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Everything Beat Kitchen makes for music makers — plugins, apps, and free tools. Built by working producers and educators, free to play with in your browser.
Plugins & Apps
BKS Harmony Wheel
Theory-aware chord analysis you can see and hear. Free in your browser; the plugin adds a standalone app and live audio analysis.
BKS Harmonic Synthesizer
An additive synth that builds sound from individual overtones — fold harmonics, scan overtones by scale, gate partials by chord.
Beat Kitchen Grand
A sampled grand piano recorded at Beat Kitchen — honest and compelling rather than perfect. AU and VST3 for macOS.
Chordle
A play-along ear-training game — hear the chord, name it. Sharpen your ear a few minutes a day.
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Free tools
Beat Kitchen Charts
Searchable song charts and chord progressions. Play a chart back and see each chord on the Harmony Wheel and the keyboard as it goes. Residents and instructors can add charts of their own.
XY Scope
Draw shapes with two waveforms — the patterns an oscilloscope makes (Lissajous figures). Set the frequency ratio and phase, watch the figure appear, then learn to build each one in a synth.
Tetrachord Toolkit
Build any scale from two four-note groups, rotate its modes, and harmonize — 100 scales, hundreds of chords.
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Random Chords
Spin up random chords and progressions — for practice, analysis, or a spark of inspiration.
tonNUTZ!
Beat Kitchen's chord construction interface and playable surface, built on Euler's Tonnetz and applied to a three-dimensional torus.
BKS Logic Preference Librarian
Saves your Logic preferences, installs ours, and puts yours back whenever you want. Comes with our full Logic setup guide.
Beat Kitchen Key Visualizer
A MIDI keyboard display for teaching — lights up the notes you play, sized to your controller.
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Ear Candy
Bite-size interactive demos that make a musical idea click — play, poke, and hear it.
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