[HN Gopher] Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine
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Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine
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...
[2]: https://tonejs.github.io [3]: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev
[4]: http://render.com
Author : kinduff
Score : 13 points
Date : 2026-01-18 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (beats.lasagna.pizza)
(TXT) w3m dump (beats.lasagna.pizza)
| nilram wrote:
| Not great waveforms, to my ear. Decent UI for a first cut --
| trying it out, I found it really addictive. Makes me want to
| learn more about beats.
| hmokiguess wrote:
| Nice UI but your examples don't feel right to me. Bossa nova
| sounds nothing like bossa nova.
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