A free beat studio that runs on your computer.
It works the way FL Studio works, and it writes ideas with you.
Unpacked
What BeatLab is
BeatLab is a beat studio for people who make beats. Patterns, a playlist, a piano roll you can play and a full mixer, laid out the way FL Studio taught your hands. It writes ideas with you, it runs on your own computer, and it will never ask you for a subscription.
01 · Playlist
Numbered patterns go onto a free playlist as clips, right next to your audio. Draw, paint, delete, mute, slice and select, with snap, zoom and markers. Shift-drag a copy, right-click to delete.
02 · Piano roll
Click a key and it plays. Stamp chords, lock to the key, quantize, legato, and shape velocity by drawing. Record from your computer keyboard or a MIDI controller, or just hum the tune: BeatLab writes it down in key and on the beat.
03 · The brain
Pick one of twelve styles and press Make a beat: drums, 808, chords and melody, written in a moment and kept in patterns you can edit. Switch on AI melody and AI drums and a small model runs right in your browser. No account, no bill.
04 · Mixer
Every channel gets an insert with pan, reverb and delay sends, and a chain of effects you can bypass and reorder, from EQ and compression to half-time and Tune. Then the mix doctor listens, scores it out of 100 and fixes what it hears.
05 · Master
A master chain with glue, width and a ceiling, a tilted spectrum and true LUFS meters with targets for Spotify and Apple Music. Then export WAV, MP3, stems or MIDI and carry on in FL Studio.
Its own brain
Everything the brain does is an ordinary edit you can see, change and undo with one Ctrl+Z. It runs on your own computer, so there’s no account and no AI bill.
Ask in words
Type what you want and BeatLab shows its plan before doing it. It understands tempo, key, parts, effects and the mix, and a small free AI model can rewrite anything else into a plan.
Hum it
BeatLab hears each note, cuts them where your syllables change, and snaps them to the song’s key and the beat, in the right octave for the part.
The mix doctor
33 → 94
It listens to your beat part by part, names each problem in plain words, like the kick fighting the 808, and fixes it in one click. That’s the starter beat, before and after.
Two ways to work
Rig puts one big screen above the hardware: pads, the brain and a turntable you can scratch. DAW gives you floating, resizable windows over the playlist, like the studio you already know. Drag the line to compare.
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On your phone
Open BeatLab on a phone and it becomes one screen at a time, with big buttons for your thumbs. Song, Beat, Keys and Mix are a tap apart. Make holds the brain, the drum pads, humming and the mix doctor. It’s the same studio and the same project.
Built in, free
Original BeatLab plugins on every channel, nothing to buy. Your FL Studio plugins stay in FL: send them BeatLab's MIDI and stems and keep going.
Shortcuts
The FL Studio keys work here: function keys for the windows, letters for the tools, and Ctrl+K finds any action by name. Press F1 in the studio to see every one.
Get it
Download it from GitHub, unzip it and double-click Install BeatLab. Or press Open the studio to use it right here in your browser.
The shortcut on your Desktop opens it in Chrome or Edge. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay.
Or open an empty pattern and play the keys. Everything saves as you go.
Questions
Yes. No subscription, no account and no ads. The AI runs on your own computer, so there's no bill to pass on to you.
It works the way FL Studio works, so you can sketch, arrange and mix without relearning anything. When you want your FL plugins, export MIDI, stems or WAV and carry on in FL. BeatLab isn't made by or connected to Image-Line.
Only to load the app the first time and, if you switch them on, the AI models. Your beats never leave your computer.
In your browser's storage on this computer, saved as you work, with named versions you can go back to. Save a project file any time to back a beat up or move it to another computer.
Yes. Drop a WAV or MP3 onto any channel or straight onto the playlist. If FL Studio is installed, BeatLab can play its sample packs too.
Chrome or Edge on a computer, or the browser on your phone. A MIDI keyboard and a microphone work if you have them, and the computer keyboard plays notes if you don't.
Yes. On a phone the studio shows one screen at a time with a tab bar at the bottom: Song, Beat, Keys, Mix and Make. Plugin windows open full screen and menus slide up from the bottom. Headphones help when you hum or record.
