BEATSURFING Performer vs ESTË

A companion app for playing BEATSURFING plugins, starting with DRUW, the drum kit generator. Once connected to your plugin, the app lets you perform your drums instead of programming them. Bringing the music-making experience of the acclaimed Playground and Beatsurfing 2 apps into your DAW.

ESTË - Metronome is the metronome built by people who play live. Precise, sample-accurate timing with the focus serious musicians actually want every day — on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. CORE - 30–300 BPM: tap tempo, fine tuning, direct numeric entry - Time signatures from 2/4 to 12/8, plus custom (any numerator over /2 /4 /8 /16) - Per-beat accents: strong, accent, muted or silent - Subdivisions: 8th, triplet, 16th, dotted 8th; each with its own volume - Curated sound packs: Digital, Woodblock, Rim - Per-voice pan and volume mixer, plus master volume BUILT FOR THE STAGE - Setlists with song sections: each section keeps its own BPM, time signature, accent pattern, subdivision and polyrhythm, advancing after a fixed number of bars or on your cue - Speed trainer: raise the tempo automatically as you play - Polyrhythms: a second cross-rhythm voice (4 vs 3, 5 vs 4…) with its own timbre and pan - Ableton Link: share tempo with other Link apps and devices on your network APPLE WATCH - Standalone, or paired with your iPhone - A haptic click on your wrist: feel the beat with the screen off DESIGNED WITH CARE - A distinctive, screen-recordable rhythm visualisation - A dark, focused interface with an adaptive layout on iPad - Italian and English PRIVACY No tracking. No analytics. No accounts. No data collection: everything stays on your device. Ableton Link talks only to devices on your local network. ESTË - Metronome is free. An optional tip jar lets you support development if you’d like. Every feature is free for everyone.