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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
But can they develop a drum machine with soul? Now that would an accomplishment.
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They are already working on it by analyzing the styles of particular drummers and mapping that into quantizing formulae that convert a basic drum track into a track that carries the "groove" of a specified drummer (or even an imaginary drummer with certain qualities). So far the results are mediocre, but I'd guess it'll be 3-5 years at most before you won't be able to tell the difference between a studio drum track done by a real drummer and one done by a sufficiently talented programmer.