Music API
Render music from code
The MAP Audio Music API runs PAM's sound engine on our servers. Send a JSON request and get back audio and MIDI files: loops, stems, variations and DJ mixes rendered from PAM's factory presets, plus drum hits and MIDI patterns. No AI model makes the audio. A preset render returns its seed, and sending that seed again renders the same audio.
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Presets
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2am Factory Time
Late night jungle groove with dusty breaks and deep bass
0.23 min313 Disco
Motor City disco with aquatic funk
0.27 min8bit Castle Poly Bells
Lofi knight vibes from poly triggered bells
0.36 min90s Blimpy
Classic vintage blip house
0.27 minAbsolute Chaos 1
Random file selectoin, step positioning, modulations..
0.26 minAcid Sprinkle
Shinky coldcut funk with big 808 and sprinkle of acid squelch
0.26 minAmentalist
Old skool amen breaks sliced at 170 speed
0.19 minAtmos spaceReadiness
Acid trip into space handled by NASA
0.26 minBack To Strife
hip hop beat with fat bass, piano plink and enough cowbell
0.34 minBardcorder
Funkin drum with ambient chords and fat bass
0.24 minBells and Beats
Melodic bell sequence with breakbeat undercurrent
0.25 minBlackSEAqua
Detroit underwater funk from the black depths
0.27 minBorchestra
Trap 808 beat with stretchy glitch and orchestra notes
0.25 minBreakbeatRCool
More late night rave from the 1990s
0.26 minBreaking Bats
Oneshot amens flying on ENV and LFO wings
0.24 minBrokenly
Distorted breaks drenched in delayed grit
0.29 minCal
Swung broken beat with filtered percussion and granular textures. Pitched metallic hits over reverb-soaked grain pads.
0.19 minCalculator Talk
Vintage talking machine meets PAM
0.27 minCanopy
Swung broken beat with heavy kick-ducking across all cells. Flanged hats and delayed glitch perc over stretched grain pads. Jazz piano clusters with pitch sequences.
0.34 minCaustic Tube
Classic techno machines humming from the Rephlex era
0.27 minCheeky Witch
dark melodic trap beat with distorted 808 bass and unusual percussion
0.25 minChoir Cycle
Cycling choir pads over ambient chords
0.27 minChuckle Trap
heavy-ish trap 808 beat with distorted bass, man group 'hey' and female chuckle
0.24 minConspiracy
Hidden vocal textures pulsing with LFO patterns
0.27 minCorduroy
Swung SP1200 drums with polyphonic piano chords over warm bass. Ghost rimshots and a vocal pad underneath.
0.37 minCornwall Technics
Micro-edited drums dancing with chaotic detail
0.27 minCTRL Mapture
Ecstatic electro vibes captured in groove
0.26 minDH Drumrush
Low quality drum noises doing a dirty, clumsy rhythm
0.26 minDoor 913
Chonky trap beat with glitchy sub
0.25 minDorkestra Hop
cheap-sounding drums and strings in a hip hop style beat with strings and fat bass
0.34 minDrippy Perks
little percussion noises doing their funky thing
0.28 minDronava 2050
Sine wave LFOs humming with cold machine consciousness for sound design
0.27 minDubwise Cycle
Dubby rhythms cycling through space
0.25 minDuck Trap
heavy trap 808 beat and sub with unearthly vocal stab
0.26 minDust Step
Dubstep meets sound design in textural chaos
0.36 minEffervesce
Hot fizzing beats popping through random chaos
0.27 minElastic Warp Trap
Stretchy IDM beats with trap influenced bounce
0.36 minElectribal
Tribal beats charged with electro energy
0.27 minElement One Beat1
Punchy bass-driven beat with zappy glitch textures, stuttered edits and electric transients. Crafted for sharp, high-energy grooves.
0.27 minElement One Beat2
Massive big beat fusing deep bass foundations with ravey drum hits. Built for expansive, larger-than-life productions.
0.27 minElement One Beat3
Dub-infused club beat with rolling sub bass, smoky delays and hypnotic low-end pressure. Perfect for late-night dancefloor sessions.
0.27 minElement One Beat4
Aggressive broken beat shaped by envelope-driven parameter shifts, distorted textures and evolving rhythmic tension. Designed for unpredictable, dynamic sequencing.
0.27 minElement One Beat5
Haunting ambient beat layered with dark textures, subterranean drones and minimal percussive pulses. Ideal for cinematic, shadowy atmospheres.
0.27 minEletr8ko
CR8000 electro rhythm with distorted bass and unclean plinks
0.25 minFonkenShonk
Shonky funk with no particular key centre
0.27 minForest Ghosts
Distant forest birds wandering in shifting ambient mist
0.27 minForm Audioworks SFX1
Lush piano patch with poly mode retrigger and LFO modulation, creating evolving harmonic motion and rhythmic shimmer. Perfect for cinematic, expressive keys.
0.27 minForm Audioworks SFX2
Undulating drone texture with cinematic SFX layers, deep sub frequencies and slow-moving harmonic shifts. Built for tension-building soundscapes.
0.27 minForm Audioworks SFX3
Experimental ambient patch crafted from processed guitar samples, granular textures and atmospheric reverbs. Ideal for abstract, otherworldly compositions.
0.27 minForm Audioworks SFX4
Warm ambient synth patch drenched in vintage tape saturation, lo-fi wow & flutter and nostalgic harmonic warmth. Crafted for dreamy, retro-flavored productions.
0.27 minForm Audioworks SFX5
Offgrid glitch beat shaped by an intricate LFO matrix, fractured textures and unpredictable rhythmic mutations. Designed for forward thinking, experimental sequencing.
0.27 minFreak Club
90s bleep techno/electro Heavy sub-bass, raw analog sequences, hypnotic arpeggios, and that classic UK warehouse sound. Built for dark dancefloors and late-night raves.
0.27 minGator Funk
Fluid electro with predator LFO flow
0.25 minGhetto Juice
Raw funky electro squeezed from the streets
0.27 minGrain Feedback Beat
Granular rhythm swimming in feedback haze
0.27 minHands In Air
Constant hand in the air moment with clattering drums, angelic chords and a rising sub
0.24 minHard Target
Dark electro tracking through hostile zones
0.27 minHip Chonk
hip hop beat with fat bass, sonar noises and a flute glissando
0.34 minHip Jazz
jazz kit hip hop beat with knight rider style muted guitar and double bass
0.35 minIcicle
Frozen IDM textures melting through LFO and reverb
0.27 minIncredibly Serious
insistent choir metronome with trap 808s and dark melody
0.25 minJangle Jonkle
Rhythm from twig snaps, and metal drops
0.26 minJellarater
Classic retro sounding jazz swing beat, with a glissando guitar and a simple bass line.
0.29 minJilla Stylee
j dilla style beat with sub, chord sample and bell gliss
0.34 minJunglistic
Midnight jungle with sub and glitch vocal
0.23 minKick The Trap
funky trap with vocal samples, kicking it and OW
0.28 minLeckingTro
1980s style electro beat with bass and glissando chord
0.25 minLego Nil
Modular stillness drifting through amber haze
0.27 minMalachite
Organic layers blooming with green warmth
0.27 minMangles
Broken electro beat with random bells and tuff bass
0.23 minMidnight Drift
Warm grooves fading softly into the night
0.27 minMolasses
Nocturnal hip hop floating in slowmo
0.4 minMostlyChoir
Spacious choir notes accompanied with glitchy breakbeat and bass
0.26 minMr Sharp Rush
Old skool techno with sharp rushing filtered sequences
0.27 minMy Milky Grainola
Crispy grain textures tossed in glitch mix
0.25 minNaturhal
Jaws harp glitch and world drums on hiphop beat with essence of rave
0.28 minNight Marbles
Dark IDM with bouncing ball physics
0.36 minNight Sirens
hip hop loops with a sub, scratching and mangled guitar
0.34 minNot Quite Contentment
hip hop beat with muted guitar, organ chord and extra ride
0.34 minObsidian
Tribal voices humming within black stone
0.27 minOffgrid Ritual
Chopped organic percs swinging offgrid
0.27 minOld Jenkinson
Old school braindance jungle from the retrigger era
0.19 minPambients Works
Dreamy preset weaving delicate bells through lush ambient pads, floating textures and gentle harmonic shimmer. Crafted for cloud-soft, nature-inspired moments.
0.32 minPamen Andrews 165
Funky amen slices bouncing with Vibert energy
0.19 minParrotechno
Repetitive techno mimicking itself endlessly
0.27 minPhantom Operation
Shadowy electro striking with surgical precision
0.27 minPlucks Given
Digital plucks making semi-random triads with a mildly glitchy beat
0.25 minPrelectroh
Classic electro beat from the late 1980s
0.22 minPrimalotic
Hypnotic primal beats with seqs weaving in and out
0.27 minPriser
Rising textures climbing to the peak
0.27 minProbably Meaningful
melodic trap with piano, 808 drms, sub and odd percussion
0.25 minProfat Trucks
Big rig electro with fat funky punch
0.27 minPuddle Stomp
Straight hip-hop kit with vinyl kick, 808 sub and filtered grain texture. Clean and punchy.
0.35 minRaining Plicks
Plinks and plocks scattered and raining down
0.25 minReefjumper
Tranquil aquatic grooves jumping reef to reef
0.27 minRocktrow
Rock noises doing rock beat and slap bass
0.24 minRubber Filters
Bouncy filter movements with rubbery bass
0.32 minSleepy Clatter
crunchy hip hop beat with percussive glitches, solid bass and pipey melody
0.34 minSliceHeave
Squirty electro bass over a cut-up drum loop
0.24 minSlop Therapy
Gummy IDM patterns stretching through chaos
0.27 minSlow Rave Hop
classic hip hop with resonant bass, chord and whispy vocal sample
0.34 minSnare Sculpt
Electro grooves shaped by punchy snare envelopes
0.27 minSnow Fox
Icy textures drifting through silent white
0.27 minSomething's Wrong
Mysterious trap beat with minimal melody
0.25 minSvaram Seq
Organic perc with retrigger and seq rate modulation
0.27 minSwingToWin
fast swing thing with a fluffy bass and marimba melody
0.26 minSymphonic Breaks
Symphonic strings with clattery breakbeat
0.25 minTeknochonic
Technotronic-style beat and bass with little synth and vocal parts
0.26 minTensile
IDM stretched and bent like heated metal
0.27 minThaw
32-bar structured kit with four-section evolution. Breaks-driven rhythm that builds from sparse hits to full density then dissolves.
0.24 minTotes Rando
Another random selectin of samples, steps and modulations
0.25 minWhibal
Percussion-heavy old school house beat and bass
0.28 minWoodance
Simple organic groove with wooden percs
0.29 minZTekno Drum Kit1
ZTekno drum kit featuring tight groove patterns with tribal percussion layers
0.27 minZTekno Drum Kit2
Sharp, dynamic and unpredictable. Space-driven techno drum kit
0.27 minZTekno Drum Kit3
Deep bass, half-time swing and techno grit. A low-end focused drum kit where hip hop pocket meets industrial techno.
0.27 minZTekno Drum Kit4
ZTekno drum kit shaped by intricate tribal pattern, broken techno cadences and expressive velocity curves.
0.27 minZTekno Drum Kit5
ZTekno drum kit with a simple breaky electro beat, punchy kicks and clean percussion grooves.
0.19 min
Example renders
Rendered by the API from factory presets. Each lists its seed: send that seed again and the same audio comes back.
What you can make
Loops at any length
A factory preset rendered for a number of bars or seconds, up to five minutes, as WAV, FLAC or MP3.
/v1/rendersVariations and seed batches
A preset's variation slots, a batch of seeds, a morph toward another preset or a blend of several, in one job.
variationsStems
A file per cell beside the master, in the render's format. Stems use no render-minutes.
stems: trueCutdowns and DJ sets
Fit a preset to an exact length across its variations, or mix presets into a DJ set with PAM's transitions.
/v1/arrangements/v1/dj/setDrum hits and MIDI
Drum hits from PAM's drum synth engines, and seeded genre patterns with an optional MIDI file. Neither uses render-minutes.
/v1/synth/drum/v1/pattern/generateMeasure and master
Loudness and peaks (BS.1770), or PAM's master chain, on files the API rendered.
/v1/audio/analyze/v1/audio/master
Built for agents
Everything an agent needs to use the API on its own: an OpenAPI document, Markdown docs, an MCP server at https://api.map.audio/mcp and an installable skill.
npx skills add https://map.audio --skill map-music-apiOne request
With Prefer: wait=30 the API holds its answer until the render finishes, for up to 30 seconds; a longer render answers 202 with the job to poll. Read the docs
curl -sS https://api.map.audio/v1/renders \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MAP_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Prefer: wait=30" \
-d '{"source":{"preset":"pam:factory/313-disco"},"bars":8,"seed":42}'Plans for invited accounts
Invited accounts start on the free plan. Paid plans raise the monthly allowance, how many renders run at once and how long files are kept; bought render-minutes top up any plan at $0.03 each.
| Free$0a month | Creator$12a month | Pro$39a month | EnterpriseContact us | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Render-minutes a month | 30 | 400 | 1,500 | 20,000 |
| Audio a month, up to | 30 minutes | 6.7 hours | 25 hours | 333.3 hours |
| Renders at a time | 2 | 2 | 5 | 20 |
| Files kept | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days | 30 days |
- One render-minute is one minute of rendered audio. Each master file is charged what it rendered, at least 6 seconds. Stems are not charged.
- Allowances reset on the first of each month (UTC). A plan bought mid-month gets the whole month's allowance at once.
- Bought render-minutes last 1 year and top up any plan. Jobs use the monthly allowance first, then bought minutes, soonest expiry first.
- A job holds its estimate while it runs and settles at what it rendered. A failed or cancelled render costs nothing.
- Prices are in US dollars before tax. Stripe adds any tax at checkout. Cancel a plan in the billing portal and it runs to the end of the period you paid for.
Request access
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