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Producers and beatmakers
Rough out a boom bap or trap drum pattern in a few clicks, export the MIDI and play it with your own drum kit in FL Studio, Ableton Live or Logic Pro.
Online Drum Machine
Click steps on the grid or generate a four-bar groove in one of 30 styles, change it until it sits right, and take the MIDI with you.
Free to play, edit and download as MIDI, WAV or MP3. No signup required.
Kick on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4, straight eighth-note hats.
100 BPM
40%
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Bar 1 of 4
HitAccentGhost note
59 notes · 4 ghost notes · 4 bars
Click a step to go from hit to accent to ghost note to off. With a step focused, Space plays or stops and the arrow keys move.
Every note in the pattern.
Keep working on your beat
Generate a full beatPick a style, tempo and mood and get a finished instrumental as audio.Add chords and bassWrite a chord progression and hear it with bass and drums.Keep editing the MIDIOpen the exported file in a multitrack editor and refine every note.Find a tempo by tappingTap along to a song to get its BPM, then set it here.
Program a drum beat by hand or let a style write it
This drum sequencer does not leave you with an empty grid. Pick one of 30 styles and get four bars: the backbone of the style first, then ghost notes, open hats and a fill as you raise the density. Every step stays editable.
How it works
From the first click to a drum loop in your DAW
Step 1
Start with a groove
Choose a style such as Boom Bap, House or Bossa Nova and the grid fills with its groove; select Generate for another variation. Or clear the grid and click in your own beat one step at a time.
Step 2
Shape it by ear
Click a step to switch between hit, accent and ghost note. Adjust tempo, swing and density, and solo the backbone or the cymbals to hear what each layer does.
Step 3
Take it with you
Download a MIDI file for your DAW, or the loop as WAV or MP3. Copy a link to reopen the same pattern on another device. Free, without signing in.
What you can do
An online drum machine with a drum beat generator built in
The step grid, playback, the MIDI file and the audio downloads all read the same notes, so the drum pattern you export is the one you hear.
30 styles of drum beats, written by rule
Boom bap, trap, house, drum and bass, reggaeton, bossa nova, funk, rock, jazz swing and 21 more, each with its own backbone, usual tempo and swing. Select Generate again for a new variation in the same style.
Density, swing and ghost notes
Density decides how much detail sits on the backbone: ghost notes, extra kicks, open hats, a crash and a closing fill. Swing pushes the off-beat sixteenths toward a shuffle, up to a full triplet feel.
Program every step yourself
Like a hardware drum sequencer, the grid has a row for each of eleven drums and cymbals and a column for each step. Click a step to cycle it through hit, accent and ghost note while the loop keeps playing.
Hear one layer at a time
Drop the ghost notes, listen to them alone, or solo the backbone or the cymbals, so you can hear what each part adds to a drum pattern.
The previous version stays
Generating a groove or changing style never discards the one you had. Up to eight earlier versions stay in a row of buttons, so you can switch back and forth and compare.
MIDI drum patterns for your DAW
Export a standard MIDI file on the General MIDI drum map, with tempo, swing, accents and ghost notes kept, or download the loop as WAV or MP3. Copy link carries the whole pattern to another device.
Who it's for
Drum patterns for producers, drummers, songwriters and teachers
Sketch the groove here, then take it wherever you make music.
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Drummers
Hear how a style is built before you play it: solo the backbone, bring in the ghost notes and the hats, then slow the tempo down and practice along with the loop.
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Songwriters
Put a steady drum beat under a new idea at the tempo and feel you hear in your head, and download it as WAV or MP3 to sing or play over.
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Music teachers and students
Show what swing, ghost notes or four on the floor sound like, one layer at a time, and let students click in a groove of their own.
FAQ
Online drum machine questions
Press Play to hear the starting groove, then click any step on the grid: one click adds a hit, the next makes it an accent, then a ghost note, then clears it. To have a beat written for you, pick a style; select Generate for another variation of it. Tempo, swing and the steps can all be changed while the loop plays.
Yes. Export saves a standard MIDI file that uses the General MIDI drum map on channel 10, so any DAW or drum plugin that follows that map plays the right drums. The file keeps the tempo, swing, accents and ghost notes. WAV and MP3 downloads are in the same menu when you want audio instead.
No AI model is involved. Each of the 30 styles has a written backbone plus optional layers such as ghost notes, extra kicks, open hats and fills, and the density setting decides how many of them play. The drum pattern generator follows those rules, so the same style, density and variation always give the same groove.
Thirty styles in seven groups. Pop: Pop 8ths, Pop Ballad, Dance Pop, Indie Pop and 6/8 Ballad. Rock: Rock, Hard Rock, Pop Punk and Half-time Rock. Funk and soul: Funk, Neo Soul, Motown and Disco. Hip-hop: Boom Bap, Trap, Lo-fi and Drill. Electronic: House, Techno, UK Garage, Drum & Bass, Dubstep and Synthwave. Latin and world: Reggaeton, Bossa Nova, Reggae One Drop and Afrobeats. Jazz and blues: Jazz Swing, Blues Shuffle and Waltz.
A ghost note is a very quiet stroke between the main hits, most often on the snare, that adds motion without changing where the beat falls. Swing delays every second sixteenth note so a straight groove leans toward a shuffle; at 100% the delay is a full triplet. Jazz Swing and Blues Shuffle are written on a triplet grid, so their swing is already in the pattern.
A pattern is four bars long. Most styles use 16 steps per bar, one for each sixteenth note, while the triplet styles, the waltz and the 6/8 ballad use 12. Each step can be a normal hit, an accent or a ghost note on any of eleven drums and cymbals.
Yes. The current pattern, tempo and settings are saved in this browser, so the beat is still there when you come back. Copy link in the Export menu writes the whole pattern into the link, and opening that link shows the same groove on any device. Nothing is uploaded.
Yes. Playing, editing, generating and every download are free and need no account. The drum machine runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.
Only for drums: this page makes drum patterns that you edit note by note. For a finished instrumental with drums, 808s and melody, use the AI beat maker: pick a style, tempo and mood and it produces the audio.
Your next drum beat is a click away
Pick a style or click in your own pattern. The online drum machine is free, runs in your browser and exports MIDI, WAV and MP3.