🕹️ Beep Boop Studio
Tap the squares to make a song. Each row is a note. Press Play and the beeps go round and round.
The tune: a thin, beepy voice.
How the Beep Boop Studio works
Old game consoles made their music with a tiny sound chip that could only play four sounds at once: two beepy voices for the tune, a soft triangle for the bass, and a hiss of noise for the drums. The studio has the same four lanes. Pick a lane, tap a square, and that note plays on that step.
A bar is sixteen squares, counted in fours: one, two, three, four. The brighter squares are where each beat starts. A song can be one, two or four bars long, and it plays round and round, so a pattern that repeats sounds like a real song. Copy bar 1 to every bar makes a pattern repeat, then change one bar to make it your own.
Every row is a note of the pentatonic scale, five notes (do, re, mi, so, la) that always sound good together, so nothing you tap can sound wrong. The rows show do-re-mi, and letter names (C, D, E, G, A) from third grade. Bouncy, Spooky and Hero start a lane off with a pattern you can change.
On Peabody Radio, the Beep Boop Arcade station has a Make it mine button: it opens the tune that is playing here, as four lanes, for you to change.
For grown-ups: nothing is typed and nothing is sent. A song’s name is picked from three silly names, and songs are kept on this device. The music follows the sound switch and the music switch, and nothing plays until a tap.