Tools: New Show Hn: Beats, A Web-based Drum Machine 2026
Hello all!
I've been an avid fan of Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering since I found out about them. I even own an EP-133 K.O. II today, which I love.
A couple of months ago, Reddit user andiam03 shared a Google Sheet with some drum patterns [1]. I thought it was a very cool way to share and understand beats.
During the weekend I coded a basic version of this app I am sharing today. I iterated over it in my free time, and yesterday I felt like I had a pretty good version to share with y'all.
It's not meant to be a sequencer but rather a way to experiment with beats and basic sounds, save them, and use them in your songs. It also has a sharing feature with a link.
It was built using Tone.js [2], Stimulus [3] and deployed in Render [4] as a static website. I used an LLM to read the Tone.js documentation and generate sounds, since I have no knowledge about sound production, and modified from there.
Anyway, hope you like it! I had a blast building it.
[0]: https://teenage.engineering
[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GMRWxEqcZGdBzJg52soe...
[3]: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev
[4]: http://render.com
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