Drum Machine Online — a Free Online Drum Machine with Real Swing, in Your Browser
Shuffle Drummer is a free online drum machine built by hip-hop producers around one idea: the beat has to groove. It runs entirely in your web browser, with no download, no plugin and no signup to start. Press play, pick a kit, turn the SWING knob, and you're programming beats within seconds, on desktop or on your phone.
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Free · no install · works on mobile · no ads
How to program a beat on the online drum machine
- Press play and turn the SHUFFLE wheel. Each position loads a hand-made groove (not a random one), so you start from something that already swings.
- Edit the steps in the STEP tab. Click a cell to add a kick, snare, hi-hat, open hat, cymbal or ride. Where you click sets the velocity: high in the cell for an accent, low for a ghost note, and you can drag up or down to fine-tune it.
- Dial in the groove. The SWING knob runs from 50% (straight) to 75% (hard shuffle). Switch on TIMING to drag a single hit early or late, off the grid, the way an MPC does it.
- Make it longer. Patterns are 2 bars by default; hit ×2 or ×4 for 4 or 8 bars, and change the grid to 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32, or to the 1/8T and 1/16T triplet grids, for rolls and triplet feels.
- Pick a kit and export. Open the DRUMS BANK to swap kits, then bounce the beat to WAV, export the pattern as MIDI, or share it with one link.
A drum machine that actually grooves
Most browser drum machines sound stiff because every hit lands exactly on the grid. Shuffle Drummer was built groove first. The shuffle engine, the swing knob and the per-hit timing mode work together so your hi-hats can drag and your snare can push, exactly like on hardware. Timing is handled at 96 pulses per quarter note, so a nudge is a real nudge, not a rounded one. If you want to understand what the knob is doing, read swing and shuffle explained.
Here is the kind of pattern you can program in a minute, the classic boom bap skeleton (■ = hit, ▪ = ghost note):
| 1 | e | & | a | 2 | e | & | a | 3 | e | & | a | 4 | e | & | a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kick | ■ | ■ | ■ | |||||||||||||
| Snare | ■ | ▪ | ■ | |||||||||||||
| Hi-hat | ■ | ▪ | ■ | ▪ | ■ | ▪ | ■ | ▪ |
Add 58–62% of swing and the off-beat hi-hats fall late, which is what makes a head nod. More patterns, with their swing settings, in the boom bap drum patterns guide.
What's inside
- Step sequencer — 6 drum tracks (kick, snare, hi-hat, open hat, cymbal, ride), 16 steps per bar, 2 to 8 bars, grid from 1/8 to 1/32 with triplets, per-step velocity, per-track time shift
- Groove — shuffle wheel with hand-made grooves, swing from 50% to 75%, TIMING mode for off-grid hits
- Drum kits and drum synthesizer — a DRUMS BANK of sampled kits (including a dedicated lo-fi kit) on top of a fully synthesized drum engine, all Web Audio
- Per-track sound shaping — pitch, hi-pass and low-pass filters, 12-bit mode, attack and decay on every drum channel
- Sampler — load your own sounds, slice them, remove the drums from a loop, play the chops on pads (online sampler)
- Melody — a piano roll with up to 4 tracks, each a sampled piano or the Minimoog-style synth
- Mixing — 8-channel mixer, master EQ, SSL-style bus compressor, tape emulation, 16 master FX pads (reverb, delay, cassette sim, vinyl sim, crusher…)
- Song mode — PRINT your patterns as parts (intro, verse, hook) in the SEQUENCER tab and play the whole track
- Export — WAV master, per-track stems or a live recording, plus MIDI file export, ready for your DAW
- Share — send a beat with one URL; the other person listens and can remix it, or publish it to the TOP BEATS gallery
- MIDI in — play the pads from a keyboard, a pad controller or an Akai MPC (Chrome and Edge)
Made by producers, not just coders
Shuffle Drummer is developed by Mani Deïz, a French hip-hop producer making beats since 1998, together with three friends. It is the drum machine they always wanted: fast, groovy and free, with updates shipping every week. The whole audio engine runs locally in your browser on the Web Audio API, with zero dependencies.
« Une boîte à rythmes gratuite vraiment géniale » (“a genuinely great free drum machine”) — Korben, September 2026
Learn drum programming
The drum machine comes with step-by-step guides written by the producer behind it: swing and shuffle explained, six boom bap drum patterns, how to make a beat online from scratch, and how to make a lo-fi beat. All of them can be followed directly in the machine.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. You can play and program instantly without an account, and there are no ads. A free account unlocks saving your projects and WAV export.
- Do I need to download anything?
- No. Everything runs in the browser with the Web Audio API, on desktop and on phones.
- Does it have swing?
- Yes: a SWING knob from 50% to 75%, a SHUFFLE wheel of hand-made grooves, and a TIMING mode to nudge single hits off the grid.
- How long can a pattern be?
- 2 bars by default, up to 8 bars, with a grid from 1/8 to 1/32. Chain patterns into a full song in the SEQUENCER tab.
- Can I use my beats in my DAW?
- Yes. Export WAV stems or a full master, or a MIDI file, and drop them into Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic or any other DAW.
- Can I use a MIDI controller?
- Yes, in Chrome and Edge: keyboards, pad controllers and Akai MPCs play the pads over Web MIDI.
- Does it work on mobile?
- Yes. The machine reflows to a full-screen touch layout on phones and tablets, with the same engine and the same sounds.