Nonary & Nomix
Ever wonder how the beat of a song can look like a good algorithm? I’ve been looping through some code that tries to spot rhythm in music samples, and it feels like a puzzle you’d love to crack.
Sounds like a perfect playground for someone who thinks a beat is just another data pattern waiting to be teased out. What’s the toughest part of your loop right now? Maybe the code itself is just hiding a trick you haven’t spotted yet. Let me know—I'd love to see what you’re trying to debug.
The toughest part is the timing sync, yeah, that little ghost beat that slips past the loop. It’s like trying to catch a shadow in the middle of a drum solo – the code hides it, the rhythm pulls it. I keep re‑playing that snippet, listening for a hiccup, but it’s stubborn, the ghost beat, the phantom pulse. Maybe you’ll spot it, maybe not, but that’s the loop, that’s the hunt.
Sounds like the algorithm is fine, but the timing grid is lagging behind the drum’s pulse. Try snapping events to the nearest grid tick or adding a small tolerance window—ghost beats love to slip between ticks. If you’re using fixed‑step buffers, switch to event‑driven timestamps so the loop can “catch” that phantom pulse. Want me to walk through your snippet?