Tups - Rhythm Lab & Metronome

Hear polyrhythms as chords. Play any pattern in 39 scales or on a drum kit. A rhythm laboratory for every musician.

Tups is a rhythm laboratory with four modules — a discovery space for musicians who want to go deeper into rhythm.

Where one small idea unfolds into hundreds of possibilities.

▶ TUPS — Every subdivision from 2 to 12

Every tuplet from 2 to 12 in a single interface. Tap any note to mute or activate, and see every possibility inside one beat — the fastest way into 5s, 7s and 11s.

Open Possibilities mode to see every syncopation variation of a tuplet, then build your own phrases with two sequencers: Arrange (drag-and-drop variations) or Compose (tap notes one by one).

▶ A&R+ — Sticking practice, reimagined

An interactive sticking workspace. Write your own melody by placing accents on tuplet notes, then hear how it changes when you apply different stickings.

Start from built-in jazz standard presets or write your own. Shadow and Mirror modes turn one simple sticking into dozens of variations — endless phrasings from a single idea.

▶ PATTERN — Familiar motifs, infinite possibilities

Take a small idea. Play it in any tuplet. Start it anywhere, end it anywhere. Feel how the same phrase lives in 5/8, 7/8, a triplet, a quintuplet.

• Drummer Mode — R / L / K / H notation for any sticking
• Melodic Mode — 39 scales at your fingertips, with a Melodic Visualizer that shows your pattern on a real piano or guitar
• Dual Scale — hear how the same pattern sounds across two different scales, two different keys or modes

A freedom tool for pianists, guitarists, saxophonists — and for composers stuck in their own phrases.

▶ TUP LAB — Polyrhythms and grooves

A four-channel drum machine. Each channel runs its own tuplet, its own sound and its own pattern — all locked to one master tempo. Build 7 against 4. Build 5:3:7. Hear a polyrhythm come together one channel at a time.

Polyrhythm Mode — a focused space to make polyrhythms easier to grasp, in three ways:

• Clock — the polyrhythm laid out like a clock face, each channel circling at its own ratio
• Orbit — same idea, different metaphor — each channel a planet, faster tuplets orbit faster
• Pitch — push the polyrhythm fast enough and rhythm crosses into pitch. The same ratio becomes a chord. 43 chord presets built on polyrhythm ratios

Per-channel swing (50–66%) on 2-tuplet patterns — for jazz, blues, shuffle and funk.

▶ THE METRONOME

Native audio engine accurate to ±20 microseconds, 500× tighter than the human ear — zero drift to 500 BPM. Pendulum and orbit visuals, Tap Tempo, and a wide library of click sounds.

Silent Practice — mute the metronome at bar or beat level, pattern-based or random, to build your inner clock. Save unlimited presets for the metronome and for Silent Practice.

Free:

• Fully ad-free, 100% offline, no tracking
• Practice Tracker — automatically logs your total practice time across all of Tups, plus your own exercises with duration and BPM, all on a calendar
• Melodic Visualizer — see your pattern on a real piano or guitar
• All four modules at core level

Pro (7-day free trial on monthly or yearly plan):

• Polyrhythm Mode — read a polyrhythm as a clock or as orbiting planets, or hear it as a chord with 43 polyrhythm-based chord presets
• Grouping mode — layer cross-rhythms and polymeters
• Dual Scale — play the same pattern across two different scales
• Arrange and Compose — two sequencers to build full tuplet phrases or note-by-note patterns
• Silent Practice — random or pattern-based muting
• Save, Load and Share — unlimited presets and .tups file sharing
• Unlimited tuplets, BPM, longer patterns and more bars across all four modules

Explore the space between the beats. Start your 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime. No tracking. 100% offline. Built by a working jazz drummer, shaped by feedback from the musicians who use it.

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