A multiplayer beat maker in the browser
Make beats together in real time: a pattern sequencer, piano roll, song timeline and mixer on the big screen, and every friend editing from their own phone.
What's inside
- Patterns: every track has A, B, C… patterns of 1 to 16 bars, with a step grid on the phone.
- Piano roll: draw, select, move and resize notes, with velocity per note, snap from 1/4 to 1/32 and triplets, quantize, transpose.
- Song timeline: clips, fades, mute, split, and automation lanes you can record from the effects pad or draw by hand.
- Sounds: sampled drum kits, synth bass and keys with presets, wavetables, sampled instruments, and a sampler you can fill from the phone's microphone.
- Mixer: volume and pan per channel and per drum voice, a 6-band EQ and a compressor with a tube mode.
- Effects pad: filter, delay, drive and reverb on an XY pad, with motion loops.
Made for playing together
- Every phone is locked to one clock, so live hits from different phones land together.
- Edits from any phone show up everywhere at once, and each player has their own undo.
- Easy mode for friends who don't produce; Advanced for free timing, velocity and every note.
Good for
- Sketching ideas with friends in the studio or on the couch.
- A live set where the crowd plays the drums.
- Showing someone how a beat is built, one track at a time.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. No ads, no paywall and no watermark. Only the host signs in.
Can I use the built-in sounds in my own releases?
Yes. Audio you record with Combinator, including the built-in sounds, can go into your own music, including commercial releases. You may not redistribute the sounds themselves as a sample pack.
What can I export?
The audio of the mix (recorded as you play, plus the last five minutes kept in the background on a laptop), and a song file that opens again in Combinator.
Does it work with a MIDI keyboard?
Yes, on the host screen in Chrome or Edge: pads from C1, keys as they are.