavio Gaete, Colman O’Reilly, Eric Lamothe, Jean Piche, Olivier Belanger and Nathanael Lecaude.”
By the way, the “chiptune” noises (unlabled tiles) are generated and therefore need no license, also any samples of your own you import into Drumcircle (see the instructions at the link above) obviously don’t have these restrictions.