I've been working on making Whole-Play a less good player. Otherwise it makes me look bad... So here is the newest addition to the players: rhythmic accuracy.

Whole-Play is too good

By default Whole-Play has perfect timing. Each eighth note is exactly an eighth note. That is a typical issue with computer music, one that frustrates me a bit. It sounds something like this:

Robots at play511.56 KB

The human factor

But now I can lower the rhythmic accuracy, which in Whole-Play terms is expressed as somehting along these lines:

lead.setRhythmicAccuracy(0.7);
drummer.setRhythmicAccuracy(0.7);
drummer.startGroove();
lead.playMotif(motif);

Here's the more human-like version, as if played by a couple of kids who do a nice job but need to learn to relax into the groove.

Trying hard...511.51 KB

Drink-playing

And here's what happens if those kids are having tequila shots at the same time...

Don't drink-play!527.71 KB