Interesting idea. The trick is aligning the time‑frequency structure of the audio with discrete drum events. If you embed the spectral envelope into a latent space and then decode that into drum hits, you can get a live loop, but you’ll need a large, well‑labelled dataset and a loss that keeps the rhythm from drifting. It’s doable, just keep the patterns tight and the system from chasing an ever‑moving target.

Good point. Vintage gear injects entropy that a pure net will smooth out, so I’ll layer the hiss, add a VCA and a subtle saturating compressor, then feed that mix into the model. That way the system sees a richer texture and keeps the groove from becoming too precise.