What's new in Beatline

• A search box in the Browser. One filter across the samples in your project, your cloud library and every starter pack — matching packs open themselves, so a library you have to scroll becomes one you can search.
• Find sounds online. Search a catalogue of millions of Creative-Commons sounds (Openverse, which indexes Freesound, Wikimedia and more) without leaving the studio. Click a result to preview it, ＋ to pull it into the project as a normal sample — droppable on the playlist, playable as an instrument, editable in Edison.
• Highlights to start from — Kicks, Snares, Hats, 808s, Impacts, Risers, Vinyl, Ambience and more, one click each, so the panel is worth opening before you know what to search for. Come up empty in the local filter and the online search picks up what you typed.
• Licences handled properly. Searches default to CC0 — public domain, use it in anything, credit nobody. Widen it and CC BY / BY-SA sounds appear marked ◈, and each one carries its credit line into the project (hover the sample) so you still know what to credit weeks later, even after saving and reopening.

No account, no API key, and nothing routed through our servers — your browser talks to the catalogue directly.

• Fixed: a sample dropped on the playlist could stay silent. Pressing ▶ on the Page used to leave the spacebar pointed at pages, and a page is notes only — so the next Space over the playlist replayed a page instead of the arrangement, and the audio clip you were staring at made no sound. The two transports are properly independent now: only the SONG/PAGE badge decides what Space plays.
• Fixed: a sample's mixer track now rules its clips too. Give a sample's Page row an insert and the clips of that sample on the playlist follow it — fader, inserts, mute and all — instead of staying on their lane's channel. Play the same sound as a note or as a clip and it goes through the same strip, in the mix and in the bounce.

• The Page has its own play button. It loops the page you're working on, from its start to its end, and it never runs alongside the playlist — starting one stops the other, and each play button only lights for its own transport.
• The piano roll plays what you're editing. Its play button (and the spacebar, while it's open) loops that page, never the arrangement underneath it.
• Instrument picker in the roll. A dropdown at the top switches which channel you're writing for — synth, sampler, whatever it is — with a dot marking the channels that already have notes on this page. No more closing the roll to change instrument.
• Pages on the playlist behave like clips. Click selects one so you can move, copy or delete it; double-click opens its piano roll. The lane headers lost their piano-roll button — instruments live in the Page, and lanes are for arrangement.
• Clone a page with the ⧉ button next to ＋: an independent copy of its notes, named the next number up, dropped in right after the original on the playlist. Edit the clone all you like — the original stays as it was.
• Enter finishes a rename. Naming a page (or a channel, or a lane) and pressing Enter hands the keyboard back, so the next spacebar plays instead of typing a space into the name.
• The roll's long shortcut line now lives behind a ? button, giving the grid back the space it was using.

• Master sits on the left. It leads the mixer instead of hiding off the right-hand end, and stays pinned there while the rest of the channels scroll past it.
• Route channels into each other. Every mixer strip has an output picker at its foot. Send the kick, snare and hats to one channel and that strip's fader, pan and inserts rule the whole kit — FL-style insert routing. Everything still loads pointing at Master, so nothing changes until you move it.
• Bus strips. "+ Bus" in the mixer header adds a strip that exists purely to be routed into — no playlist lane, no channel rack row. Double-click any strip's name to rename it; right-click for its menu.
• Solo understands routing. Soloing a channel keeps the bus it feeds open, and soloing a bus keeps everything feeding it alive, so solo means what it says.
• Sidechain Duck insert. A dedicated ducker: pick a trigger channel, set Amount, Threshold, Attack, Release and Lookahead, and watch the gain-reduction meter pump. Point a bass at the kick and it steps out of the way — no automation required.
• Multiband compressor with a live spectrum display: three bands, draggable crossovers, a threshold line you can drag inside each band, and per-band level and gain-reduction meters, so you can see which part of the sound is being worked.

Routing applies to MP3 export as well as playback, and the mixer graph is kept loop-free: a route that would send a channel back into itself isn't offered.

• Mobile view. Open Beatline on a phone and it offers to switch to a touch studio built for the format — the desktop layout stays one tap away.
• One landscape screen. Channels down the left, their 16-step lanes to the right, a playable keyboard docked at the bottom and the mixer behind a button. Turn the phone sideways and it's there.
• Channel rack. Tap steps to build a beat, mute per channel, set pattern length from 1 to 8 bars, and page through the sounds browser to add channels.
• 18 stock instruments. Kick, snare, clap, hats, toms, basses, keys, leads and pads — all built on the synth engine, so nothing to download.
• Your own samples. Import audio straight from your phone, or pull one-shots and loops from the built-in library; each becomes a playable channel.
• Touch piano roll. Tap a block in the playlist (or a channel's ⚙) to write notes — draw, drag, resize, erase, with a live playhead.
• Mixer + automation. Faders, pan, mute/solo, meters and effect inserts; hold a fader or pan control to automate it and draw the curve over your song.
• Recording. Arm record and play the keys — held notes land in the pattern while the loop runs, or step-record one note at a time while stopped.
• Undo/redo in the transport bar, and one-tap MP3 export or share from the menu.

Under the hood: looped playback now re-reads the arrangement at every pass, so steps you tap in while the loop runs are heard immediately — on desktop too.

• Step sequencer panel for drum-style pattern editing next to the playlist.
• MIDI file import and export — dependency-free SMF reading and writing.
• WAM 2.0 plugin hosting — third-party web audio plugins as inserts, including in offline export. Behind a hidden flag while it's road-tested.
• Performance telemetry so slow devices show up in the numbers, not just in complaints.

• Compressor and limiter inserts with a live gain-reduction meter.
• Sidechain ducking — point a compressor at another channel's signal.
• Stop really stops: effect tails, previews and held voices all go quiet.
• Friendlier cloud saves when the same account has the project open twice.

• Select-all and group move across the playlist.
• Automation segments became bounded clips — deleting a stretch really removes it.
• Mixer clip LEDs, note-length memory and piano-roll grid divisions.
• Deeper zoom, fixed stale pattern paste, and silence on leaving the studio.
• FL-style transport: double-tap space stops at 0:00, Home returns to the start.

• A project hub as the front door — open, duplicate and manage your work.
• Beatline Pro: collaboration, a personal preset library and showcase publishing, with a 7-day trial and a yearly plan.
• Remix links, featured songs, starter templates and embeddable players.
• Legal pages, content reports and save-conflict handling.
• Admin surface, smoke tests and crash telemetry behind the scenes.

• Accounts and cloud projects — save once, open anywhere.
• Public song pages with per-song link previews, plus a projects gallery.
• Landing page, SEO and the first pass at billing.

• Free starter library of drums, 808s, loops, FX and vocal chops.
• Patterns as clips — write once, place anywhere on the timeline.
• Sampler with resample and stretch pitching, plus a seamless loop engine.
• Microphone recording, MIDI keyboard input, WAV export and mixer meters.
• Loop regions, note velocity and a piano roll that got a lot friendlier.
• Installable as an app (PWA).

• The playlist, the synth, the mixer and the audio engine — Beatline's first public deploy.