Design a drum sound

Every drum page starts on a sound you can play right away. Shape it as little or as much as you like.

Start from a preset

1. Open the drum you want, such as the Kick generator.
2. The display at the top names the sound. Step through presets with its arrows, or open it to search them by style: 808 and 909, house, techno, trap, acoustic snares and more.
3. Press Space or Enter to play.

To keep a sound, press the bookmark beside its name. It stays in this browser. Click again to forget it.

Pick how much control you want

• Simple shows the waveform and a few knobs named for the drum, like a kick's sweep, click and body, or a snare's ring and snares.
• Advanced shows the sound's curves on a timeline, such as a kick's pitch, level and click.
• Pro adds an EQ drawn over the sound, a compressor and a limiter.

The page remembers your pick.

Shape it

• Drag a knob, scroll over it, or use the arrow keys.
• On the timeline, drag a point, drag the dot between two points to bend the line, and double click to add a point.
• Rest the pointer on any value, such as the note, tune or length, and scroll to change it. Hold Shift for bigger steps, Alt for finer ones.
• Space or Enter plays the sound from wherever you just tweaked.

Undo with ⌘Z and redo with ⇧⌘Z. Recently played lists every sound you played this session, one click from bringing it back.

Make it your size

Drag the page's sides to widen it, or the bottom edge of the timeline, waveform or EQ to make it taller. Double click an edge to reset it.

Related

• Dig and blend sounds
• Export and share a sound