FrameBeat Frame Drum & Step Sequencer

Strike it by hand, or program two lines that count the same bar in different numbers. Play it right here in your browser — or take it with you on Mac and iPad.

Download on the App Store(opens the App Store in a new tab)

Click the drum, or focus it and drum along on Q W E / I O P, and ring the bell on B

Bass Tone Click
Top line
3
Bottom line — sets the pulse
4

One bar, counted two ways at once.

The bottom line sets the tempo and the length of the bar. The top line slices that same bar into its own number of steps — three against four, five against seven, anything up to sixteen. However far apart they wander, both lines land together on beat one.

Beat oneOne bar

Take the drum with you, on Mac and iPad.

FrameBeat is also a native app — the same instrument, rebuilt in SwiftUI, with one App Store listing for both.

Download on the App Store(opens the App Store in a new tab)
Synthesized, not sampled
The synth engine and scheduler are ported from this page, so every hit is still generated live on your device.
Keys under your fingers
Drum along on Q W E and I O P on the Mac — and on iPad, too, with a hardware keyboard attached.
Nothing leaves the device
No accounts, no analytics, no network access. Your pattern lives in memory until you close the app.

Details in the privacy policy.