Can I turn one drum down or mute it?
Yes. Open Mix under the grid: each drum has its own volume and a Mute button, and both work while the beat plays, so you can drop the kick for a breakdown or turn a loud hi-hat down. The mix is saved and goes into the WAV download too.
Can I make a pattern longer than one bar?
Yes. Set Bars to 2 or 4 and the pattern loops over all of them. New bars start as copies of the bars before, which makes a fill quick: keep bars 1 to 3 and change the end of bar 4. The share link and the saved beat keep every bar.
How does the drum machine make its sounds?
Every drum is synthesized in your browser: the kick is a falling tone, the snare and hi-hats are shaped noise, in the style of classic analog drum machines. Nothing is downloaded, so it starts instantly and works offline once the page has loaded.
What does swing do?
Swing delays every second sixteenth note, which turns a stiff, even rhythm into a shuffle. 0% keeps it straight. At 50% each pair of sixteenths plays long-short in a 2 to 1 ratio, the triplet shuffle, which drum machines that count swing from 50% call about 66%. Higher values push the second note later still, and small amounts loosen a beat without making it sound like a shuffle.
Can I use the beats in my own music?
Yes. The loops you make and download are yours to use, including in songs and videos. The WAV is exactly four bars at your tempo (a one or two bar pattern repeats to fill them), with any sound still ringing at the end carried over to the start, so it loops without a gap in any music app.
How do I share a beat?
Press Copy share link. The link holds the whole pattern, the tempo and the swing, so whoever opens it hears exactly your beat. Nothing is stored on a server.