A silly way to turn your keyboard into an avalanche of drum sounds

pthock.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from pynput import keyboard
import pygame
import os
import random
import glob


DRUM_FOLDER = "drums2"
BANK = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), DRUM_FOLDER)


pygame.mixer.init(44100, -16, 1, 512)
pygame.mixer.set_num_channels(32)

files = glob.glob(os.path.join(BANK, "*.wav"))
files.sort()

samples = [pygame.mixer.Sound(f) for f in files]


def on_press(key):
    print(key)
    try:
        sample = ord(key.char) % len(samples)
        samples[sample].play(loops=0)
    except AttributeError:
        random.choice(samples).play(loops=0)

with keyboard.Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

If you're launching this from Terminal then you need to delve into Privacy & Security -> Input Monitoring and enable Terminal.app. There's no need to quit and relaunch terminal, though you'll need to relaunch the Python program.

Needs pynput and pygame ... could probably just use the latter, but who likes event pumps anyway.

Known issues:

1. Completely silly
2. For entertainment purposes only
3. Re-triggers when you hold a key... figure that out yourself
4. Mods have random sounds, alphas are constant (char code modulo the sample bank size)

I was lazy so I grabbed the Drum samples from my old Drum HAT code at https://github.com/pimoroni/drum-hat/tree/master/examples/drums2