★ BEAT KITCHEN ★

turn the knobs & pour some sauce on top

Cuisine

Spice

Magic Sauce

Tempo

Volume

Chop

Sprinkle

Stock

Simmer

Garnish

Main

Side

Cooking instructions

How to cook 🍳

Beat Kitchen builds a looping track you can season to taste.

▶ Power

Tap the round switch to start & stop the music.

🎛 Knobs

Cuisine — the genre
Spice — the scale
Magic Sauce — whole-mix effects. 🌶️ stirs up a new sauce.

🎚 Instrument faders

Each fader (Chop, Sprinkle, Stock, Simmer, Garnish, Main, Side) sets that instrument's level. The little purple knob adjust the amount of sauce added to it.
🎲 = a new melody / beat
🌶️ = a new sound + sauce

🧑‍🍳 Cooking instructions

The strip at the bottom is the song's sections, in order.
+ add a part · − / + change its length · ⧉ duplicate · ✕ remove.
Click a part to tweak only that one.

🍽 Top buttons

🎲 New recipe — a fresh random song
🧽 Wash up — an empty canvas to build on.
🎛️ MIDI — map a hardware controller to the knobs & faders, and pads to new melody/beat (auto-map or learn each one). Appears when your browser supports MIDI.

⌨ Keyboard

Space — start & stop (resumes where you left off)
Enter — when stopped, play from the beginning; while playing, focus the section you're hearing
Esc — stop editing a section / close this panel

💾 Export

⌘/Ctrl + E — save an MP3 of the song. It restarts from the top, records one full pass in real time (watch for ● REC), then downloads. Press again or Esc to cancel.
⌘/Ctrl + M — save a MIDI file of the notes, to open in your own music software.

🎛️ MIDI controller

Map a hardware controller to the knobs, faders, and pads (pads fire a new melody/beat). Hit Auto-map for a default layout (knobs/faders on CCs, pads on notes from 36), or Learn a single control and wiggle a knob / hit a pad to bind it. Bindings are saved on this device.