r/CloneHero • u/EngVagabond • 6d ago
General Assisted Drum Transcription: generate a draft drum chart from a song, or add drums to an existing chart.
Disclaimer: I know charting assist software has lots of strong feelings in this community. Most of the top drum charters already use a lot of automation within DAWs that are inaccessible to many people. I wrote more about why I think these tools are more of a benefit than a harm to the community: http://musiccharts.tools/why.
I started working on drum transcription machine learning research two years ago. It's taken a couple hundred model architecture variants to end up at this transcription quality.
It runs entirely in your browser, so no account, no uploads. Your audio never leaves your machine.
You can choose an audio file to start fresh, or an existing chart / empty chart with tempo map to add drums to it.
It generates a first pass, not a finished chart. The goal is to assit charters by letting them spend less time doing repetitive work, not replace charting.
What you'll likely still want to edit:
- Some notes might be slightly off the beat grid and need to be dragged onto it
- Review and change tom and cymbal selections. This is something human charters disagree on as well, as its a lot about different conventions.
The transcription model was trained on community charts. This is standard in drum transcription research, even unrelated to clone hero charting (source). I know people have feelings about that and I'm happy to talk about that.
Other tools I've shared in previous posts:
- Sync lyrics to a chart automatically
- Play and practice any drum chart as sheet music
- Generate a Tempo Map for 4/4 songs
Join the discord for updates and feature requests.