Why ~460 MB?#
A realistic sound comes from real recordings: every guitar note and every drum hit is a separate audio file, recorded at several dynamics (soft, medium, loud) and several times (the round robins, so two hits in a row are never identical). The program itself is under 200 KB: the space is all samples.
setup does not download whole libraries: it reads the SFZ maps and takes only the samples the program uses,
with at most 2 round robins for the guitar and 6 for the drums. Compared to the full libraries the download goes from
~1.2 GB to ~460 MB.
| Pack | Contents | setup |
setup --full |
|---|---|---|---|
gretsch 🎸 |
Gretsch Anniversary: normal notes + staccato, E2–E6 | ~175 MB | ~270 MB |
drums 🥁 |
Salamander Drumkit: kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, ride, crash | ~120 MB (stored ~145 MB) | ~185 MB |
cabs 🔈 |
21 impulse responses of Marshall 4×12 cabinets | ~5 MB | ~5 MB |
bass 🎻 |
pizzicato double bass (only with --bass) |
~56 MB | ~130 MB |
epiphone 🎸 |
alternative guitar, Epiphone solid body (optional) | ~40 MB | ~100 MB |
fender 🎸 |
Fender solid body DI, bridge pickup: default guitar | ~160 MB | ~314 MB |
acoustic 🎸 |
Seagull steel-string acoustic guitar, played without amp (optional, GPL with exception) | ~25 MB | ~25 MB |
ebass 🎸 |
Black & Blue 'darkblack' electric bass, fingered (optional) | ~80 MB | ~160 MB |
sneakybass 🎻 |
Sneakybass double bass, light pizzicato (optional) | ~63 MB | ~124 MB |
- Want the best?
backingtrack setup --fulldownloads every round robin: more variety, about twice the space. - Need space back?
backingtrack remove bass(or any pack); to delete everything remove the samples folder. - Where do they go?
~/.local/share/backingtrack(Linux),~/Library/Application Support/backingtrack(macOS) or%LOCALAPPDATA%\backingtrack(Windows). Change the folder with theBACKINGTRACK_HOMEvariable (e.g. an external drive). - Downloaded only once: afterwards the program works offline.