Genre
Beat-driven
Forward and rhythmic, with a steady pulse and a chord a bar — push the intensity and it leans in, tight and alive, ready to loop.
What it feels like
Beat-driven moves. The pulse is steady and four-square, harmony turns over once a bar, and the dynamics open up as you push intensity — so the same world can sit back or drive hard. Pull spread to thin it to the essentials, or widen it to fill the bar.
- Tempo. Its home tempo is around 124 BPM — a comfortable floor-music pulse you can nudge either way.
- Key. Bright major, moody minor, or funky Dorian for the key.
A beat-driven loop in four moves
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Open it on Beat-driven and feel the pulse
The groove is going from the first bar. Get a sense of where the chord changes land before you start shaping it.
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Ride the intensity dial
Intensity is your energy. Ease it down for a sparse, heads-down loop; push it up and the groove fills in and pushes harder. One dial, the whole range.
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Pick a key and a tempo that fit your track
Set the key to match what you are building and nudge the tempo to your project's. Because timing is kept in ticks, what you export lands exactly at that tempo.
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Capture a bar or four and stack it
Grab a loop the moment it lands, then capture a second over it to build a small stack. Loops snap to whole bars, so everything lines up for a clean export.
What to do with it
Reach for Beat-driven when you want a loop to build a track on — house, techno, pop, or any groove that wants a steady spine. Export the MIDI into your DAW and the named per-voice tracks drop in at your tempo and key, ready to flesh out.