Beats
Creative
drum machine
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
22 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 9 mixed, 1 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.53.
Design: 7 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, instant, fun UI
From 4 comments
This made my day. Love this, thank you!
cyrusradfar on HNVery well made!
MintyPyro on HNSimple and fun! I love it.
ssoydan on HNWow this is cool! Inspiration to try making something like this myself. The 8-bit aesthetic looks great too. It would be cool if users could edit the tones - maybe a way to…
ferg-in-japan on HN
Scanline visual style
From 2 comments
The scan line effect is very nice. Not over done like many others are.
fooqux on HNI see scanlines, I upvote. Simple as.
epiccoleman on HN
Works well on mobile and as a home-screen PWA-like app
From 2 comments
Nice job! Added to my home screen. Firefox on Android - seems to work perfectly. Any plans to develop this further? I'm not sure how doable this is but I'd love to be able to…
fallinditch on HNReally nice, loved playing with it! One small improvement: could you disable the "double tap to zoom" on mobile browsers? This happens often when you press multiple squares…
yochem on HN
Objections
Crackling or popping sounds on Firefox
From 4 comments
Lots of crackling and popping in firefox on macos, pretty cool otherwise
lagniappe on HNI'm getting a little popping on Firefox Windows, which disappears if I remove the kick step on second row of the default bosa nova. Nice work anyway, the UI is immediate and…
exodust on HNSame, with Firefox on Linux (via Flatpak). The UI's great, though.
yellowapple on HNThis is great! I can report a bit of odd sounds here and there on firefox ubuntu, but chromium ubuntu works perfect.
igleria on HN
Waveforms and bossa nova examples sound poor
From 2 comments
Not great waveforms, to my ear. Decent UI for a first cut -- trying it out, I found it really addictive. Makes me want to learn more about beats.
nilram on HNNice UI but your examples don’t feel right to me. Bossa nova sounds nothing like bossa nova.
hmokiguess on HN
Share button missing on Firefox
From 1 comment
The share button doesn't show up on Firefox for some reason? Fun stuff! It would be nice to be able to make longer patterns. Maybe by having triggers that play randomly or every…
skupig on HN
Requests
Triplets / swing support
From 2 comments
https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=lo-fi+dust&bpm=95&i0=K0100000110100001&i1=S0001101000010011&i2=H0000100011001010&i3=X1001000000000000&i4=W0110001101101010&i5=R0010101000100011…
Voltage on HNNice job! Added to my home screen. Firefox on Android - seems to work perfectly. Any plans to develop this further? I'm not sure how doable this is but I'd love to be able to…
fallinditch on HN
Longer patterns or random/every-nth triggers
From 1 comment
The share button doesn't show up on Firefox for some reason? Fun stuff! It would be nice to be able to make longer patterns. Maybe by having triggers that play randomly or every…
skupig on HN
Tap BPM and offline use
From 2 comments
Very nice. Would be great to see a "tap bpm" instead of setting numerically, also a way to run offline, and lastly a way to submit drum covers of popular tracks that used say the…
adrianwaj on HNVery neat! I had a https://www.crowdsupply.com/wee-noise-makers/wee-noise-makers-pgb-1 but I don't always carry it with me. I do have my phone though most of the time in my…
utopiah on HN
Keyboard control
From 1 comment
can we control with keyboard?
beratbozkurt0 on HN
Randomize button
From 1 comment
A randomize button would be cool.
millzlane on HN
Questions
Was AI used in building it?
From 1 comment
I really enjoyed playing around with this, thanks for sharing. You can tell a lot of care and effort went into the experience. I’m curious: did you use any AI tools while…
bicepjai on HN
What is the UI toolkit?
From 1 comment
Nice! What's the UI toolkit?
zerr on HN
Alternatives named
Pocket Operators / EP-133 K.O. II hardware
From 2 comments
Wow! This is amazing! You went great lenghs to make it complete. I really like the layers, something that I would love to add. Your sounds are very nice too, are you synthesizing…
kinduff on HNLove the UI. I think these browser-based products are great at removing the "mystery" around music making or DJing by making it accessible. All you need to do is type a URL and…
dworks on HN
Drum On (Android offline drum machine)
From 1 comment
heres an offline drum machine, "drum on" like the online one here as well, but does have static glitches. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.tube42.drum.android/
metalman on HN
Glicol live coding
From 1 comment
cool. for those who are interested, you can actually use code to control the seq like this example in Glicol: https://glicol.org/demo#minitechno
chaosprint on HN