Bitbop vs Drum Rack

Tap the colored pads and a tiny band plays along. Bitbop is a chiptune groovebox where every pad is in key, so you can't hit a wrong note. Make a song in seconds. Pick a sound, tap a color, and a bassline, sparkle and drums lock in around you. There is nothing to read and no menu maze. Beginners sound great at once, and there is plenty underneath for people who want to go deep. FIVE SOUND WORLDS Every world is its own synthesizer, built from scratch: - Bitbop - the signature chiptune sound, PWM lead and chip supersaw - Techno - a resonant lead, a clean sub and a punchy driven kit - Retro - a clear pulse melody, square chimes and a smooth triangle bass - Classical - bowed strings and a plucked harp in a concert-hall reverb - Dancehall - a syncopated sub, a skank chop and a steppers riddim 1,000+ SONGS TO START FROM Load a folk tune, a public-domain classic, a rave or techno groove, house, trance, drum and bass, lo-fi, hip-hop, afrobeat, latin, raga and more, then pull it apart and make it yours. Or tap Surprise me and let Bitbop sketch a new song. 100 VISUALIZER LOOKS Turn any jam into a full-screen light show: neon highways, jellyfish, kaleidoscopes, laser harps, 3D tunnels and more. Every look follows the notes you actually hear. SHARE IT - Export a video for stories and feeds, with the visuals you see on screen - Export WAV audio or MIDI for any music app - Share a song as a link or QR code - Go Live: friends watch your jam unfold in real time from a link, no app needed PLAY YOUR WAY - Tempo from 65 to 250 BPM, a vibe filter and a feel control for swing and groove - Loops from 8 steps up to 8-bar songs, with a fader for lead, bass, bell and drums - Undo, erase, copy and paste, and lock a control to keep it between songs PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No trackers. Bitbop works fully offline and your songs stay on your device. Only anonymous usage counts are sent, and you can turn that off in Settings. Tap a color. Make a banger.

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.