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Taiko drum ensemble
Big drums: one low drum at home, joined stretch by stretch by more of an ensemble playing accented interlocking patterns, and every threshold struck in a unison flam.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tempo | number | 76 | 56 to 104 bpm | the drumming tempo at home |
| ensemble | integer | 4 | 2 to 5 drums | how many drums play by the limit; one at home |
| density | number | 0.6 | 0.3 to 1 | how many hits the patterns spread over the bar |
| steps | integer | 8 | 6 to 12 | places in a bar for the patterns |
| pitch | integer | 31 | 26 to 40 | the lowest drum (MIDI), moved to the key root |
| accent | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how much the first hit of a bar and every third hit stand out |
| flam | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how wide and loud the grace strokes of the unison flam are |
| roughness | number | 0.3 | 0 to 1 | how loose the players are: timing, loudness and brightness |
| boom | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | a deep boom under every threshold (0 for none) |
| dropout | number | 2.4 | 1 to 5 s | how long before a quiet threshold the drumming stops |
| tail | bool | true | – | after the limit a single drum beats on, slowing, through the coda |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the home key; a channel that leaves it unset gets its own from its seed |
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