Drumcircle 1.0

Free Drumcircle is a loop sequencer with exporting and collaboration capabilities.
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Drumcircle is a loop sequencer with a variety of built-in samples and a very clean interface. It can export to .wav files, has 8 save slots for later editing, and features an online collaboration mode where all users can work together (or against each other) to create music.

The user interface is like a retro painting program combined with a radar sensor. Like a painting program, there are six palettes of seven different colors or shapes that can be dragged and dropped on the screen, in this case representing audio tones and effects. Like a radar sensor, Drumcircle plays the samples as the rotating beat hand passes through them. And everything's so pixellated (intentionally) that it's undeniably retro.

A very cool feature of this program is the online collaboration mode. This mode downloads a tune that has been created by other users of the program, which you are then free to edit (for better or worse, of course). It's a quick and dirty way to crowdsource some inspiration if your own fiddlings don't get you far enough!

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Pros

  • Easy and simple to get a good sound going
  • Exportable as a .wav file for use in other projects
  • Online collaboration is a cool feature

Cons

  • Changing up the sound samples would require delving into the source code
  • Tempo cannot be changed

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