Quiet Lab: DJ Beat Maker

A cat in headphones builds a track in front of you, and teaches you to build your own. It starts with a hat. Then a kick, a snare, a bass line, a lead, one lane at a time, and it says what it just did as it goes. Techno starts on the kick instead, the way techno does. By the end the whole grid is lit and the cats are dancing, and it rides the finale until you pick another track. LEARN TO DJ Pixel Cat teaches Build mode one short lesson at a time, on the real grid: the kick on every beat, the snare on two and four, hats, sixteenths, the pushed kick, ghost notes, swing, bass, a lead, the mix, seven genres, a break, a song's shape, your own sound, the clip. Each lesson has a target on the grid, hints, SHOW ME, lamps for a clean pass, and ranks that change the cat's headphones. Twenty two lessons, a crown at the end. The first three are free. MAKE YOUR OWN Switch to Build and the screen becomes a small studio: the grid large, five strips with a level fader, mute and solo, swing and tempo. Tap the cells you want, tap one again for an accent, press play, and it plays exactly what you put there. YOUR OWN SOUNDS Any lane can play a sound you made. Record a short take with the microphone or bring an audio file in from Files; a bass or lead lane plays your one note at every pitch. Arrange sections over your beat, with risers and drops, and the clip opens on I MADE THIS BEAT. ELEVEN GENRES, EIGHTY FOUR TRACKS House, techno, dubstep, drum and bass, rock, trap, disco, lo-fi, deep house, hip hop and rap. Every track is its own pattern, and many bring their own key, tempo, kit and swing. NEW: HIP HOP AND RAP A laid-back West Coast piano loop and a muted guitar on a straight pulse. In RAP the words run under the grid, karaoke style, lit as they are said, so you can rap along. The first house, techno, lo-fi, hip hop and rap tracks are free to watch, so you hear what you would be paying for before you pay for it. Build mode, the lessons and the other eighty tracks come with the one payment. A PIANO THAT PLAYS ITSELF Twenty six classics fall onto the keys, most of them every note of the printed edition: Für Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Clair de Lune, Chopin's Nocturne, the Raindrop Prelude, Toccata in D minor, Rondo alla Turca and nineteen more. Slow any of them down or speed them up. Für Elise is free. NOTHING IN THE MUSIC IS A RECORDING Every kick, snare, hat, bass note, lead note and piano note is generated in code as it plays, unless it is one you recorded or brought in yourself. No samples, no music files, nothing licensed from anybody, and the tempo slider changes the music, not its pitch. TWENTY NINE MACHINES THAT RUN THEMSELVES The first tab is Simulations. Nobody aims, nobody scores, nothing to lose. You set a few numbers, press Play, and watch what the rules do. Merge Flask. A stream that falls, fuses and climbs. Crusher. Two arms press, and everything they squeeze makes more. Spike Ring. A ball grows a note at a time until a spike bursts it. Function Race. A crowd of ones against one that keeps multiplying. Derivative Duel. One operator against a function, every touch takes a power off. And twenty four more. The physics is a solver written for this app. MAKE A CLIP Any machine, track, beat, lesson or piece records a run at the settings on screen, with its sound. Save it to Photos or share it. No extra purchase. HOW IT IS PAID FOR Merge Flask is free forever. Any other simulation opens with a one time purchase, or open the other twenty eight at once. DJ Beat Maker, with Build mode and the lessons, and the piano are each sold on their own, one payment each. Everything in Quiet Lab is one payment for every simulation, every track, every lesson and every piece, including the ones added later. No account, no sign in. Sound plays even when your phone is on silent, because the sound is the point. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://synappsai-web.web.app/privacy