Make music, faster

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Jolt is a mobile beat machine, perfect for building percussive grooves and electric melodies

Inspired by modular synthesizers and hardware grooveboxes

Designed and built for iOS

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We’re currently in beta, and your feedback would be appreciated. Help guide us on what’s great and what needs more attention.

We’ve opened up a TestFlight group, feel free to join at

https://testflight.apple.com/join/9cggCm44

Pocket BeatS, Massive Sound

Jolt was designed from the ground up to be the mobile beat station that you keep coming back to.

At its core, it’s 8 voices, each with their own step sequencer, with per-section and per-sequence parameter automation, as well as per-instrument LFOs.

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Samples or synths, you choose

Each voice can play any one of the built-in instruments on any step

Break the limits of the 8 voices by mixing multiple instruments into a single pattern, or changing a voice’s instrument as your song progresses

Drum synth

Powerful drum synth, capable of making clicky hi-hats, crushing snares, or pounding kicks

Classic Synth

Wavetable synth with 4 modes: spread, 2-op fm, paraphony, or automatically in-scale chords

Modal Synth

16 sub-synths, based on Mutable Instruments Plaits, from harmonic waveforms to modelled analog drums

SaMpler

Pitched or slicing sampler, with old-skool repitching and per-step sample reversing. Record from your onboard microphone, or load in mp3/wav samples

Effect Chain

Any instrument can have any nunmber of effects attached, in any order

Erode

Bring a grainly, lo-fi feel to any sound

Bitcrush

Cut the bit depth, for that old-school sound

Sample rate reduction

Add some grit for a retro sound

Phaser

Add some movement to your pads or bass

Gater

Simple 4-band EQ to quickly build space in your mix, or use a custom band to let your sound find its space

Stereo Pan

Pan or increase the width of any element to build space in your mix

Overdrive

Crushing distortion, great for making powerful leads or spicing up your drums

Saturator

Light saturator for bringing a bit of warmth, or heavy saturation to bring some fuzz

Chorus

Make your pads shimmer, and your basses bubble

Filter

4-stage ladder filter emulation, or resonant SVF low- high- or band-pass. Equiped with its own mod envelope

Band/EQ

Simple 4-band EQ to quickly build space in your mix, or use a custom band to let your sound find its space

Classic SEND effects

Every instrument can be sent to any number of global effects, each of which is fully configurable

Reverb

Classic plate reverb, with a configurable space from short slap-backs to long tails

Digital Delay

Crystal clear digital delay with BPM sync, ping-pong, and feedback

Multi-Tap

Synced delay with 8 taps, great for adding rhythm to stabs or percussive sounds

Sidechain

Simple per-voice sidechain “ducking”

Modulate and automate everything

  • Per-instrument LFO

    Each instrument has a freely-assignable LFO, with shapes including sine, ramp, or random

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  • Pattern automation lane

    Draw or design synced automation on any pattern, linked to any instrument parameters

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  • Song automation lane

    Automate changes from bar-to-bar, or override in real time with a fader, linked to instruments and effect macros

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Global Effect Macros

Build up to 5 effect macros, bringing one-touch build-ups and breakdowns into your performance. Mix and match from classic performance effects

Reverb

Delay

Phaser

Beat repeat

Resonant low-pass filter

Resonant high-pass filter

Explore, Seqence, jam

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Build patterns with up to 64 steps, by programming steps, playing in midi notes, or with generative algorithms

Chain patterns and attach automation to make longer songs

Combine patterns in performance mode and jam, with live control over instrument parameters and all your effects

Excited Yet?

We’re currently in beta, and your feedback would be appreciated. Help guide us on what’s great and what needs more attention.

We’ve opened up a TestFlight group, feel free to join at

https://testflight.apple.com/join/9cggCm44