BAP Studio
An MPC-style drum machine that runs in a browser tab
What it does
Make beats in your browser with 16 velocity drum pads, a step sequencer, swing, sampling and WAV export. Free, no download, no signup.
A web page cannot listen to another browser tab - BAP only hears files you drop in and your microphone. A small extension bridges that: it records whatever a tab is playing and brings it here to chop onto the pads. A third-party tool, not part of BAP Studio - sample only what you have the right to use. You play by what you hear, and what you hear runs late: the audio pipeline delays every sound on its way to your ears, and your press takes its own time coming back in. BAP subtracts both from every hit it records, so unquantized takes land where you meant them - not a constant few dozen milliseconds behind the beat. The reported latency is the browser's word for it; the tap test measures the…from bap.studio
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