Online Drum Machine & Beat Maker

Make a beat in one bar

Press Play to hear the starting pattern. Pick Kick, Clap or Snare, or Hats, then tap the large steps to add or remove that part. The four rows each represent one beat; the four positions in a row divide that beat into sixteenths.

This workspace makes one four-beat bar. Try a single change, hear what happens and use Undo to bring the previous pattern back. Clear removes the hits from your pattern; Undo can recover them. No music theory or signup is needed.

Build rhythm with three different jobs

The kick gives a low pulse, the snare or clap adds a backbeat, and the hats divide the space between them. A common House starting point puts kicks on all four beats and claps on beats two and four. These are starting ideas, not rules about a genre.

Tempo changes how fast the bar moves. Straight, Light and Heavy swing change the spacing within each pair of sixteenths: the second position arrives later as swing increases. If your pattern has no hits on those positions, changing swing will not move any notes.

Keep the pattern or keep the sound

The drums are short, fixed excerpts of pre-made TunePal stems. The tool arranges them in your browser; it does not call an AI generation service or spend credits. WAV contains the rendered one-bar audio loop, including sample tails that wrap around the bar.

MIDI carries the note positions, velocities and tempo, with swing written into the timing. Your music software supplies its own drum sounds. A pattern link restores the editor without starting sound. Opening the separate TunePal app does not automatically import this beat.

Common questions