FL Studio wants $299 upfront. Ableton runs $99/year and calls home on every launch. GarageBand is Mac-only. LMMS is free but built like it's 2005. BeatBox is the gap: a focused, modern beat sequencer and DAW for Windows producers who want to make music — not fight their tools or their license server.
16-step grid with variable step length per track. Swing control, velocity per step, and probability — the building blocks of a real groove without the interface overhead of a full-scale DAW.
Tempo control from 40–300 BPM with tap tempo. Time signatures from 4/4 through 7/8. Per-track step count so polyrhythms emerge naturally without manual workarounds.
Stack loops and patterns into full song arrangements. Chain beats, build sections, and compose from individual patterns into a finished track without bouncing to audio between every idea.
Import WAV, AIFF, and MP3 samples from your local library. No cloud sample store, no subscription sample pack, no account required to use your own sounds. Drag in, map to a pad, sequence.
Volume, pan, and send/return effects per track. A straightforward mix bus without the 200-channel complexity of a full-scale DAW. Get a clean, balanced mix without a mixing engineering degree.
Bounce your track to high-quality stereo WAV. Export MIDI patterns to take your compositions into any full DAW. Your creative work — not locked to BeatBox's project format.
iLok requires a USB dongle or a live cloud license check. Some DAWs disable features if activation servers are unreachable. BeatBox runs offline by design — your projects open whether or not you're connected to anything.
No license server call on launch. No activation check mid-session. Open BeatBox on a plane, in a studio with no wifi, or in a location where calling home would be a problem.
Built with Tauri and TypeScript — not a wrapped browser tab. The audio engine gets full access to system resources without sharing CPU budget with a Chromium renderer.
BeatBox project files live on your drive. No cloud sync required. No fear of losing a project when a subscription lapses. Export to open formats — WAV and MIDI — at any time.
Send us an email and we'll notify you when the beta opens. No mailing list, no spam — one message when it's ready.
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