Beats

Creative

drum machine

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160points
48comments
#391of 4,366 in 2026
Top 9%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

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

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Simple, instant, fun UI

    From 4 comments
  • Scanline visual style

    From 2 comments
  • 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 HN
    • Really 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 HN
    • I'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 HN
    • Same, with Firefox on Linux (via Flatpak). The UI's great, though.
      yellowapple on HN
    • This 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 HN
    • Nice 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 HN
    • 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 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 HN
    • Very 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
  • Randomize button

    From 1 comment

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

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 HN
    • Love 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

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