Sixteen pads, four voices, sixteen steps and a synth under the hood. Play the pads, program the dots, hit RUN — or press REC and capture whatever you play.
Sound starts on tap · nothing to install
Guide / Experiment 02
How to play Signal Pad
Sixteen pads, four voices, sixteen steps and a synth that builds every sound live.
Nothing to install and nothing to load. Two minutes here and you can play the whole machine.
Rows / voices · columns / variants
ABCD
Drums
Bass
Keys
Noise
That is the whole grid. Rows are voices, columns are variants.
On the melodic kits, column A is the root note and D is the highest — the same four columns
run across the sequencer underneath.
PlayTap any pad. Slide your finger across the grid to play a run, and use both thumbs at once — every touch is its own note.
ProgramTap a dot under a pad row to switch that step on. Hold and drag across the dots to paint a whole row fast.
CaptureHit REC, then play four different pads. Signal Pad snaps them to the grid and hands you a loop.
FitAdd the page to your home screen for a full-screen studio. Headphones recommended — the low end is real.
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PadsTyping follows the grid exactly — top row to bottom, left to right. Hold Shift for a full-velocity hit.
Keysspace run or stop · left/right arrows tempo (hold Shift to jump further) · R dice · C clear · F fill · P panic · M mute · ? this guide · Esc stops everything.
MouseClick a pad to play it, drag across the dots to program, and drag the sliders like any fader.
01 Play it
The pads are live instruments, not triggers. Hit one and the whole voice is built at that moment —
oscillator, envelope, filters and send — so every hit has a slightly different shape to it.
Velocity in the control rail sets how hard the pads respond.
02 Change every voice
Mode / Tone swaps the entire kit underneath the same sixteen pads:
DRUMKick, snare, clap, hat. Column A is the deepest, D is the shortest and brightest — HAT in column C opens into a longer decay.
BASSSub, saw, pluck and an acid line. Tuned low and meant to sit under everything else.
KEYSBell, electric piano, marimba, organ. These carry the chords and melody, so they lean hardest on SPACE.
NOISEChime, blip, sweep, vox. Textures, risers and ear candy for between the beats.
Your pattern survives the change — only the sound moves.
03 Change every note
Pattern / Scale is the note set the columns pull from. DARK is minor, NEON is
bright and major, MIAMI adds a wide octave leap, and ACID bends in a flat fifth.
Column A is the root in each case.
The sequencer picks notes from a contour rather than a fixed note per step, which is why a pattern with
three dots in it can still sound like a bassline and not a test tone.
04 Build a beat
Sixteen steps, four lanes — each lane lines up with a pad row, so the top lane is your drums and the
bottom lane is the noise kit. Steps 1, 5, 9 and 13 are the downbeats and marked slightly brighter.
DotsTap to switch a step on or off. Drag to paint. Clear a row by tapping the lit dots.
FillLoads the starter groove — the fastest way to hear what the machine can do.
DiceRandomises the whole grid. It weights each lane differently, and the weighting changes with the pattern you have selected.
ShiftThe two arrow buttons rotate the pattern left or right by one step — instant variation.
You can edit while it runs. Changes land on the next pass, so keep it moving.
05 Run it
RUN starts the transport and every lit dot plays in time. Tempo runs from 60 to 168 BPM —
drag the vari-speed fader or nudge it with the left and right arrow keys. Delay time follows the tempo,
so the echo stays locked to the groove.
PANIC cuts all sound immediately and stops the transport. That is the button for when a take goes
sideways.
06 Capture a take
Press REC and the button arms — the dot goes red and the four pips fill as you play.
RulePlay four different pads. Once the fourth lands, the take locks itself.
GridEvery hit is quantised to the nearest 16th note and the loop length is rounded to a bar, so it will sit in time no matter how loose you played it.
ResultYou get a code, an event count and a name. REPLAY loops it, STORE keeps it, DISCARD drops it.
LoopLong takes become longer loops — anywhere from 4 to 32 steps.
07 Memory
Stored artifacts live in this browser only, under memory in the sequencer header.
Load plays one back on a loop; Erase removes it for good.
Nothing is uploaded and nothing leaves the page. Signal Pad never talks to a server, so your takes are
yours until you clear the browser data.
08 Shape the sound
Eight controls, and they are the difference between a loop and a track.
SampleReshapes the voices — tighter or more open, shorter or longer decay. It applies to every kit, so it is the fastest way to make the whole machine sound like yours.
FilterA resonant lowpass. Pull it down for a muffled, underwater groove and open it up for the drop.
DelayTempo-synced feedback echo. Same setting, different tempo, different rhythm.
DriveSoft clipping. Adds grit and weight without turning into noise.
SpaceReverb. Push it for wide and distant, pull it down for dry and up front.
Try this one: KEYS kit, SPACE high, DRIVE low. Then
ACID pattern, DRIVE high, FILTER low. Two completely different machines.
09 Reading the machine
OutputThe meter next to the tempo is the real output in dB — it moves on every pad hit and every step, so you can see what the machine is doing whether or not sound is coming out of the speakers.
ReadoutThe STEP / VOICE / PATTERN strip tracks the playhead and the last pad you played.
StatusThe line at the bottom left reports audio and transport state — OFFLINE, LIVE, RUNNING, CAPTURING.
SoundThe speaker button in the header mutes everything. Browsers will not start audio until you tap once, so the first tap always counts.
TIP Nothing here is fixed. Change MODE to swap every voice, change PATTERN to change the notes, and the pads still hit the same grid — so you can rebuild the whole machine from the same sixteen squares.
Reopen any time with the ? Guide button in the header
Capture complete
Take locked
Signal Pad snapped your take to the grid. Name it, then replay it or store it in memory.
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Code — —
Memory
Captured artifacts live in this browser only. Load one to loop it, or erase it for good.
TEEKO ✦ DIFFERENT SIGNALS ✦ NO FIXED TEMPO ✦ KEEP MOVING ✦
TEEKO ✦ DIFFERENT SIGNALS ✦ NO FIXED TEMPO ✦ KEEP MOVING ✦
