Orbeat: Drum Machine

You asked for these. EXPORT AS MIDI Bounce the pattern out as a MIDI file and drop it straight into your DAW. Every lane lands on its General MIDI drum note, so it hits the right pad in whatever you open it with — and your swing, probability rolls and polymeter phases all come across exactly as you hear them here. Sitting on a polymeter groove where the lanes only line up every fifteen bars? Pick Full and the export runs one complete cycle, so the loop actually loops. TUNE ANY LANE A new Sound tab gives every lane a tune control, four octaves wide. Pitch a kick down until it's a sub, tighten a hi-hat, or take a sample you imported and play it high and short. Your own one-shots resample properly, so a vocal chop or a found sound becomes an instrument you can play across the circle. Free for everyone. EXPORTS THAT SAY WHAT THEY ARE Every bounce used to land as orbeat-4bar.wav — the same name every time, so the third loop you saved turned into "orbeat-4bar 3.wav" and you were left opening files to work out which was which. An export now carries the beat's name, its length and its tempo: orbeat-Midnight-Drive-4bar-124bpm.wav A WAV file has nowhere to keep a tempo, so the filename is the thing that tells your DAW — and you, three months from now — how fast the loop runs. START FROM THE TOP A new button beside the tempo sends the pattern back to the first beat, so you can audition a change from the downbeat instead of wherever the circle happened to be. Thanks for playing. Tell us what you'd love to see next: zhiii0x@gmail.com