🥁 Drum Pad

How to play

Eight drum pads with every sound built live in the browser rather than loaded from a file. Pick one of the three kits, then hit pads with the mouse or the keyboard. Nothing is scored or recorded — this is an instrument, not a round-based game.

• Pads — click or tap a pad to trigger its sound.
• Q, W, E, R and A, S, D, F — trigger the eight pads in order, top row then bottom. Each pad shows its key.
• Kit buttons — switch between Trap, Rock and Electronic, rebuilding the pads and key mapping.
• Volume slider — sets the level of every hit.
• Reverb slider — present in the panel, but not wired into the audio in this build, so it changes nothing you can hear.

Scoring

There is no score. Sounds are synthesised on the spot: kicks and toms are sine oscillators that sweep down in pitch, snares and claps are filtered noise bursts, hats and cymbals are high-passed noise, and the electronic kit adds square-wave synth and zap voices. Each hit decays over 0.2 seconds, or 0.4 for the open hat. The bar graph above the pads is decorative, driven by your hits rather than by the audio itself.

Tips

• The keyboard beats the mouse for anything fast, because you can hit two pads at once with different fingers.
• Q and W are the kick and snare in all three kits, so a basic backbeat transfers when you switch.
• Kits differ in more than name: Rock puts a crash on R and a ride on F where Trap has an open hat and a clap.

Frequently asked questions