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808
Drum Pads.
Sixteen pads. Eleven sounds. Four pitched variants. Tap them. Use your keyboard. Feel the tempo. Real TR-808 samples loaded into Web Audio API buffers.
TR-808 DRUM PADS
tap a pad to start
VOL
keyboard: 1 2 3 4 · Q W E R · A S D F · Z X C V
bottom row = pitched variants · real TR-808 samples via Web Audio API
How it works
Samples load from a public CDN on first tap. Decoded into AudioBuffers. Each pad fires a BufferSource node through a GainNode. Bottom row uses playbackRate for pitch shifting — same sample, different character. Synthesis fallback if the network fails.
The 808
Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. Released 1980. Commercial failure. Then hip-hop, house, and techno happened. The kick that shakes speakers. The snare that cracks. The cowbell that became a meme and stayed a classic.