MPBay

MPBay is a virtual loop machine to make awesome and colorful beat samples!

Let's discover your new instrument and make some cool loops.

Instructions:

Play some sounds by hitting the corresponding keys on your keyboard.

You can show/hide the key letters by clicking the button.

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First, let's discover our instrument. Each pad corresponds to a specific drum sound.

The red pad is what we call a 'kick'. It's that heavy drum sound that gives the tempo in a lot of songs!

Instructions:

1. Hit space to get the recorder running. What you hear is called the metronome, it gives you the rhythm!

2. Play the kick pad each 2 counts of metronome.

3. Right after your last kick, hit space again to stop recording the loop.

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Awesome! You just did your first loop, enjoy it, cherish it, cause now you're going to do more on that!

The orange pad represents the snare. It goes very well when played between kick sounds!

Instructions:

1. Hit #2 on your keyboard or click the loop 2 button, now we're on the second track!

2. Play the snare between each of your kicks. You should have the following sequence: kick-snare-kick-snare.

3. Just as you did before, hit space just after playing your loop.

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Are you already moving your head up and down? Let's do more!

The yellow pads are the hi-hats, and other symbals sounds. Play with them!

Instructions:

1. Click on #3 to launch our third loop

2. Add some hi-hats to your track as before, and hit space when your done: you know the music now :)

NB: Feel free to switch the metronome off just by clicking on the green button.

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Jay-Z had better watch! Wanna make it sound more trappy?

The 2 white pads are a classic hip hop clap and a big noisey tom.

Instructions:

1. Select the 4th loop and add a clap or a tom (or both!).

2. Don't forget to press space to end your loop!

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Wow, it already sounds like a classic!

A proper hip-hop loop must have some cool vocal and scratch samples. Here are some to master your beat!

Instructions:

Damn! You don't have any loop left, just add the new sounds while your loop is playing. That's called playing live!

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Now you're a real Hip Hop producer!

You can freely enjoy your MPBay by overriding your loops!

Credits:

This project has been realised by @Stanams as a 48h JS project at AppAcademy!

MPBay is inspired by Jamwithchrome experiment and by projects like FlexBoxFroggy and Shortcut Sloths.