ByteBeat

LEARN THE APP, AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE ByteBeat has never explained itself. This release is entirely about fixing that. GETTING STARTED A short tour on first launch, covering the seven things you cannot use the app without: play, the formula, applying an edit without stopping the sound, the preset library, drawing in Sound Canvas, and where the language reference lives. Skip it whenever you like — it is always under Learn. HOW BYTEBEAT WORKS Every control in the app, grouped into chapters, from Reset t to the seed behind a canvas mutation. When a future update adds something, you are shown only the new sections, and they stay marked until you have read them. WRITING FORMULAS The part that was missing. A reference to the language itself, with 27 examples you can load and play, or insert straight into the editor: • What t actually is, and what your number becomes in Bytebeat, Signed Bytebeat and Floatbeat • Classic and JS-big side by side — including why a formula you found online might need JS-big, and why a hex number is a syntax error in Classic • The full operator table in precedence order, with what each symbol does musically • The six patterns everything is built from: an oscillator, a step counter, an envelope, a hex note table, noise and drums, and mixing without wrapping • A complete twenty-line track — lead, bass, kick and hats — assembled one part at a time • Every function and constant JS-big gives you • And the mistakes that cost an evening: a patch that runs but is silent, division behaving differently in each mode, and 32-bit overflow It opens from Learn, and from a new button in the code editor — where you are when you are actually stuck.