Super Time Ultra

A drum machine with a drummer in it

A synthesised drum machine in your browser: six kits in the 808, 909, Linn, SP-1200 and CR-78 lineages, a sixteen-step grid, MPC swing, humanise, an accent row and a record chain. Download loops and full kits as 24-bit WAV.

Twelve synthesised voices, six kits from the 808 to the SP-1200, MPC swing and a record chain on the way out. Program a beat in a minute, then download the loop or the whole kit. Every sound is original synthesis, so what you export is yours to release.

What this tool includes

Kits with a lineage

Boom is the 808 family: a round kick that keeps ringing, a snappy snare and grainy metallic hats. Warehouse is 909 confidence. Backbeat is the Linn and DMX pop sound. Dust is twelve-bit grit. Lounge is the small, patient CR-78. Sub is the modern pitched, driven 808 bass.

Feel you can hear

Swing works the way the MPC made famous: the off sixteenths move to a percentage of the eighth note. Feel models a drummer, not noise: tight hats, a backbeat that lays back the harder it is hit, ghost notes that push.

A record chain built in

Drive, glue compression, a short room and a tape roll-off sit after the kit, so the first thing you hear sounds finished. Per-voice grit brings the sample-machine edge without sampling anything.

Take it with you

Download a loop as stereo 24-bit WAV, or the whole kit as 108 samples with three velocity layers and three round robins per voice, in the format SuperTime uses for its own kits.