drumbit Club

Overview

drumbit Overview

The Chrome Apps: drumbit and drumbit Plus (which were available in the Chrome Webstore) are discontinued.

Hints

Use the left and right arrow keys to adjust volumes/levels; double click in the volume control to mute (other "sliders" have custom behaviors).

Drag and drop drumbit's files onto the application window to open them. You can also use drag and drop inside the application to move panels like Panning or Filters.

Use the demos as a starting point for building your own patterns.

  1. Master volume - Main volume control. The recording level is also adjusted here.
  2. Tempo - Sets the tempo (beats per minute). Can be adjusted from 40 to 240 bpm.
  3. Swing - Adds a "swing factor" to the beat.
  4. Kit - Drum kit selection.
  5. Room Effects - Effect selection with control of level.
  6. Demos - Patterns examples.
  7. Filters - Enable/disable.
  8. Keys Mode - Let's you use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate the step sequencer.
  9. Step Sequencer - Select the beats that will play or not.
  10. Panning - Left-right distribution.
  11. Filters - Compression, lowpass-pass and high-pass filters settings.
  12. Preferences - Sets startup default values.
  13. Drumbit Club - Share your Patterns
  14. Help - Opens help page.
  15. EQ visualizer - Choose a color.
  16. Open file - Opens drumbit file previously saved.
  17. Save file - Saves in a file the rhythm patterns you created.
  18. Ellipsis Button
    1. New - Creates a new drumbit with your preferences.
    2. File Metadata - Allows you to save metadata information along with your patterns.
    3. Clear All - Clears all patterns
  19. Clear - Clears selected pattern.
  20. Record - Starts/Stops recording. After stopping generates a WAV file.
  21. Select pattern - Selects pattern to edit.
  22. Play - Plays/Stops (patterns that were filled).
  23. Track volume - Controls the volume for each track.
  24. Instrument pitch - Sets the original pitch lower or higher.

Panning

Panning
  1. Track - The track to which the the panning is applied.
  2. Pan control - Left-right distribution of the sound signal.

Filters: Compressor

Filters: Compressor
  1. Threshold - The decibel value above which the compression will start taking effect.
  2. Ratio - The amount of dB change in input for a 1 dB change in output.
  3. Attack - The amount of time (in seconds) to reduce the gain by 10dB.
  4. Release - The amount of time (in seconds) to increase the gain by 10dB.
  5. Knee - A decibel value representing the range above the threshold where the curve smoothly transitions to the "ratio" portion.

Filters: Low-pass

Filters: Low-pass
  1. Frequency - The cutoff frequency.
  2. Q - Controls how peaked the response will be at the cutoff frequency.

Filters: High-pass

Filters: High-pass
  1. Frequency - The cutoff frequency below which the frequencies are attenuated.
  2. Q - Controls how peaked the response will be at the cutoff frequency.

Preferences

Preferences
  1. Master Volume - Default master volume level at startup.
  2. Tempo - Default tempo at startup.
  3. Kit - Default drum kit at startup.
  4. Keep the Last - Enable/disable the saving in local storage of the last work done.
  5. Tooltips - Enable/disable tooltips.
  6. Keys Mode - Enable/disable Key Mode.
  7. Reset - Reset all settings to their defaults

Copy & Paste

Copy/Paste

Right click the pattern selector to copy/paste patterns (context menu).


Shortcut keys

Space bar Starts/stops playing
Ctrl + Space bar Starts/stops recording
Ctrl + c Copy selected pattern
Ctrl + v Paste into selected pattern
Shift + o Open drumbit file
Shift + s Save drumbit file
Shift + n New drumbit
Shift + l Clear selected pattern
Shift + a Clears all the patterns along with panning, volumes and pitches
Shift + m Opens the File Metadata dialog box
Shift + k Toggles on/off the Keys Mode
Shift + g Opens Panning
Shift + f Opens Filters
Shift + p Opens preferences
Shift + h Opens help page
Escape Closes panels (Panning, Filters, Preferences) or context menus

Keys Mode

Arrows right and left Navigates through the steps
Arrows up and down Navigates through the tracks
x or 0 (Numpad) Hits the selected step