Drum pad.
Play drums with your keyboard: 16 pads in your browser. Press a key, click a pad, or drop your own sounds on any one.
Drop a WAV, AIFF or MP3 on any pad to play your own sound.
Kick
Want a sound from a song or a video? DOT records anything your Mac plays, trimmed, ready to drop on a pad.
Your keyboard is the drum pad.
Sixteen pads, sixteen keys.
1 to 4, Q to R, A to F, Z to V: four keys a row, four rows of pads. Kick and snare sit at the bottom left, where your fingers already are.
Drop your own sounds.
Drag a WAV, AIFF or MP3 from Finder onto any pad, or several onto one to fill the pads after it. They’re still there next time you open the page.
Hats behave like a real kit.
The open hat stops when you hit the closed one, so quick hat patterns sound the way they do on real drums.
The sound you want is in a song you’re playing.
DOT records anything your Mac plays, trims it, and gives you the file to drop on a pad.
DOT Audio Recorder
Free to try · $49 once · macOS 14.4 or later
Before you play.
Which files?
WAV, AIFF and MP3, and M4A and FLAC too, up to 30 seconds each. Longer files are trimmed to the first 30 seconds. Short, dry sounds work best: a pad plays the whole file.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, tap the pads, with more than one finger if you like. To play your own sound, pick a pad and tap Use your own sound. Keys need a keyboard, so phones get bigger pads instead.
Why does the open hat stop?
The hats cut each other off, like on a real kit: hit the closed hat and the open one stops.
Can I get my kit back?
Yes. The kit you build is saved in this browser, so it's there next time you open the page, until you put a pad's own sound back or press Reset kit, which brings back the starting kit.
Why is there a small delay?
The sound starts within a few milliseconds of the key, but Bluetooth headphones add their own delay. Use wired headphones or the speakers, and the pads feel immediate.
