osu! game modes Coming soon on DanceGAI
What is osu! taiko?
osu! taiko is osu!'s drum mode, inspired by Taiko no Tatsujin. Notes scroll from right to left along a single lane towards a drum, and you hit the centre or the rim of the drum in time with the music.
How osu! taiko is played
On a keyboard you usually play with four keys: two for the centre of the drum and two for the rim, so you can alternate hands.
- Dons (red) — hit the centre of the drum.
- Kats (blue) — hit the rim.
- Big notes — larger dons and kats; hitting with both keys at once scores more.
- Drumrolls and swells — a drumroll (yellow) is a stretch you hit as many times as you can; a swell asks for a set number of alternating hits.
What's in an osu! taiko beatmap
Each difficulty is a plain-text .osu file containing:
- Hit objects — every note with its time; whether it is a don or a kat, and big or small, comes from the hitsound attached to it. Drumrolls and swells are stored as long objects.
- Timing points — red (uninherited) lines set the BPM and offset, so every object sits on the beat; green (inherited) lines change scroll speed or hitsound volume for a section.
- Difficulty settings — HP drain, overall difficulty (how strict the timing judgement is) and the mode's own settings.
- Metadata — title, artist, the mapper's name, the difficulty name and tags.
- The .osz file — a mapset is shared as one .osz: a zip archive with every difficulty's .osu file, the song and the background image. Opening it (or dragging it onto the game window) imports the whole set.
Difficulty and star rating
osu! calculates a star rating (★) for every difficulty from note density and the colour patterns — how often you switch between don and kat, and how fast.
osu! taiko on DanceGAI
TaikoGAI, DanceGAI's model for osu! taiko, is planned and not available yet — there is no release date. A taiko generator has to choose don and kat so the colour patterns follow the drums and melody of the song.
Today DanceGAI creates osu! mania maps with ManiaGAI and osu! standard maps with OsuGAI (beta). If you also play one of those, you can turn the same song into a playable mapset now.
osu! taiko beatmap generator (coming soon)Open the AI osu! mania beatmap generator
Can DanceGAI create osu! taiko maps?
Not yet. TaikoGAI is planned; today DanceGAI creates osu! mania maps (4K–9K) and osu! standard maps (beta).
Can I play osu! standard maps in osu! taiko?
Yes — osu! converts osu! standard maps to osu! taiko automatically. Maps made for osu! taiko are written around don and kat patterns instead.
Never played osu!? Install the game and play your first map →
The four osu! modes
- What is osu! mania? Available on DanceGAI
- What is osu! standard? Beta on DanceGAI
- osu! taiko Coming soon on DanceGAI
- What is osu! catch? Coming soon on DanceGAI