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Loop Generator

Five parts from genre, tempo and key: roll, lock, refine, jam, export.

How to work with it
Controls
Jam mode
Undo, fills and seed code

The Loop Generator builds a complete loop from five parts: drums, bass, chords, lead and arpeggio. It draws on profiles for 45 genres — each knows typical drum patterns, scales, bass styles and . You set the frame, the generator delivers suggestions that groove together.

How to work with it

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Set the framePick genre, tempo, key, mode and length (1, 2, 4 or 8 bars).
RollPress R or the dice to regenerate every unlocked part. Each part also has its own dice.
LockLock what you like with the padlock. Locked parts stay as they are on the next roll.
RefineUse ✎ to place or remove single drum hits with a click. Change the style per part, e.g. bass from rolling to acid.
Take it with youDrag each part as MIDI, everything as multitrack MIDI or as a WAV sketch — or start a new track from it straight away.

Controls

Parameter	Range	What for
Tempo	60–220 BPM	Default comes from the genre profile
Density	0–100 %	How many notes and hits — low for minimal, high for breaks
Complexity	0–100 %	Syncopation, leaps, ghost notes
Swing	50–72 %	50 % straight, 54–58 % house groove, 66 %+ shuffle
Variation	A–D	Four variants on the same chords for longer arrangements

Jam mode

In jam mode your computer keyboard becomes a keyboard that only plays notes of the selected — so nothing can sound “wrong”. Lower row A–L, upper row Q–P one octave higher. A take over one loop pass replaces the lead part.

R: Re-roll every unlocked part
Space: Start/stop playback
A…Ö: Jam: scale notes (lower row)
Q…P: Jam: one octave higher

Undo, fills and seed code

Undo/redo: ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z (Windows/Linux Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) bring back up to 60 rolls.
Drum fills: auto, off or every 2nd, 4th or 8th bar; at the end of eight bars a big fill from beat 3.
Seed code: the NS1.… code describes the loop exactly. Copy, share, paste — the same loop is back.
Mute/solo per part to listen to single parts.

Try it yourself · AN-01

A part of it as a drum machine: set pads, roll the dice, drag the tempo dial.

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Quick check

You like the drums but not the bass. What do you do?

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