Orbeat: Drum Machine

Chih Han Lin · Music

5.0 6 ratings Free

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Aug 26, 2026
Rating ★ 4.75 → 5
Aug 26, 2026
New version 1.2.0 → 1.3.1

You asked for these. EXPORT AS MIDI Bounce the pattern out as a MIDI file and drop it straight into your DAW. Every lane lands on its General MIDI drum note, so it hits the right pad in whatever you open it with — and your swing, probability rolls and polymeter phases all come across exactly as you hear them here. Sitting on a polymeter groove where the lanes only line up every fifteen bars? Pick Full and the export runs one complete cycle, so the loop actually loops. TUNE ANY LANE A new Sound tab gives every lane a tune control, four octaves wide. Pitch a kick down until it's a sub, tighten a hi-hat, or take a sample you imported and play it high and short. Your own one-shots resample properly, so a vocal chop or a found sound becomes an instrument you can play across the circle. Free for everyone. EXPORTS THAT SAY WHAT THEY ARE Every bounce used to land as orbeat-4bar.wav — the same name every time, so the third loop you saved turned into "orbeat-4bar 3.wav" and you were left opening files to work out which was which. An export now carries the beat's name, its length and its tempo: orbeat-Midnight-Drive-4bar-124bpm.wav A WAV file has nowhere to keep a tempo, so the filename is the thing that tells your DAW — and you, three months from now — how fast the loop runs. START FROM THE TOP A new button beside the tempo sends the pattern back to the first beat, so you can audition a change from the downbeat instead of wherever the circle happened to be. Thanks for playing. Tell us what you'd love to see next: zhiii0x@gmail.com

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Average rating history over the observed period. 4.8 4.9 5 Aug 26 18:46 Aug 27 06:48 Aug 27 18:50 Aug 28 06:51 Aug 28 18:53

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About

Orbeat is a drum machine in the round. Instead of a grid, your rhythm lives on a glowing mandala — concentric lanes of light that orbit a single play button. Tap the rings, watch the playhead sweep, and feel the groove move. Built to be played, not programmed. Open it and you're already making beats. A CIRCULAR SEQUENCER — UP TO TWELVE LANES Six lanes wrap the screen as rings, and the circle can grow to twelve: the mandala opens a second page of rings in its own electric color set, so every lane keeps its full size. Tap to place hits, lock a lane you love, mute and solo as you build the groove layer by layer. The whole pattern turns as it plays. FOUR DRUM KITS Classic, Acoustic, Glitch, and 8-bit — one tap reskins every voice while your pattern stays put. From clean and punchy to broken and chiptune. BRING YOUR OWN SOUNDS Build a custom kit and drop your own audio into any lane — WAV, AIFF or mp3, up to ten seconds, played at its original pitch and in stereo. Imported samples run clean to the output, while the lanes you leave alone keep their synth voice, so a hi-hat you recorded yourself sits right next to Orbeat's own drums. Your first custom kit is free. GENERATORS THAT SURPRISE YOU Roll the dice for an instant pattern, or use Euclidean rhythms to spread hits evenly around a ring. Like what you hear? Tap the ring to write it in and edit by hand. MAKE IT BREATHE, MAKE IT DRIFT Add swing to push the feel off the grid, draw velocity per step for accents that live, and pan each lane across the stereo field. With Probability, hits fire by chance; with polymeter, each lane gets its own length so the phases drift in and out of sync. TAKE IT ANYWHERE Bounce any loop to a stereo WAV — named with the beat, its length and its tempo, so it still makes sense in your DAW next month — or run Orbeat as an AUv3 instrument with MIDI in & out — sequence other instruments, or play Orbeat's lanes from your host's piano roll inside GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and other AUv3 hosts. Standalone, play the pads live from any MIDI controller and sync the whole groove to external MIDI clock. PLAY IN SYNC WITH THE ROOM Ableton Link keeps Orbeat in time with every Link-enabled app and device on your network — Ableton Live, AUM, Loopy, a friend's iPad across the table. Tempo follows the session, start and stop are shared, and everyone stays in phase. No cables, no setup. PLAY FREE. UNLOCK ONCE. The full instrument is free forever — every kit, the six-lane circle, Euclidean generators, swing, velocity, pan, your first custom kit with your own samples, MIDI in & out, and Ableton Link. Orbeat Pro is a single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever) that unlocks room to grow the circle to twelve lanes, plus Probability, polymeter, WAV export, unlimited saved beats, and extra custom kits. Made for iPhone and iPad. No account, no ads, no tracking — your beats never leave your device unless you share them. Tap the rings. Make it move.

What's new · 1.3.1

You asked for these. EXPORT AS MIDI Bounce the pattern out as a MIDI file and drop it straight into your DAW. Every lane lands on its General MIDI drum note, so it hits the right pad in whatever you open it with — and your swing, probability rolls and polymeter phases all come across exactly as you hear them here. Sitting on a polymeter groove where the lanes only line up every fifteen bars? Pick Full and the export runs one complete cycle, so the loop actually loops. TUNE ANY LANE A new Sound tab gives every lane a tune control, four octaves wide. Pitch a kick down until it's a sub, tighten a hi-hat, or take a sample you imported and play it high and short. Your own one-shots resample properly, so a vocal chop or a found sound becomes an instrument you can play across the circle. Free for everyone. EXPORTS THAT SAY WHAT THEY ARE Every bounce used to land as orbeat-4bar.wav — the same name every time, so the third loop you saved turned into "orbeat-4bar 3.wav" and you were left opening files to work out which was which. An export now carries the beat's name, its length and its tempo: orbeat-Midnight-Drive-4bar-124bpm.wav A WAV file has nowhere to keep a tempo, so the filename is the thing that tells your DAW — and you, three months from now — how fast the loop runs. START FROM THE TOP A new button beside the tempo sends the pattern back to the first beat, so you can audition a change from the downbeat instead of wherever the circle happened to be. Thanks for playing. Tell us what you'd love to see next: zhiii0x@gmail.com

Details

DeveloperChih Han Lin
ReleasedJun 2026
UpdatedJul 2026
Version1.3.1
Size4.5 MB
RequiresiOS 16.0 or later
Age rating4+
LanguagesEnglish
PriceFree
Categories MusicEntertainment
Bundle IDtoday.nono.orbeat.app