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AIMC 2026 · Toolkit

Jem Drum Mapping Toolkit

The drum gesture mapping toolkit developed alongside the AIMC 2026 paper. Download the pack below, then follow the installation and tutorial videos to get started.

Note: I made all the videos for Jem after our study ended, so there might be some comments that are specific to us – but otherwise does a full run through of the current toolkit and what we used to make the album!

Download

Jem Drum Mapping v1.0 Ableton Live Pack (.alp)

01 Installation

Installing the pack

02 Tutorials

Project overview

03 Notes

What's not in the pack yet

There are a couple missing pieces – coming soon.

  • TODO: Genetic algorithm for timbre remapping running in Ableton with M4L. Check out our NIME paper from last year, which includes a Max package for running timbre remapping with synths.
  • TODO: Training continuous models directly in Ableton with M4L. For now, you have to use the Python code (below) to create new continuous models.

Code

  • Python Code GitHub