In this article, you can find 5 free online tools to make beats and music with. The best thing about them is that they work without any registration or login details, so whenever you feel like jamming out you can simply hit the link and start making. These websites are a great way to get hooked on finger drumming and if you are new to music making as a whole, they serve as an amazing and fun experience to get into more advanced music production.
Patatap
Patatap is a collaborative audio visual project by Japan based music duo Lullatones and Jono Brandel. Together they created a wonderful online music maker that’s not only great sounding but also very nice to look at. Sounds and samples are spread across the entire keyboard from A-Z. By pressing the spacebar you can load a new sound collection that also comes with a new set of colorful visuals. Unfortunately, it does not feature any loop or tempo functions but it’s an amazingly fun tool to practice your finger drumming skills.
HTML5 Drum Machine
https://html5drummachine.com/virtual-drum-machine/
‘HTML5 Drum Machine’ is a free online instrument inspired by the iconic Roland TR-808 rhythm composer. 5 different drum kits in the genres of hip hop, electro, house, techno and acoustic are available with integrated tempo, volume and tune controls – allowing you to make analogue type beats in a very fun and intuitive way. What’s super handy is that you can switch to a new drum kit but keep your programmed drum pattern going. Additionally if you want to switch to your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) you can simply export your drum loop as a wav file and continue working in Ableton, FL Studio, Logic and co. We really love how analogue sounding the samples are and spent a decent amount jamming along our newly created rhythms.
Typedrummer
Typedrummer is one of the most fun online music websites out there. There isn’t too much to explain or say other than to try out different words and phrases to see how they sound. You can switch between two sound kits – the default one is drum focused and the second one introduces more melodic elements for you to play around with.
Words for you to try out:
type, cabbage, endurance, cosmos, okay wow
Sampulator
Sampulator is a clean looking online sequencer that’s perfect for making quick beats. 45 samples in total are playable across your entire keyboard with integrated metronome and tempo control. Hit shift to record your jam and don’t worry about the exact placement, you can easily edit your hits by dragging them to the left or the right in the timeline below.
Chrome Music Lab
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Chrome Music Lab is a playful website that inspires people and especially kids to learn and make music in a more accessible way with hands-on experiments. The project explores music and its connections to science, math and art. Not only are the simplified technical tools on the page wholesome but also very educational. After exploring all the individual tools like the Spectrogram, Harmonics or the Oscillator you can visit the song maker to put your newly gained knowledge to the test.
When you are still lusting for more, don’t worry we got you covered! Our debut sample pack ‘Lofi Fusion‘ contains lots of full drum loops that you can easily drag and drop into your projects to get quick ideas going.