Third Beat

Local-first music software

Tools for the beat
after the obvious one.

Third Beat builds focused tools for musicians who practise deliberately, turn acoustic sound into MIDI, and make physical motion playable.

Meet the instruments Why local-first?
01

Practise

Strumetra
02

Translate

Audetra
03

Perform

StickSignal

One family Three inputs Zero cloud processing

The first beat locates you.

The second proves the pattern.

The third decides where it goes.

01 / Instruments

Three ways into the music.

Read it. Hear it. Strike it. Each tool owns one job and keeps the signal close.

01 Live · Web + macOS

Practice studio

Strumetra Studio

Practice the part, not the software.

Open your own scores, control tempo and repeats, drill chords, build grooves, and score real MIDI drum hits — without uploading your music.

  • Score, chords, metronome and drums
  • Guitar Pro, MuseScore, MIDI and MusicXML
  • Optional LED fretboard and MIDI kit support
Open Strumetra
Score · Local session
Strumetra Studio showing notation, tablature and practice controls
02 macOS · Private build

Acoustic → MIDI

Audetra

Let sound become control.

A native Mac app that turns voice, one-note instruments, or classified drum hits into standard MIDI for a DAW, synthesizer, or connected device.

  • Melody and 12-piece General MIDI drum modes
  • Virtual, USB, Bluetooth and network MIDI output
  • On-device analysis and guided drum calibration

Release preparation · macOS 14+

03 iPadOS · Release candidate

Playable drum surface

StickSignal

Make every strike playable.

Turn an iPad into a responsive drum-pad controller with local acoustic samples, expressive velocity, and immediate CoreMIDI output.

  • Two-pad and six-pad performance layouts
  • Local audio plus USB, Bluetooth and virtual MIDI
  • Pressure or motion-assisted hit dynamics

App Store candidate · not yet released

StickSignal on iPad showing six expressive drum pads

02 / Principles

Close to the musician.
Far from the cloud.

The shortest useful path is usually the best one: instrument to device, device to feedback, feedback to the next attempt.

01

Process on the device

Scores, microphone analysis, touch and motion stay in the local performance path.

02

Start without an account

No identity layer between the musician and the first useful action.

03

Connect to real tools

Standard files, CoreMIDI, Web MIDI and existing music hardware remain first-class.

03 / Availability

Start with the instrument that is already live.

Strumetra Studio runs in a Chromium browser today. Audetra and StickSignal are being prepared for release; their status here will change only when the builds are ready.

Open Strumetra Studio Best web hardware support: Chrome or Edge on desktop.