drumsynth

A small drum synthesis library for Elementary Audio.

Installation

$ npm install --save @nick-thompson/drumsynth

Usage

import ds from '@nick-thompson/drumsynth';

// A contrived example; a function that produces a kick, hat, and clap playing
// on every step of a pulse train running at 4Hz.
function chaos() {
  let gate = el.train(4);

  return el.add(
    ds.kick(40, 0.104, 0.005, 0.4, 4, gate),
    ds.clap(800, 0.005, 0.204, gate),
    ds.hat(317, 12000, 0.005, 0.1, gate),
  );
}

Reference

ds.kick(pitch, click, attack, decay, drive, gate)

• @param {Node|number} pitch - The base frequency of the kick drum in Hz
• @param {Node|number} click - The speed of the pitch envelope, tuned for [0.005s, 1s]
• @param {Node|number} attack - Attack time in seconds, tuned for [0.005s, 0.4s]
• @param {Node|number} decay - Decay time in seconds, tuned for [0.005s, 4.0s]
• @param {Node|number} drive - A gain multiplier going into the saturator. Tuned for [1, 10]
• @param {Node|number} gate - The pulse train which triggers the amp envelope
• @returns {Node}

ds.clap(tone, attack, decay, gate)

• @param {Node|number} tone - Bandpass filter cutoff frequency, tuned for [400Hz, 3500Hz]
• @param {Node|number} attack - Attack time in seconds, tuned for [0s, 0.2s]
• @param {Node|number} decay - Decay time in seconds, tuned for [0s, 4.0s]
• @param {Node|number} gate - The pulse train which triggers the amp envelope
• @returns {Node}

ds.hat(pitch, tone, attack, decay, gate)

• @param {Node|number} pitch - Base frequency in the range [317Hz, 3170Hz]
• @param {Node|number} tone - Bandpass filter cutoff frequency, tuned for [800Hz, 18kHz]
• @param {Node|number} attack - Attack time in seconds, tuned for [0.005s, 0.2s]
• @param {Node|number} decay - Decay time in seconds, tuned for [0.005s, 4.0s]
• @param {Node|number} gate - The pulse train which triggers the amp envelope
• @returns {Node}

Running the Example

In the examples/ directory here we have a small example demonstrating some step sequencing of the provided drum synth sounds. The example is intended for the minimal command line tool shipped in the main Elementary repo. You'll first need to clone and compile the command line tool there, then here you can bundle the examples/stepseq.js file and run it with the cli.

# Get the repo
git clone https://github.com/nick-thompson/drumsynth.git
cd drumsynth

# Install and build
npm install
npm run build

# Run the example. You'll need to locate `elemcli` in your own file system depending on
# where you built the cli project yourself.
./elemcli examples/dist/stepseq.js

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Nick Thompson

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