Drumscrib is a team of one man, for now.

My name is Morgan Chabaud, I am a french software robotics engineer, specialised in machine learning. I play drums as a hobby and although I played a few small concerts when younger, my passion lies in trying to make 'intelligent' software. Every one that has transcribed drum parts knows that it can be very quick for repetitive and slow songs, but it can take hours for more complex songs. I used to transcribe the songs I wanted to play on paper, but nowadays, I just want to spend an hour playing drums instead of manually transcribing. Unfortunately, finding quality drum sheet music is quite the challenge, if possible at all. That is why I decided to solve this issue by making a software that would do it automatically!

A few months ago... Well... time flies, it was in February 2022 that I decided to develop an automatic transcription software for drums. At first, I searched for previous attempts or research papers on the matter and I was intrigued as to why there was so little on the matter... "A quick one-month development" I said to myself... In the end, it isn't that easy but all things considered, it's not that hard either. There are just a lot of small pieces that, all together, make it work. However, it still doesn't work quite as often or as properly as we want to, that is why it is in beta.

Almost a year of research and development... Who made it possible? My lovely family for support, and my loyal ten-years-old laptop. That's it, no team, no sponsor or other financing plan, and I'm probably a bad 'entrepreneur' because of it. Apart from not having an income, I cannot pay anyone to help me out making Drumscrib perfect, so it takes all my time, every single day. However, don't get it wrong, it would not be possible without public research papers, opensource software, and public forums.

Here we are, Drumscrib is in beta. Now, while I keep working full-time to reach a proper transcription quality, meaning on a par or better than a human can do for any audio with drums on it, every one can start enjoying automatic transcriptions. Although not always great, when the service improves, you'll be able to get the improved transcriptions you already bought at no additional cost. When it works without issues, it can already be really useful to start playing on new songs, and you directly support the development.

February 1, 2023