Chih Han Lin has released Orbeat, available as a FREE download with an optional.in-app purchase that unlocks the Pro version.
Sketch rhythms on a living mandala — six lanes, four kits, and generators that surprise you. Jam free unlock Pro once for export, polymeter & unlimited beats.
Orbeat is a drum machine in the round. Instead of a grid, your rhythm lives on a glowing mandala – six concentric lanes of light that orbit a single play button. Tap the rings, watch the playhead sweep, and feel the groove move.
Six lanes wrap the screen as rings. Tap to place hits lock a lane you love, mute and solo as you build the groove layer by layer. The whole pattern turns as it plays.
Classic, Acoustic, Glitch, and 8-bit – one tap reskins every voice while your pattern stays put. From clean and punchy to broken and chiptune.
Roll the dice for an instant pattern, or use Euclidean rhythms to spread hits evenly around a ring. Like what you hear? Tap the ring to write it in and edit by hand.
Add swing to push the feel off the grid, and draw velocity per step for accents that live. With Probability, hits fire by chance; with polymeter, each lane gets its own length so the phases drift in and out of sync.
Bounce any loop to a WAV you can share, or run Orbeat as an AUv3 instrument with sample-accurate MIDI out – sequence other instruments right inside GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and other AUv3 hosts.
The full instrument is free forever – every kit, the sequencer, Euclidean generators, swing, and velocity, Orbeat Pro is a single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever) that unlocks Probability, polymeter, WAV export, and unlimited saved beats
Made for iPhone and iPad. No account, no ads, no tracking – vour beats never leave your device unless you share them.
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