Visit the "Tony-b Machine" website and make your beats using your computer keyboard or mouse. This interactive song creation tool features multiple musical layers so you can lay down drums and an assortment of techno parts, including digitized vocals. If desired, you can record and share your improvisation with the site's online audience and membership. The beats you make use the standard components of an electronic drum kit: bass drum, snare drum and two different types of cymbals. You can also make beats that include rhythmically synthesized pulses or bass sounds.
Make a conventional live drum kit beat pattern using the controls at the "JamStudio" website. This site provides an interface for selecting your desired drum kit, song pattern, and style from a long list of options. Then, you can play the song and change the instruments at any time. You can combine multiple beat instruments to create particularly intricate rhythms. The beat instruments include snares, hammers, cymbals, and even a phone-like rhythm called "phone." Some emulate live stage drums while others are synthesized sounds. You can also combine piano and guitar with all the beats for a full band emulation.
Play the interactive instruments online at "Button Beats," a music software web page. This site lets you record additional beats or vocals and instrumental parts directly into the website using any microphone attached to your computer. Then you can integrate up to five of these recordings in your beat pattern. In addition, you can play the DJ-style turntables for many additional beats, or click the keys on a virtual piano. The instrument controls resemble true DJ mixers, letting you fade from one music track into another in real time. There are many buttons to click on this site, including buttons for different musical tracks for the DJ mixers, as well as a musical cube-like interface with many 3-D buttons. Each creates a different sound offering considerable creative opportunity.