Licenses and Attribution

Sources and credits

DrumBeet combines public Groove MIDI corpus tooling, redistributable samples, browser model tooling, and open-source software. This page tracks the launch attribution posture.

Area Source License or note
Phrase corpus Groove MIDI Dataset by Google Magenta Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The current local generated Groove base database contains 1,150 source files and 11,907 mined phrases.
Audio samples FreePats MuldjordKit Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Audio samples FreePats World and Rare Percussion CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
Model tools Magenta.js and selected public Magenta MusicVAE/MusicRNN checkpoints Magenta.js is Apache License 2.0. Checkpoints are loaded from Google's public Magenta checkpoint URLs for browser tools.
Visualization regl-scatterplot Apache License 2.0, used for the WebGL phrase map renderer.

Repository notices

Detailed redistribution notes are maintained in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and public/static/data/sample-attributions.json.

Private imports

User-supplied MIDI folders are local/private inputs and are not public corpus material.

No affiliation

DrumBeet is not affiliated with or endorsed by dataset authors, sample providers, model providers, artists, labels, publishers, VCV Rack, or any referenced third party unless explicitly stated.