SEE THE BEATS.

HEAR THE DIFFERENCE.

LIQUID RHYTHM

POWERFUL BEAT MAKING SOFTWARE

Liquid Rhythm lets you create intricate, interesting beats with unprecedented speed and precision. It’s the first sequencer that lets you make beats using note clusters and patterns instead of individual notes, and it completely streamlines your workflow. Get started using the built-in sample library, trigger your virtual instruments, and experiment with new rhythmic patterns. Whether you use a Mac or PC, Ableton Live or other DAWs, Liquid Rhythm will help you realize your music’s full potential.

Visualize your beats with our intuitive Music Molecule technology

Make complex, unique beats instantly using a collection of rhythmic building blocks

Tweak and customize beats in real-time with powerful editing tools

Use Liquid Rhythm standalone, with your DAW, or fully integrated with Ableton Live Suite via the Max for Live plugin

VST / AU / AAX / Max for Live

AN INTUITIVE PATTERN-BASED WORKFLOW

SEE YOUR BEATS IN A WHOLE NEW WAY

Liquid Rhythm uses an intuitive pattern-based musical language to transform your workflow and let you visualize beats in a whole new way. Use the color-coded Music Molecule structure to help effectively navigate the space of rhythmic possibilities or to selectively target aspects of your beat to vary or complexify.

BUILD ANY BEAT IMAGINABLE

EVERY RHYTHM YOU’VE NEVER THOUGHT OF

Liquid Rhythm offers a collection of rhythmic building blocks that allow you to craft complex, intricate beats and experiment with rhythmic hooks in seconds. Just drag-and-drop bar-length and beat-length patterns onto the arranger by selecting from a series of rhythmic pattern navigation tools. With so many subtle variations on offer you’ll always have easy ways to try out something a little different, yet related, or ways to start something entirely new.

DEEP INTEGRATION WITH ABLETON LIVE VIA MAX FOR LIVE

GET IN THE GROOVE. AND STAY THERE.

Liquid Rhythm and Ableton Live Suite combine to create the ultimate solution for MIDI-based beat creation. Liquid Rhythm’s powerful MIDI sequencing and editing tools integrate seamlessly with Ableton Live’s production and performance workflow to make it quicker and easier to experiment with new rhythmic ideas and craft complex, memorable beats. With the Max for Live plugin, you can build, explore, and manage tracks in real time while your MIDI data constantly updates between the two programs.

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Our Max for Live plugin provides a seamless integration between Liquid Rhythm and Ableton Live, which allows you to:

Speed up the creation of rhythm tracks in Ableton Live clips
Integrate with Ableton Drum Racks
Create and remix MIDI patterns in Ableton Live clips
Explore variations and alternatives in real-time
Implement rhythmic ideas into the MIDI clip piano roll instantly
Build beats entire bars at a time
Use your own samples to create truly original beats
See relationships between notes in your MIDI clips with Liquid Rhythm’s Music Molecule MIDI visualization technology

POWERFUL EDITING TOOLS AND EFFECTS

TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR BEATS

Liquid Rhythm gives you unprecedented control over your drum patterns. You can fine-tune your beats with a suite of razor-precise editing tools and powerful MIDI effects.

BEATFORM TUMBLER

The BeatForm Tumbler lets you isolate any region of your beat and turn up the complexity with a simple turn of a knob. Looking to simplify a beat? It’s just as easy. Simply click on the region you would like to change and turn the knob to cycle through an array of note clusters to find the one that best suits the music.

BEATWEAVER

The BeatWeaver is a rhythm design tool. Based on your choices, it generates rhythmic patterns you can play with. It’s made up of three parts: the BeatForm Circuit, the Step Sequencer, and the BeatWeave List. Select some BeatForms and drag them into the BeatForm Circuit. From there, the BeatForms are automatically sent through the BeatForm Step Sequencer and into the BeatWeave List—a table that shows every possible combination of your selected BeatForms. Each entry reflects a different combination made up of the same initially selected building blocks. Choose your favorite variation from the list and drag it into the Arranger.

BEATSEEKER

BeatSeeker is the perfect tool for exploring new instruments and navigating the multitude of rhythm options in BeatWeaver. BeatSeeker automatically looks at every possible beat and highlights the most commonly occurring patterns for whatever instrument you’re working with. Not sure what to do with the hi-hat? Click on a region in the hi-hat track and BeatSeeker will highlight the most frequently used patterns—the darker the highlight color, the more frequently it’s used. BeatSeeker automatically runs intelligent algorithms to help you find just the right groove.

MAPS

The BarForm and BeatForm maps display every combination of rhythmic patterns possible in a 4/4 bar in organized wheel charts. Whether you’re looking for a simple four-on-the-floor kick drum beat or a complex frenzy of instruments, it’s all on the map wheels—simple beats are organized near the center of the wheel, with the beats becoming more complex as you move out toward the edge. Once you find the beat that best suits the song, simply drag it into the Arranger and keep composing.

GROOVEMOVER

The GrooveMover is the perfect tool to instantly remix your beat, leveraging the color-coded Molecule structure to alter the arrangement of the note-clusters in a bar. In the Arranger, select the regions of the beat you want to remix and press the GrooveMover arrows up or down. Based on the underlying color patterns, the beat will transform into a re-ordering of the same building blocks but with a different groove. Use it as a tool to discover variations of your favorite beats or create a shuffled fill.

RANDOMIZER

If you want to loosen your beat up for more of a human feel, the Randomizer can help you out. Set the sliders for your desired degree of fluctuating possibilities across a variety of settings and hit “Surprise Me!” to roll the dice. Want to try some different accent patterns? Set the velocity sliders and controls to some ranges and sprinkle those random variations into your beat. As with all Liquid Rhythm tools, playing around with the Randomizer may lead to some hooky beats you might not have imagined otherwise, so have fun playing around with the results!

LOOP LIBRARY

Built to accommodate any musician, the Loop Library contains an array of MIDI loops that are organized by genre. From Dubstep to Blues, Motown to Trap and beyond, the Loop Library brings intricate and unique beats to any project. Drag and drop or double click on the beat to load it into the Arranger and start down the path of your new project.

THE END OF PIANO ROLL EDITING

NOW THERE’S A BETTER WAY

Editing drum tracks on a piano roll can be time-consuming, or even tedious. Liquid Rhythm lets you create unique, elaborate beats using note patterns and clusters—entire bars at a time. It’s the fastest way to experiment with new sounds and grooves. Assemble rhythm patterns for any instrument using bar-length and beat-length chunks. Convert a straight-ahead hi-hat track into triplets, instantly.

EASY TO USE OPERATION

FAST. INTUITIVE. INSPIRING.

Based on years of research across many areas of music history, music perception and music generation, WaveDNA’s unique proprietary Music Molecule system offers a new way of breaking down MIDI music into rhythmic building-block chunks and separately controllable layers. The resulting pattern-based workflow opens up new musical design possibilities making it easier to quickly create unique and interesting beats in your own personal style.

INTEGRATED TUTORIAL VIDEOS

Liquid Rhythm comes with integrated tutorial videos and a comprehensive quick start guide, so you’ll be creating distinctive beats in no time.

PLUG-IN MODE AND STANDALONE MODE

MAXIMIZE THE POWER OF YOUR STUDIO

Use Liquid Rhythm as an external sequencer and breathe new life into your virtual instruments and sample libraries. Program new, unique drum parts for tracks, experiment with new rhythmic patterns to discover new grooves, or enhance existing parts. VST / AU / AAX / Max for Live plugin formats offer integration with your favorite DAWs. Or use Liquid Rhythm in Standalone mode for a self-contained session.

COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR CONTROLLER

Liquid Rhythm integrates fully with a wide variety of MIDI controllers and input devices to give you a tactile and immersive music creation experience.

Completely MIDI-mappable, so you can use your MIDI hardware to control all panels and tools in Liquid Rhythm
Built-in scripts for Ableton Push 1, Novation Launchpad, Livid Base II

POWERED BY WAVEDNA TECHNOLOGY

GENETICALLY MODIFIED TO INSPIRE

Years of research and development went into creating a modern musical language that synthesizes MIDI and traditional notation—we call it the Music Molecule. It’s a showcase of shapes and colors that helps you visualize the rhythmic structures of music. These structures provide a way to group notes together into little note clusters that you can play with—they can be sequenced, edited and painted.

The Music Molecule allows you to group notes together and create beats entire bars at a time, without requiring any theoretical understanding of music or any advanced skill at any particular instrument. It’s a fresh intuitive way of visualizing music that lets creativity take center stage, and it’s the lifeblood of Liquid Rhythm.