We Are Various vs Drum Rack

Beats and pixels. Demos and expos. Rewinds and flashlights. Camera and musica obscura. Soul, jazz, electronics, indie, rap, folk, wave, uplifting or downtempo, talkie or non-stop, soundfile or seven inch, vocal or instrumental. Magnified by the USA Import soundsystem. Beamed into the great wide open. WAV is not just radio. We host label specials, tastings and theme shows, give air to dedicated producers, invest in podcasts that make a difference, invite artists from every field. All this in front of a virtual and a live audience, since our studio is part of De Studio & Het Bos, 2 locations in the centre of Antwerp. Our team consists of people with experience in music and media, design and fashion. We Are Various (and so are you).

Drum Rack builds every drum sound from scratch. No samples anywhere — the kick, snare, hat and clap are synthesised as you play them, which is why a kick can drop from 200 Hz to 49 Hz along a curve you draw with your finger. WHAT IT DOES Four synthesised voices, each with its own controls. Draw the pitch envelope of the kick and the snare by hand: drag a point, add a point, bend the curve between two points. Watch the rendered waveform change as you go. A 32-step sequencer with per-step velocity, timing nudge and ratchets, so a single step can hold a roll of up to eight hits. Time signatures from 3/4 to 7/4, grids from 1/8 to 1/32 including triplets. Eighteen genre presets, from house and techno to jungle, boom bap and reggaeton. Each one loads a full kit and a pattern to start from. Export a loop as a WAV file, or the pattern as MIDI. The MIDI carries velocity, nudge, ratchets and time signature, and lands on the General MIDI drum map — drop it on a drum rack in your own DAW and it plays on your own kit. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Your patterns stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded. FROM THE LAB Drum Rack is part of Lumlux Art Lab, a set of free browser tools for people who make music. The same drum machine runs on the website, so you can try it before installing anything. Made in Antwerp by FDR-Sound.