I just wanted to let you guys see what you think before I go any further with it. Right now it's as minimalistic as possible. Two rows of four squares of alternating color, all with a different percussion piece attached to them.
And, yes, since I used PyAno's backbone, you can up the frequency on each hit with the volume hardware buttons. It'll double the pitch, I believe.
And the N810's keyboard can control the drums, too. (z-m, a)
Right now bug reports are needed if you find something! And suggestions are very welcome. (The errors importing the cdrom and joystick modules are already known. These will not effect PyDrum at all.)
The next thing I really want to implement is a way to create custom sound packs for this, though. Then a nice GUI will be on the block.
Thanks a lot, guys.
Enjoy!
I installed it on my N800 running OS2007. It installed but nothing comes up. Pyano works great. Need drums! <g>
u could allow this to become a program where the user can select the sound to be played and then have special hardware buttons for loops, and mixers, and eventually u might be able to create songs along with pyano for some melody .
And the idea about being able to toggle on and off loops is a really good one as well. Just add a few button to the sides that are toggle buttons that allows the user to toggle on and off some loop(s) to run on the bg. Gonna be awesome!
Pattern editor. Where you can loop a measure and beat out a pattern. You can then assign those loops a letter (say 'Measure A' and 'Measure B' and so on). Then you can bring up an editor and lay out your patterns one after the other. So you can play from start to end... AABAABAACDAABAAB etc.
Its working now
just had an idea: As we now have pydrums and pyano (and we might more...) wouldn't it be a good Idea if we could have a menu where we could chose what instrument we want to use, something like this:
u could allow this to become a program where the user can select the sound to be played and then have special hardware buttons for loops, and mixers, and eventually u might be able to create songs along with pyano for some melody .
I might be able to rig up something of the sort... Recording is a but off at the moment, but making a tempo or a background might not be too difficult (knock on wood). Let me work on that...
