Spin
Pull the lever or hit SPIN and all three reels roll. The RANDOM buttons reroll a single reel, the ‹ › arrows let you pick by hand, and a padlock keeps a reel you like while the others spin.
A new free plug-in · Rems Plugins
Lucky Beats
Pull the lever. Get a beat.
A slot machine for producers. Three reels pick an instrument, a pattern and a key, a fourth panel deals the chords, and the loop plays right away. Like it? Drag it into your DAW as MIDI or audio. Don't? Spin again.
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See it spin
Two minutes inside Lucky Beats 1.4.1, filmed in the plug-in with its own sound, including a spin played by a VST synth (Halcyon). Turn your sound up.
Try your luck
The same three reels as in the plug-in, with the same lists. Spin them here to see what kind of combos you'll get, and click a padlock to keep a reel while the others roll. In the plug-in, the loop starts playing the moment the reels stop.
Instrument
Pattern
Tonality
Pull the lever: Keys, Hip Hop Groove, A minor is where the machine left off.
Ten spins, no cheating
Ten pulls of the lever in a row, straight out of the plug-in with its built-in sounds. Each loop is four bars, in key, at the machine's tempo. In the plug-in you can stretch it to 8, 12 or 16 bars.
Lucky Beats · demo of 10 spins
Built-in sounds, no effects added afterwards
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How it works
Listen
▶ plays the loop, 4 to 16 bars long. Set the tempo or click DAW SYNC to follow your project, roll the dice in CHORDS for another progression, and keep spinning until it clicks.
Cash out
Drag EXPORT TO DAW onto a track and the MIDI is there. Click it for MIDI and WAV tags you can drag too, or click a tag to save the file in Documents/Lucky Beats.
What's on the reels
Instrument
DrumsBass808KeysPianoLeadPadPluckStringsBrass
All synthesized by the plug-in. Or play them with your own synth (see below).
Pattern
Hip Hop GrooveBoom BapTrapLo-FiHouseDeep HouseTechnoDrum & BassReggaetonAfrobeatFunkSynthwaveUK GarageDubstepDrillAmapianoDiscoTrip HopR&BDancehallPopPhonk
The reel shows the notes that are really playing, as a mini piano roll with a playhead.
Tonality
CC#DD#EFF#GG#AA#B
Every root, in major and in minor: 24 keys in all.
10instruments
22patterns
24keys
12chord progressions per mode
The house always helps you win
Chords that fit, dealt at random
The CHORDS panel shows the chords of the loop with their degrees, for example Am7, G7, Fmaj7, Em7 (i, VII, VI, v), and the chord that's playing lights up.
- 12 progressions per mode, always in the key on the Tonality reel.
- The dice deals a new progression, ‹ › browse them, and every SPIN draws a fresh one.
- 4, 8, 12 or 16 bars, with a real song progression over the whole length (A B, A B C, A B A C). Tabs above the chords show each section.
Play it with your own synth
Click RANDOM GENERATOR VST on the left of the machine and pick any VST3 or AU instrument installed on your computer: Serum, Analog Lab, Kontakt, or anything else.
- The reel picks the part (bass, chords, lead…) and your synth plays it.
- Every spin loads one of its presets at random, and its name shows under the reel.
- Preset picker: tick the presets the spins may draw from, with All, None and search. Click one to hear it.
- My Sounds: for synths that keep their presets to themselves, open the synth's window, find a sound you love and click + Add to my sounds. The spins then draw from your list.
- The WAV export is rendered with that sound.
From the reels to your track
- Drag and drop: drag EXPORT TO DAW onto a track for the MIDI, or click it for MIDI and WAV tags that drag too. Works in Ableton Live and any DAW that accepts drag and drop.
- DAW SYNC: the loop follows your project's tempo and bars.
- Slot machine sounds for the lever, the reels and the jackpot bell. Turn them off with a right-click. They never end up in your exports.
- A machine, not a box: on macOS the DAW's title bar is hidden, so only the machine shows. Move it by its body, close it with the big ×.
- Standalone app: no DAW needed. The window takes the shape of the machine.
- Resizable: right-click to change the size of the machine.
Hit the jackpot
Free for macOS (VST3 + AU + Standalone, Apple Silicon + Intel), Windows 10/11 (VST3 + Standalone, 64-bit) and Linux (VST3 + LV2 + Standalone).
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Install
macOS
- Unzip the download.
- Double-click
fix_mac_plugins.command: it installs the VST3 and the AU, unblocks them and forces a rescan. - Or copy
VST3/LuckyBeats.vst3to~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3andAU/LuckyBeats.componentto~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components. Logic and GarageBand only use the AU. - Restart your DAW and rescan plug-ins. Lucky Beats is an instrument, by Rems Plugins.
Windows
- Unzip the download.
- Copy the
LuckyBeats.vst3folder (insideVST3) toC:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. - Restart your DAW and rescan plug-ins. In Ableton Live: Options → Preferences → Plug-Ins → Rescan.
If SmartScreen warns about the standalone app, click More info → Run anyway. It isn't code-signed yet.
Linux
- Unzip the download.
- Copy
LuckyBeats.vst3to~/.vst3andLuckyBeats.lv2to~/.lv2. - Restart your DAW and rescan. Works in Bitwig, Reaper, Renoise, Tracktion, Ardour, Carla and Zrythm (x86_64, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer).
If macOS blocks it
The plug-in is not notarized by Apple yet, so macOS may block it. Paste this into Terminal, then restart your DAW:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/LuckyBeats.vst3 ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/LuckyBeats.component
Keep the machine running
Lucky Beats is free and stays free: no subscription, no account, no crippled demo. If one of its loops ends up in your tracks, a coffee pays for the dev hours and the next plug-ins.
Show us your winnings
What was your luckiest spin? Which instrument or groove should join the reels next? Sign in with a free GitHub account to post.
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