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In 2005 I made a MIDI drum machine program[1] that could accept ASCII drum tablature as input to varying degrees of success, either by loading from a file, or y

In 2005 I made a MIDI drum machine program[1] that could accept ASCII drum tablature as input to varying degrees of success, either by loading from a file, or you could just paste it in with the mouse (either via middle mouse button[2], or right mouse + PASTE). At the time, mxtabs.net[3] had tons of ASCII drum tab, but it shut down a short time later (2006). My program could try to re-factor these drum tabs to pull out common repeated patterns to be represented in my program's native format. It was a fun project. (I'm a much better C programmer now than I was then.) [1] https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica [2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs

gregsadetsky 3y ago
Wow no kidding -- what a loss re: mxtabs! https://web.archive.org/web/20050325042659/http://mxtabs.net:80/tab_versions.php?path=Drums,m,3061,Metallica,Master+Of+Puppets+%28S%26M%29,163387 https://web.archive.org/web/20050325042659/http://mxtabs.net... Eternal thanks to archive.org
wkoszek 3y ago
It's awesome that you replied to this thread, because I was thinking about writing a program like this, and I'm happy that it exists. Does it work on the modern OSes?
- smcameron 3y ago
  It's linux only, and MIDI only, and it needs GTK2, but yeah, it should work on modern linux. You can use jack[1] to connect the midi output to a softsynth, or another drum software (e.g. Hydrogen[2]) or to actual MIDI hardware. There's a video demo[3] of my program I made 3 years ago. The pasting of drum tab is demoed at 6:20 in the video. [1] https://jackaudio.org/ https://jackaudio.org/ [2] http://hydrogen-music.org/devzone/ http://hydrogen-music.org/devzone/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqcNK6P1i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqcNK6P1i8

gregsadetsky 3y ago

Wow no kidding -- what a loss re: mxtabs! https://web.archive.org/web/20050325042659/http://mxtabs.net:80/tab_versions.php?path=Drums,m,3061,Metallica,Master+Of+Puppets+%28S%26M%29,163387 https://web.archive.org/web/20050325042659/http://mxtabs.net... Eternal thanks to archive.org

wkoszek 3y ago

It's awesome that you replied to this thread, because I was thinking about writing a program like this, and I'm happy that it exists. Does it work on the modern OSes?

smcameron 3y ago
It's linux only, and MIDI only, and it needs GTK2, but yeah, it should work on modern linux. You can use jack[1] to connect the midi output to a softsynth, or another drum software (e.g. Hydrogen[2]) or to actual MIDI hardware. There's a video demo[3] of my program I made 3 years ago. The pasting of drum tab is demoed at 6:20 in the video. [1] https://jackaudio.org/ https://jackaudio.org/ [2] http://hydrogen-music.org/devzone/ http://hydrogen-music.org/devzone/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqcNK6P1i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqcNK6P1i8