Orbeat: Drum Machine

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.

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, and draw velocity per step for accents that live. 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 WAV you can share, 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 sequencer, Euclidean generators, swing, and velocity. Orbeat Pro is a single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever) that unlocks Probability, polymeter, WAV export, unlimited saved beats, and room to grow the circle to twelve lanes.

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.