I had forgot to give ClockName a default value, resulting in a memory access crash. Super simple fix, which means I completed the task incredibly quickly.
Cleaned up a warning generated by AudioCuePlayer, moved StartClock to Phases folder.
Really that’s all procrastinating on the next obvious goal- rebuild BP_Drums to be in code, phased, etc.
But it’s slightly non-trivial. Take this for example:
Gideon Waxman 15 Common Drum Beats and Patterns (With Sheet Music)
It is entirely reasonable to envision Phases where we set/select drum patterns. That requires a concept of patterns.
Now the nice thing is this is pretty easy to achieve in theory:
- kick hits at 2, 4
- snare on 3
- closed hat every beat
But there’s a couple things I need to do:
- Define a data structure that encapsulates those individual instruments (Maybe revamp note-container?)
- Port in closed hat and snare, instrument as code.
- PhaseController for start/stop drumming pattern
Not crazy difficult, but enough to spin up a drums branch in LETSGO to start working on it.
It also had me re-researching loading random VST’s in Unreal.
But once-again came to the conclusion I’d make more progress actually learning MetaSound and building synths from scratch in Unreal.