AfriBeats Compose

Key, tempo & loops

Key Scale

Tempo BPM Swing %

Song feel · instruments follow this unless they have their own

Groove Amount %

Humanise timing % Humanise velocity %

Volume

Meter & grid

Loops

Play

hear chords hear bass

Instruments

The stage set has 27 instruments and loads in a second. The full set adds all 128 General MIDI instruments and eight drum kits; it downloads once (24 MB) and needs more memory, so it's off unless you turn it on.

Bar-by-bar step editing and the notation view live in the score editor; it shares the same loops.

Add an instrument

Name Sound

Plays as

Play it with

Octave

Colour

Score (ABC)

Auto bass line where none is played (root on kicks, fifth on snares, over the bar's chord; off = the score only has what you played)

Style for the render (travels in the score PNG) Lyrics (optional; [Verse] / [Chorus] blocks in section order)

Score editor →

Make this score a song sends your score to AfriBeats and gives you the finished track here, with no files to move around. The vocal line is your Voice instrument; the bass line is what you played on a Bass instrument (or, with the option above, an automatic line). Score PNG is the same score as a lossless M3DS image, for sending to a Graydient score-yue2 job by hand as a file (a photo gets recompressed and breaks it).

Saved grooves

Grooves are kept in this browser. Export a file to move one to another device.

Feel

Follow the song's feel (swing, groove and humanising from Settings)

Quantise what I record to

Free keeps the micro-timing of your taps for playback.

Swing %

Groove Amount %

Humanise timing % Humanise velocity %

Feel is playback only. The score stays on the grid; swing and groove don't change the notation.

Print a drum pattern

Style

Density Variation between bars fill at the end of the loop

Start from a song

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Paste your own ABC instead

A starter gives you the melody and chords, plus drums, a bassline, the tempo and a style line that fit. It replaces the loops and song (your instruments and saved grooves stay), so you can play over it, change anything, then tap Make song. All starters are original to AfriBeats. You can also paste your own single-voice ABC above.