VoxSquad is a free drag-and-drop beat maker that runs entirely in your browser — no download, no signup. Drag beats, bass, melodies and vocal loops onto seven animated characters and they perform your mix live on stage: bouncing on the beat, blinking, and singing along. Every sound is a real ButtonBass beatbox loop locked to one tempo and key, so any combination sounds good — no music theory needed.
Build a groove with a beat and a bass line, layer a melody on top, then drop a vocal on the last member of the crew. Tap a character to mute them for instant breakdowns, and clear a slot to swap in a different sound. The spotlight, ground glow and mouth animation all follow the audio, so the stage always shows you exactly who is making which sound.
1. Drag a sound onto a character. Pick a chip from the palette at the bottom — Beats, Bass, Melody or Vox — and drag it onto any of the seven stage slots. On touch screens you can also tap a sound, then tap a character. The member pops onto the stage and starts performing on the next bar, always in time.
2. Mix your crew live. Tap a member to mute or unmute them, and use the × button to clear a slot. Because everything is quantized to the bar, dropping sounds in and out always lands on the beat — build-ups, drops and breakdowns are one tap away.
3. Share your mix. Hit Share mix to get a short code that captures your lineup and any re-rolled synth variants. Send it to a friend and they can paste it into the Load box to rebuild your exact mix — variants included — and hear your track.
The sounds in VoxSquad are the same loops that power the ButtonBass BeatBox Cube, fired by a bar-quantized Web Audio scheduler at 120 BPM. Because every loop shares one tempo and one key, every squad you assemble is already a song.
The chips wearing a small SYN tag are different: nothing is downloaded for them. Those drums, basses, pads and singing robot voices are synthesized in your browser the instant you use them, with the same glottal-and-formant vocal model behind the ButtonBass VOX synthesizer — and they are tuned to the squad's key, so they mix with every sampled loop.
Every synth sound is also generative: hover or tap its squad member and hit the ↻ re-roll button to regenerate it — a new drum groove and kit voicing, a new bass riff, a new arpeggio or chord voicing, a new sung phrase — 62 variants per sound, always in the squad's key. The variant is part of your mix code, so a shared re-roll comes back exactly as you heard it.
Beyond VoxSquad, ButtonBass offers a growing library of free browser-based instruments and games. Layer loops on the 3D Dubstep Cube 2, sing with the VOX vocal synthesizer, play the Synthesizer or a virtual piano, build beats on the Beat Maker and 8-Bit Beat Maker, or jump into rhythm games like Beat Slicer and Piano Drop. Every tool is free, works on any device, and needs nothing more than a modern web browser.
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