Category: Audio Server

The server technology that creates Song Rhythm Tracks based on a rhythm and a song arrangement

Alive Drumming’s Smart Web Services with Elixir, Phoenix and GCP

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Ever wondered what technology lies behind Alive Drumming's smart web services? Here's the gist -

Alive Drumming's smart web services have been engineered in the Elixir programming language.  The web service supplies Alive Drumming's fully arranged rhythm tracks constructed from multiple takes of long-form audio of very talented drummers. Simply put, this service
  1. Parses a web request,
  2. Determines the arrangement structure of the requested track,
  3. Creates the audio-engineering scripts to splice slices of the long-form audio into the re

What’s Alive Drumming’s policy on privacy?

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Alive Drumming takes personal privacy very seriously.  We are committed to proactively protecting the privacy of our customers by not storing any personal information unless it is absolutely required, and should that be the case, it will always be protected by strong encryption.  We will never sell, or otherwise disclose, any personal, private or confidential information we hold on others. Our mobile Apps do not pass any information to our servers other than the (i) details of the audio track when requested, and (ii) the rhythm, and form of a song shared by pressing ‘share’. Alive Drumming, Audio Server, SRT Audio Files, SRT iOS App'

Alive Drumming’s Smart Web Services with Elixir, Phoenix and GCP

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Ever wondered what technology lies behind Alive Drumming's smart web services? Here's the gist -

Alive Drumming's smart web services have been engineered in the Elixir programming language.  The web service supplies Alive Drumming's fully arranged rhythm tracks constructed from multiple takes of long-form audio of very talented drummers. Simply put, this service
  1. Parses a web request,
  2. Determines the arrangement structure of the requested track,
  3. Creates the audio-engineering scripts to splice slices of the long-form audio into the re

What’s Alive Drumming’s policy on privacy?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Alive Drumming takes personal privacy very seriously.  We are committed to proactively protecting the privacy of our customers by not storing any personal information unless it is absolutely required, and should that be the case, it will always be protected by strong encryption.  We will never sell, or otherwise disclose, any personal, private or confidential information we hold on others. Our mobile Apps do not pass any information to our servers other than the (i) details of the audio track when requested, and (ii) the rhythm, and form of a song shared by pressing ‘share’. Alive Drumming, Audio Server, SRT Audio Files, SRT iOS App'

Why do these Song Rhythm Tracks sound so totally great?

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These Song Rhythm Tracks do sound totally great, don’t they?

This is one of the most frequent things I hear.  The great sound quality often comes as surprise, perhaps because of the widespread familiarity everybody has with 'Midi Drum Machines', which don't satisfy in the same way as Song Rhythm Tracks.  Midi Drum Machines and Song Rhythm Tracks are two very different products; we summarize their differences in the comparison section below.

The Song Rhythm Tracks Way

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“Song Rhythm Tracks” – A Comparison

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“Song Rhythm Tracks” is Alive Drumming's mobile Musician’s App providing production-ready rhythmic backing.  It is available on the Apple iOS App Store.
Alive Drumming brings musicians production-quality rhythmic backing, in it’s most convenient form — a mobile App to select, download and play Alive Drumming’s “Song Rhythm Tracks”.

Song Rhythm Tracks

Song Rhythm Track

“Song Rhythm Tracks” – A Comparison

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

“Song Rhythm Tracks” is Alive Drumming's mobile Musician’s App providing production-ready rhythmic backing.  It is available on the Apple iOS App Store.
Alive Drumming brings musicians production-quality rhythmic backing, in it’s most convenient form — a mobile App to select, download and play Alive Drumming’s “Song Rhythm Tracks”.

Song Rhythm Tracks

Song Rhythm Track

Smart Music Creation

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What's meant by "Smart Music Creation"?

"Smart" often means that technology has been added to something that previously had not had it. With 'music', the term 'digital' has been used for the distribution of consumer music in a 'digital form' - Audio-CD, mini-discs, DAT and later the revolution of online distribution through the iTunes Music Store. 'Smart Music Creation' could perhaps be considered to be where computerized devices help with the creation of music - the synthesizer, the drum machine, and MIDI generally. Drum Machines and Synthesizers are really new musical instruments lending themselves to new musical sounds and therefore new genres of music. That's not smart really, it is just a different type of instrument.

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Why do these Song Rhythm Tracks sound so totally great?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

These Song Rhythm Tracks do sound totally great, don’t they?

This is one of the most frequent things I hear.  The great sound quality often comes as surprise, perhaps because of the widespread familiarity everybody has with 'Midi Drum Machines', which don't satisfy in the same way as Song Rhythm Tracks.  Midi Drum Machines and Song Rhythm Tracks are two very different products; we summarize their differences in the comparison section below.

The Song Rhythm Tracks Way

<img class="size-large wp-image-29898" title="iPhone 8 Plus 03 MainTableScreen framed"

Alive Drumming’s Smart Web Services with Elixir, Phoenix and GCP

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Ever wondered what technology lies behind Alive Drumming's smart web services? Here's the gist -

Alive Drumming's smart web services have been engineered in the Elixir programming language.  The web service supplies Alive Drumming's fully arranged rhythm tracks constructed from multiple takes of long-form audio of very talented drummers. Simply put, this service
  1. Parses a web request,
  2. Determines the arrangement structure of the requested track,
  3. Creates the audio-engineering scripts to splice slices of the long-form audio into the re