n-gonpolygon drum machine
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Board

Click a shape's outline to select that drum, or drop an audio file on it. Click a vertex: off → hit → accent → off. Each ring plays its shape once per cycle. Space plays and stops; press ? for all keyboard shortcuts.

Layers 1–6 select · M mute · S solo · ⌫ remove

Whole-beat effects

These process every ring together. Each ring's own settings and sends are in the layer editor; its send level is shown in colour inside Echo and Reverb.

Saved patterns

Your samples

Keyboard shortcuts

press ?
  • SpacePlay / stop
  • XRecord a take (again to finish the bar)
  • NNext view (Shift: previous)
  • RRandom
  • ⌘ SSave pattern (Ctrl+S on Windows)
  • TTap tempo
  • [ ]Tempo −1 / +1 (Shift ±10)
  • KNext kit (Shift: previous)
  • PNext pattern (Shift: previous)
  • BBoard light / dark
  • 1–6Select ring
  • AAdd ring
  • ⌫Remove selected ring (Delete)
  • ZUndo remove
  • GAudition selected ring
  • MMute selected ring
  • SSolo selected ring
  • ⇧ MMute all / unmute all
  • ⇧ SSolo all / unsolo all
  • , .Rotate selected ring
  • − =Fewer / more sides
  • FFilter on / off
  • DDistortion on / off
  • EEcho on / off
  • VReverb on / off
  • CMetronome
  • ?Show these keys

Space always starts and stops playback, even when another control has focus. Shortcuts pause while you type in a text box.

Sync

MIDI off

Ableton Link talks over your local network (UDP multicast), which a web page can't open. In the standalone or AUv3 build, Link's C++ SDK plugs straight into this transport. For the prototype, sync with Live through MIDI clock: send clock from Live to a virtual port (IAC Driver on macOS, loopMIDI on Windows) and pick it as Clock in, or send clock out and set Live's sync to that port.