Beatbay
A drum machine and beat maker · Free music app
- Works offline
- Private: stays on your device
- No account or sign-up
- Backup and restore
Beatbay: a drum machine and beat maker, free to use in your browser with no download or account.
About Beatbay
Make a beat in a minute, with every sound made in your browser as it plays: no samples, nothing to download. Eight drums across a step grid: tap a step to turn it on, drag to paint a row, and give any step an accent, a roll of two to four quick hits, a chance (so it plays only some of the time round) or a nudge early or late. Swing on sixteenths or eighths, tempo with tap tempo, and 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 5/4 or 7/8. Random always gives a beat that works, Vary changes a few steps at a time, hold Fill for a drum fill, and drag the Sweep down for a build-up and let go for the drop. Play it live on eight big pads, louder in the middle, and Record puts what you play into the pattern on the nearest step; MIDI pads work in Chrome. Twenty starter beats of our own in the styles people look for, from boom bap, house and lo-fi to trap, drill, reggaeton’s dembow and bossa nova, each with a line on what makes it. Share a beat as a link that plays as soon as it’s opened, with Remix it to make it your own, or as a square or tall video of the grid lighting up with the sound, a WAV or a picture. Four kits, two patterns and five saved beats are free; Pro adds all eight kits and mixing drums across them, patterns up to 64 steps and rows of their own length, eight patterns and song mode, a bass track and a chords track that stay in key, every starter, M4A of whole songs, video without the mark and MIDI learn. No account: your beats stay on your device.
- Eight kits, every sound made in code as it plays
- A step grid with accents, rolls, chance, nudges and swing
- Random, Vary, a Fill button and a sweep for build-ups
- Pads to play live, recording into the pattern
- Twenty starter beats in the styles people look for
- Share a beat as a link that plays and can be remixed
- Videos of the grid with the sound, and WAV
- Bass and chords tracks that stay in key (Pro)
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Price
Free to use. Optional one-time upgrade: Beatbay Pro, $2.99 (no subscription), or every upgrade in every Yuzool app with Yuzool Plus, $19.99 once. Works on iPhone, Android, Mac and PC in your browser; add it to your Home Screen to open it like an app.
Quick answers
- Is Beatbay free?
- Yes, it's free to use; Beatbay Pro is an optional $2.99 one-time upgrade, never a subscription.
- Do I need to sign up or download Beatbay?
- No: it opens in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, with no account.
- Does Beatbay upload my data?
- No, it all stays on your device, and it works offline.
Guides
- A drum machine you can play onlineA guide from Beatbay
- A free online beat makerA guide from Beatbay
- Afrobeats drum patternA guide from Beatbay
- Bossa nova rhythmA guide from Beatbay
- Drum and bass patternA guide from Beatbay
- Drum patterns for beginnersA guide from Beatbay
- Funk drum patternA guide from Beatbay
- Half-time drum beatA guide from Beatbay
- House drum patternA guide from Beatbay
- How to make a boom bap beatA guide from Beatbay
- Lo-fi hip hop beatA guide from Beatbay
- Reggaeton beat (the dembow)A guide from Beatbay
- Rock drum beatA guide from Beatbay
- Techno drum patternA guide from Beatbay
- Trap drum patternA guide from Beatbay
