Nothing to install
It runs in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge on any laptop or desktop. No download, no plugin, no account to try the free tools.
No install, no manual
Open a tab. Press play. Change one thing.
That is the whole of the first minute. The loop already sounds good, every note you can click belongs to the key, and when you want to know why something works, you ask, and the answer is about your song.
Make a little noise
Free to start. Private until you share.
Easy does not mean a toy. It means the hard parts are handled underneath: the key, the timing, the sounds, the vocabulary. What is left is the part that is fun.
A grid instead of a timeline
Sixteen pads make a bar. Lit pads play. You can see the whole rhythm at once, which a timeline of waveforms never lets a beginner do.
An assistant that explains
Ask for a busier hi-hat and watch the hi-hat row change, with one sentence about why. Do not like it? One press undoes the whole turn.
The first ten minutes
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Press play.
Every new project opens with drums, a bass and keys already playing together. You start from something that works.
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2
Click a pad.
Add a kick, move the snare, halve the hats. Each change is heard the next time the loop comes round.
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Ask why.
Point at any musical word for a plain explanation. Or ask the co-producer to make a change and read what it did.
Easy for a reason, not by accident.
Most browser music tools are either a DAW squeezed into a tab, with all of a DAW's forty buttons, or a generator that makes the song for you. Both are easy to start and hard to learn from. One asks you to already know what a bus is; the other never lets you see the notes.
This is an instrument built so that a first-timer can see all of it. Melodies are written as steps of a key, so a wrong note is not something you can click. Blocks transform patterns and come off again. And the assistant edits the same grid you do, so easy stays honest: you can always see what happened.
Questions people ask
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in a modern browser on a laptop or desktop. There is no app to download and no plugin to add.
Is it really free?
The free plan is the whole instrument, with a limited amount of co-producer time each month. Recording and downloading your song is free. Paid plans add more co-producer time and storage.
Does it work on a phone?
The free tools and the shared song pages do. The studio itself is built for a laptop or desktop screen, where the grid and the arranger have room.
How is this easier than GarageBand or BandLab?
Those are DAWs: timelines, tracks, mixers and plugins, which are wonderful once you know them. This is an instrument: a grid, blocks and an assistant that explains itself, made so that the first ten minutes teach you something.
The first loop is already playing.
Free to start, nothing to install, and everything you make stays yours.