Drums and percussion
Kicks, snares, hats, toms, rims and shakers. The building blocks of a beat, in a handful of characters each.
Sounds to start with, and room for your own
Every account gets the built-in library. Upload your own on top of it - the two sit side by side in the picker.
Effects
Risers, sweeps, zaps and impacts. The sounds that mark a moment rather than keep a rhythm.
Musical hits
Stabs, sub tones and blips - short, pitched sounds that sit under or over whatever else is playing.
Alerts and signals
Bells, sirens and horns. Useful well beyond music: streams, podcasts, live events and classrooms.
Your own sounds
Upload anything your browser can decode. The file is checked on the server from its actual bytes, not from its name, so a renamed file is refused rather than stored.
Supported: MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A, AAC, FLAC and WebM. Up to 50 MB per file, within your plan storage.
Short and long sounds behave differently
A sound of up to thirty seconds is decoded into memory and fires the instant you press. Anything longer is streamed, which starts a fraction later but keeps a long track from filling the memory your whole pad shares. Which mode a sound uses is shown in your sound list.
Licensing
Everything in the built-in library is either public domain or licensed for redistribution, and the source is recorded per sound. What you upload stays yours - we do not add it to anyone else library.