Free tools
Small music tools that do one thing well.
Each one works right here in your browser, with nothing to install and no account to make. They all make real sound, and they all explain what they are doing.
Drum pattern generator
Pick a style or press Surprise me. Click any step to change it, press Play to hear it loop, and read why the pattern works.
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Chord progression generator
Choose a key, choose a progression, press Play. You will see the name of each chord and the notes inside it, and one sentence about why these chords sound good in this order.
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Online metronome
Set a tempo, or tap one in, and press Start. The first beat of each bar is accented so you always know where you are.
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BPM tapper
Put a song on, tap the pad or the space bar on every beat, and read the tempo. It averages your last eight taps, so it settles down after a bar or two.
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BPM and key finder
Drop in an audio file and get its BPM and its key in a few seconds. The file is decoded and measured by your own browser and goes nowhere else, so it works on unreleased music, on client work, and on a plane.
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Sample chopper
Drop in a sound, mark the part you want, and cut it into slices. Play the slices from your keyboard, click them into a sixteen step loop, shuffle them, and download the result.
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Scale explorer
Pick a root note and a scale and it lights up on a playable keyboard, numbered by step. Hear the chords it makes.
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Stem splitter
Upload a song and get back four tracks: the drums, the bass, the vocals and everything else. Mute and solo them to hear how the record was built, download them, or send one straight to the studio to chop into an instrument of your own.
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These are pieces of something bigger.
The studio puts the drum grid, the chords, a sound designer and an arranger in one place, with a co-producer that explains what it changes. It is free to start.