micah-frank-studio / beatfox

Csound Beat Generator - Continuously creates electronic beats (default 4 measures long) sorted by BPM.

Chronopolis 5k Beatfox - CSound Rhythm Generation Device

This is a free Csound generative beat tool - part of a larger compositional environment I'm building.

It will constantly create perfectly looped rhythms that can easily be dropped into a program like Ableton Live.

Leave it running all night, and you'll wake up with hundreds of loops in your folder!

It sounds similar to a Nord Drum or modular analog drums. It can also produce some 808-ish sounds.

Here are some audio examples: https://soundcloud.com/micahfrank/sets/chronopolis5k-beatfox

• All you need is a Csound compiler like CSound QT https://csoundqt.github.io/

• Load up the Beatfox.csd file, hit "Run" (command + R) and watch it go.

Disclaimer: This software is not thoroughly tested. Although it works fine on my system, Csound can have "temperamental" moments. Please try it out first with your speakers/headphones turned down.

To do

• Offline rendering

• Triplets and 32nd notes

• Rolls

• curve random parameters

• Samples

• More accurate density control

• Option to create more repetitive beats

License: Written by Micah Frank under GPLv3

beatfox's Issues

Low level feedback somewhere.

hat envelope

expseg in hat voice causes nasty feedback. changed it to linseg in the meantime

WARNING: instr (x) not found

Sound files being generated very rapidly with expected file size but no audio. Console rapidly generating messages like: "WARNING: instr snare1 not found" (includes hats, snare1, snare2, kick). Could just be an odd quirk with my system, but Kickblast works perfectly. Installed the latest version of Csound. Running Windows 10.