Kida – Music Performance

Kiɗa (pronounced kee-dah) is a mobile studio for musicians who build tracks out of loops and play them live. Load loops onto a pad grid, lock them to a tempo, add drums and drones on top, and perform the whole thing from your phone — then save it as a setlist and take it to the stage.

GAPLESS LOOPING, LAUNCHED ON THE BAR
Every loop change lands exactly on the bar line. Kiɗa preloads the next loop on a standby player and swaps it at the boundary, so there's no gap, no click and no drift — the launch quantisation you'd expect from desktop software, on a phone.

TEMPO WITHOUT PITCH SHIFT
Nudge the BPM up or down and the playing loop follows immediately. Time-stretching is pitch-preserving from 0.25x to 4x, so a 90 BPM loop and a 140 BPM loop can share a session and stay in tune.

9 DRUM PADS
Load a kit and play drums live over your loops. Assign any sample to any pad, colour-code your layout, and switch kits mid-session without losing your setup.

12 DRONE KEYS
A chromatic row of sustained drone tones, C through B — for tuning up, for practising over a tonal centre, or for laying a bed under a performance. Sharps or flats, your call.

PLAY IT WITH REAL HARDWARE
Connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI controller. Drum pads and drone keys ship with sensible default note mappings (C1–G#1 and C2–B2), and MIDI Learn lets you remap any pad, key or control to whatever your controller sends. Your mappings are saved with the setlist and survive kit changes.

A REAL MIXER
Per-pad volume, stereo pan, mute and solo, plus a master fader. The metronome covers 11 time signatures from 2/4 to 12/8, with adjustable volume and a 1x or 2x tick rate.

SETLISTS
Save a whole session — pads, loops, per-pad BPM and time signature, mixer state, metronome settings and your MIDI map — as a single setlist file. Load it back instantly at the next rehearsal or the next gig.

EXPORT TO ABLETON LIVE
Finished sketching on the phone? Export a setlist as an Ableton Live project and pick it up on the desktop.

A LIBRARY THAT WORKS OFFLINE
Browse loops, drum kits and drone pads by genre or keyword. Favourite what you like, preview before you commit, and download for offline use — downloads are encrypted on device. Bring your own material too: import audio from your device and drop it straight onto a pad.

MARKETPLACE
Buy loop packs and drum kits from creators without leaving the app.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

FREE AND PREMIUM
The free plan gives you the whole studio to try: 1 setlist, 2 loops per setlist, 2 loop downloads, 2 imported loops, 1 drum kit and 1 drone. Kiɗa Premium lifts every cap — unlimited setlists, loops, kits and drones.