Thirteen styles · 47 patterns · or a blank bar · synthesized live
Presets
Live moves
Click a cell to place a note; click it again to remove it. Accent makes a note louder and brighter. Slide glides into the next note, which is the acid trick. Notes are relative to the key, so changing the key moves the whole line.
Every style sits at its tempo, slow on the left. Click a name to load it, even while it plays; arrow keys step through them in tempo order. The ruler jumps from 146 to 165 BPM, marked //. Blank (dashed) is an empty bar with a plain kit, to start from nothing. On a phone the styles are a list, slow to fast.
The pattern drawn as a clock: one ring per row, kick in the middle, chord outside, one dot per step. Bigger dots are accents, arcs are held notes, the light wedge is the playhead. In the centre: the sound as a wave, and the tempo.
Eight rows, sixteen steps: one bar, four beats of four. Each row has four buttons: M mute, S solo, FX sends the row into the echo and reverb, and the lock keeps the row as it is when you change style. Click a row name to mute it too, or press 1 to 8. On a phone the grid shows half a bar at a time: Steps 1-8 or Steps 9-16, and Follow keeps up with the playhead.
The bass as notes, from the key's root (underlined) up an octave; black keys are shown filled. Click to place or move a note, click it again to remove it. Accent makes a note louder and brighter; Slide glides it into the next note, the acid trick.
A front panel of knobs. Drag a knob up or down (or focus it and use the arrow keys, Shift for bigger steps); double-click puts back the style's value. The Drums row tunes and shortens the kick, snare, hats and clap; the Tone row shapes the bass, the chord and the space (echo feedback and level, reverb). The menus below pick the sounds: kick, perc, bass and chord, the voicing and the echo time (a 16th to two bars). Kick sound swaps the style's kick for a punchy, booming, soft or hard one. Master on the right holds the DJ filter, drive, sidechain (duck), swing and the tape hiss level.
Patterns are one-bar sketches of each style, simplified for learning. Every sound is synthesized in your browser. Saved presets stay in this browser only.