Learn Hack The Beats

Start here

What Hack The Beats is, what Strudel does, what you can do without an account, and four ways in depending on what you want.

1. What is this?
2. Play first
3. Four ways in
4. What is free, and what needs an account

Play with a beat

Everything you can do to a song without touching its code: the lit stage, the channels, the knobs and switches, the Try row, the song map, the views and the song list.

1. The stage
2. Channels
3. Knobs
4. Switches

Perform

The DJ booth: two decks kept in time, Mix and the crossfader, the six pads, the master section, snapshots of a channel as live loops, and a MIDI controller on all of it.

1. Two decks
2. Sync and Mix
3. Pads
4. Master

Remix

Change a song while it plays: edit the code live, swap sounds, cut and rearrange its bars, capture loops from one song into another, keep versions, and take someone else's song as your own.

1. Edit the code while it plays
2. The smallest edits with the biggest effect
3. Cut, keep and rearrange the bars
4. Capture loops from one song into another

Build for Hack The Beats

For people who write Strudel: how the site reads a song, which lines become knobs, switches, channels and suggestions, and how to write one that performs well on the stage, the decks and the strip.

1. Strudel in ten lines
2. Start a song
3. How the site reads your code
4. The header

Record and share

Record the mix to a WAV file, make a short video clip of the code playing, share a song by link, offer it to the community shelf, and take your songs with you.

1. Record the mix
2. Video clips
3. Share a song by link
4. The community shelf

Reference

Every control on the player by its label: what it does, its key, and whether it needs an account. Then the keys, MIDI, the site's addresses and what is not supported.

1. The screen
2. Top bar
3. Stage bar
4. Song map

Glossary

Every word the site uses, in a sentence or two, with a link to the section that explains it.