Pulse16 – Beat Maker & Sampler

Pulse16 is a groovebox for your phone. Sample a sound or pick a built-in one, put it on 16 pads, add an 808 or an acid line with slides, and switch patterns while the beat keeps running.

Four tracks, 16 steps, eight patterns. Tracks A to C each play a sample, a kit of 16 sounds, an 808 or a mono synth. Track D is a synth with an arpeggiator.

START WITH A GROOVE
• Six complete loops to start from: Acid Drive, Peak Time, Neon Nights, Midnight Run, Kit Jam and French Filter. One tap loads drums, bass line and tempo.
• Ten built-in techno and synthwave drum sounds

SEQUENCER
• Tap the 4×4 pads to set steps; the playing step lights up
• Velocity per step: long-press a step
• Every track can have its own length from 1 to 16 steps
• Eight patterns A to H; while playing, the next one starts on the next bar
• Copy, paste and clear patterns; copy and shift single tracks
• Duplicate repeats a track's steps and doubles its length
• 20 to 300 BPM, tap tempo

SAMPLER
• Load WAV, AIFF, MP3 or FLAC files, or record with the microphone
• Trim on the waveform, tune up or down by two octaves with fine tuning
• Low-pass or high-pass filter and distortion on every sample

KIT MODE
• 16 sounds on the pads of one track, each with its own sample
• Finger-drum and record into the pattern with Rec, in time, with erase and undo
• Volume, pan, tune, filter, distortion and choke groups per pad

808
• Synthesized kick and bass with a note per step
• Decay, punch, click and drive
• Slide steps glide into the next note without a new attack

SYNTH
• Sine, square, saw and triangle, sub oscillator, unison, filter with envelope, four LFOs, distortion and reverb
• Arpeggiator with seven chord types
• Draw automation curves over the pads: cutoff, resonance, drive, distortion and reverb per step
• The same synth plays mono on tracks A to C, with slides like a TB-303
• Nine factory sounds, from Berlin Minimal and Acid 303 to Outrun Bass

MIXER
• Volume and pan per track
• Pump per track: ducks on every beat, like sidechain compression
• Reverb send on tracks A to C
• Boost: multiband compression on the master

MIDI
• USB MIDI controllers: map knobs, faders and pads with MIDI learn
• MIDI clock over USB: follow a drum machine or DAW, or send clock to your gear

On tablets, sound, mixer and presets stay open next to the pads.

Everything is free. Saving projects and your own presets is a one-time purchase, no subscription. No account, no ads, no tracking, works offline.

Pulse16 is made by one developer in Germany. Feedback and bug reports go straight to me: pulse16@anzalichi.de

Recent changes:
New in 1.8: Sidechain pump on every track – the beat breathes with the kick. Boost: multiband compression on the master with low, mid and high. A low-pass or high-pass filter on every sample track and kit pad. Reverb send for drums, samples and vocals; the synth reverb is now stereo, stronger and keeps the dry sound. New groove French Filter: house at 124 BPM in two patterns.