Elevated BPM

A hardware-styled groovebox for making techno — playable from the first click, with a goal-checked curriculum woven into the live instrument.

The story

problem
The instrument came last
Learning techno usually means a DAW first, or a course that gates the machine until you pass. Production gets taught as software, not as playing. The moment you actually make a groove arrives too late — if it arrives at all.
build
Instrument first, curriculum inside
Elevated BPM opens as a playable groovebox in the TR-909 / TB-303 lineage: a 16-step drum machine, a 303-style bass, and a stab synth, running on Tone.js. Lessons are JSON — short intros plus declarative goals checked against live pattern state — never a gate. Everything lives in one local ProjectState document; a pattern shares as a URL. The DAW is architecture, not UI.
result
Silence to groove, then export
A classic techno kit is pre-loaded. Sound on first click. An optional arc walks silence to a first techno groove — four-on-the-floor, off-beat hats, a bassline, a filter sweep — then you export MIDI or audio into a real DAW. The app is an on-ramp to Ableton, not a competitor.

Draft plate — the faceplate the tile will become. Replace with a live capture.
Draft plate — the silence-to-groove arc as hardware stops. Replace with a live capture.

Read from the GitHub API at build time.