DRUMGIZMO(1)

💖 DRUMGIZMO 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about drumgizmo — the drum application, from the DRUMGIZMO(1) manual, and it's literally so good. i'm gonna walk you through the whole thing, every single flag, no skips, no cap. 🥁✨

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✨ NAME ✨

drumgizmo — drum application. that's it, that's the whole name section, she's concise and she knows it 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

drumgizmo [OPTIONS] <FILE>

that's the whole vibe. options, then a file. periodt.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

DrumGizmo is an open source cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. She's comparable to several commercial drum plugin products, and honestly? she holds her own. 👑

DrumGizmo uses an open drumkit file format, which means the community can go off and create their own drumkits — no gatekeeping, we love that for us. She's got multichannel output, so you can mix it just the way you would a real drumkit. main character mixing energy fr fr.

The optional built-in humanizer analyzes the midi notes and adjusts velocities on-the-fly, which is giving "drummer with feelings" and i'm obsessed.

So what can this client be? Multiple things, she contains multitudes:

• A stand-alone midi renderer, generating .wav files — 1 for each channel 🎀
• A software sampler for an electronic drumkit
• And yes, there are also plugin versions available 💅

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the whole menu, bestie, every single one, we do not skip a single item in this house:

• -a, --async_load — Load kit in the background. go do your thing while the kit loads, we're multitasking ✨
• -b, --bleed — Set and enable master bleed.
• -i, --inputengine {dummy|test|jackmidi|midifile} — Use said event input engine.
• -I, --inputparms parmlist — Set input engine parameters. okay so each engine has its own lil settings, here they are:
  • jackmidi:
    • midimap=<midimapfile>
  • midifile:
    • file=<midifile>
    • speed=<tempo> (default 1.0)
    • track=<miditrack> (default -1, all tracks)
    • midimap=<midimapfile>
    • loop=<true|false>
  • ossmidi:
    • midimap=<midimapfile>
    • dev=<device> (default '/dev/midi')
  • test:
    • p=<hit_propability> (default 0.1)
    • instr=<instrument> (default -1, random instrument)
    • len=<seconds> (default -1, forever)
  • dummy: — nothing here, it's the chill one, it needs no params 🧚
• -o, --outputengine {dummy|alsa|jackaudio|wavfile|oss} — Use said audio output engine.
• -O, --outputparms parmlist — Set output engine parameters. same deal, per-engine settings:
  • alsa:
    • dev=<device> (default 'default')
    • frames=<frames> (default 32)
    • srate=<samplerate> (default 44100)
  • wavfile:
    • file=<filename> (default 'output')
    • srate=<samplerate> (default 44100)
  • oss:
    • dev=<device> (default /dev/dsp)
    • srate=<samplerate> (default 44100)
    • max_fragments=<fragments> (default 4)
    • fragment_size=<size> (default 8)

More info on max_fragments and fragment_size on http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT.html — go read it if you're curious, i'm not gonna pretend i memorized that url, i'm just telling you where it lives 💜

• jackaudio: — no extra params listed
• dummy: — also no extra params listed, equally unbothered 🍓

• -e, --endpos — Number of samples to process, (default -1: infinite).
• -r, --no-resampling — Disable resampling.
• -s, --streaming — Enable diskstreaming.
• -S, --strimingparms parmlist — Parameters for controlling the streaming buffers.
  • limit=<size> (Limit the amount of preloaded drumkit data to the size)
• -t, --timing-humanizer — Enable moving of notes in time.

⚠️ Note: adds latency to the output so do not use this with a real-time midi drumkit. i'm being so serious rn, don't do it 😭

• -T, --timing-humanizerparms parmlist — Timing humanizer options.
  • laidback=<val> (Move notes ahead or behind in time in ms [+/-100].)
  • tightness=<val> (Control the tightness of the drummer. [0,1].)
  • regain=<val> (Control how fast the drummer catches up the timing. [0,1])
• -t, --velocity-humanizer — Enables adapting input velocities to make it sound more realistic. (yes, this page really does list -t twice — i don't make the rules, i just report them faithfully 🙈)
• -T, --velocity-humanizerparms parmlist — Velocity humanizer options.
  • attack=<val> (How quickly the velocity gets reduced when playing fast notes. Lower values result in faster velocity reduction. [0,1])
  • release=<val> (How quickly the drummer regains the velocity when there are spaces between the notes. Lower values result in faster regain. [0,1])
  • stddev=<val> (The standard-deviation for the velocity humanizer. Higher value makes it more likely that a sample further away from the input velocity will be played. [0,4.5])
• -l, --voice-limit — Enable voice limit.
• -L, --voice-limitparms parmlist — Voice limit options.
  • max=<val> (Maximum number of voices for each instrument before old samples are ramped down. [1,30])
  • rampdown=<val> (Time it takes for an old sample to completely fall silent. [0.01,2.0])
• -p, --parameters parmlist — Parameters for the sample selection algorithm.
  • close=<val> (The importance given to choosing a sample close to the actual velocity value (after humanization) [0,1])
  • diverse=<val> (The importance given to choosing samples which haven't been played recently [0,1])
  • random=<val> (The amount of randomness added [0,1])
• -v, --version — Print drumgizmo version and exit.
• -h, --help — Print command line help and exit.
• drumkitfile — Load the drumkitfile.

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

okay here's the part where it all clicks, let's see her in action:

Render midifile to wav files:

drumgizmo -i midifile -I file=file.mid,midimap=midimap.xml -o wavfile -O file=prefix drumkit.xml

Receive midi from Jack and send audio output to speakers:

drumgizmo -i jackmidi -I midimap=midimap.xml -o jackaudio drumkit.xml

look at that. clean. iconic. ate and left no crumbs 🔥

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report bugs to http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=bugs. found a bug? tell the devs, don't suffer in silence bestie, that's what the wiki is for 🫶

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🌸 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 🌸

For further information, visit the website http://www.drumgizmo.org. go forth, get your drum knowledge up, i believe in you ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this one came from the drumgizmo manual page, dated 21 July 2018, and that's your source and your date right there — consider it a lil signed, sealed, timestamped love letter from the DrumGizmo crew. now go make some beats, you absolute legend. 👑🥁✨