A small, strange machine for turning your own sample collection into something new and exploratory.
Your samples stay local. Feed it a ZIP, find a groove, shape it, and record whatever happens.
Built by omegabloom.
Rock The Creature runs in your browser. Your ZIP is opened and your audio is decoded locally. Your sample collection is not uploaded to Rock The Creature or sent to a server.
Choose a ZIP from your own sample library. The browser opens the pack on your device and looks through the audio files inside it.
It uses filenames, BPM tags, and sample length to recognize useful ingredients such as kicks, snares, hats, percussion, loops, basses, chops, and textures. You can audition and reclassify anything in the crate.
Rock The Creature chooses sounds from your pack, builds a drum pattern, and pairs it with loops. Loops with BPM in their filenames are automatically adjusted toward the track tempo.
Mute lanes, swap samples, reshuffle, hold a pattern, move through loops, open the Mixer, or dig into Discovery Controls. The idea is to get somewhere interesting quickly, then shape what the Creature found.
Recording also happens locally in your browser. When you stop recording, Rock The Creature creates a WAV and saves it through your browser to your device. The recording is not uploaded to us.
Sample libraries can be personal, enormous, commercially licensed, rare, or just plain strange. You shouldn't have to upload that archive to somebody else's cloud just to play with it. Rock The Creature brings the machine to your samples instead.
Rock The Creature listens to filenames as well as the audio itself. A little naming discipline gives it much better ingredients to work with.
kick, snare, clap, hat, hihat, shaker, perc, rim, conga, or tamb.dusty_kick_01.wav, snare_soft_03.wav, closed_hat_07.wav.loop, break, groove, or beat in the filename.dub_groove_84bpm.wav, drum_loop_92_bpm.wav, broken_break_76bpm.wav.bass, sub, and 808 help identify bass material.chop, stab, keys, rhodes, guitar, horn, vox, and vocal are useful for musical one-shots.vinyl, noise, texture, ambience, fx, crackle, and tape are good names for atmosphere.A smaller pack with distinct sounds usually works better than hundreds of near-duplicates. Give the creature choices that actually sound different from one another.
Try roughly 6 to 12 kicks, 6 to 12 snares or claps, 8 to 16 hats and percussion sounds, plus 4 to 10 strong loops with BPM in their filenames. Add a handful of basses, chops, textures, or weird found sounds if you want the pack to have its own personality.
WAV is the safest choice, but MP3, OGG, AIFF, and AIF are also supported. Put the audio files anywhere inside the ZIP. Folder structure does not matter.
Your WAV file has been saved locally to your Downloads folder.