Comments on: Excel based drum machine

By: john smith

john smith — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:41:57 +0000

OK! I see a drum machine!!But wheres
the download!!!
Another link to nothing, just as expecteed!!!
Thanks for nothing

By: Zerophil

Zerophil — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:03:49 +0000

what do you mean “not all windows users have office”? i thought that it was a law now. damn that dell sales person!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:51:26 +0000

If I’ve got to buy a Mac, it’s not really free, is it?

By: max

max — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:46:50 +0000

There is already a good free drum machine with tons of preloaded samples; it’s called garageband and it ships with every mac! And for 70 bucks you can get a midi keyboard to jam out with. I don’t have the time to master frets and strumming on a real guitar but hell, I know what sounds good and I’ve been hitting keys for 15 years :). I wonder, can you install the iLife applications on OSX86? Anyone?

By: p@

p@ — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:20:08 +0000

“To customise a product you own to make it better suit your needs?”

uhh… i don’t own MSExcel… so that must mean… this is useless.

Try hacking using the ultimate hackers resource… Opensource.

here’s a tip… http://www.openoffice.org

By: iNSOMNIACUK

iNSOMNIACUK — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:34:44 +0000

If he had programmed a drum machine himself, that wouldn’t be much of a hack, would it? The whole fun of hacking is making a product designed for one purpose do something entirely different isn’t it? To customise a product you own to make it better suit your needs?

By: mix master master mixa

mix master master mixa — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:13:32 +0000

Totally badass! I love it. Now, If it only had MIDI support…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:41:04 +0000

Thanks for the link! The ability to script the kit–to create a real drum machine–is something I’d like to work on, particularly straight from a spreadsheet, but if someone else wants to put it together that would also be cool.

By: pocketbrain

pocketbrain — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:26:21 +0000

His link to a site with drum samples kinda crashed that guy’s bandwidth. Bummer, but I recorded some vocal samples, and we’re cool now. With a little bit of VB and time and a better microphone, and yes, a better voice, you could program a full keyboard, forget “just” the drum set.
Oh, and who here paid $350 for excel? It runs on ’97! I might play with this and see how well I can script it. Haven’t looked terribly closely at the code, yet.

By: william

william — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:50:04 +0000

yeah, i know, it’s cool and all, but it won’t let you do two samples at the same time, which kind of makes it pretty un-practical… if this is somthing wrong on my computer or settings, let me know please

william

By: furtim

furtim — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:40:42 +0000

For those of you asking what the point of using Excel was… Hack value, plain and simple. It’s like climbing Everest, only without the sherpas and oxygen deprivation.

By: tomskag

tomskag — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:29:43 +0000

bravo, thsi is a nice change of pace.

By: n3ldan

n3ldan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:07:44 +0000

#6:Microsof tisnt teh devil, but they’re EULA certainly isnt something I woudl agree with. Thankin Linus doesnt make him my lord, either. It’s the fact that (the drum machine dude) built it into $350 software, rather than the free equivelant. Or just making it standalone. Believe it or not, not all windows users have office (and for good reason)

By: The Tech Department

The Tech Department — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:59:42 +0000

I was in a band for years. Our drummer really sorta sucked but our guitarist could play drums(and sing, play harmonica, trombone, organ, well, I hated his raw talent,) but this would have been a great alternative to one of those expensive(crappy) drum machines. I plan on giving this a whirl. Maybe I can figure out a way to save the inputs and have it play back.

I’ll be drumming like Danny Carey(Tool) in no time now!

By: fucter

fucter — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:33:14 +0000

but tristin, we are jerks. and we’re proud :)