Beatgrids
rille listens to each track once and marks every beat. Tracks it isn't sure about are flagged, and you can fix them by hand.
Open source
DJ software
Mix your music on up to four decks. rille finds the beat of every track by itself, so your mixes stay in time. Plug in your controller, or stream from Beatport.
- Works on
- Mac, Linux
- Price
- Free, no subscription
- Decks
- Up to four
- Code
- Open source
Features
Sync
Press sync and two tracks play in time. They stay together after loops, cue jumps and scratches.
Four decks
Cue, eight hot cues, loops and beat jumps on every deck. Key lock keeps the pitch when you change the tempo.
Remix decks
Grab loops from any track or load short samples, and fire them off in time with the music.
Mixer
Volume that levels itself, a three-band EQ, a filter, a crossfader and headphone cue, like on a club mixer.
Effects
Delay, reverb, filter, flanger, gater and beatmasher, all in time with the beat.
Library
Your music folders with search, ratings, colours, playlists and history. Bring your Traktor collection along.
Controllers
Ready-made settings for popular DJ controllers, lights included. Teach rille any other MIDI controller with MIDI learn.
Stems
Split a track into drums, bass, vocals and the rest, and turn each part up or down.
Recording
Record your mix to a file, together with a list of the tracks you played.
Drum machine
Sixteen steps and eight drum sounds that play in time with your tracks. Use the kits that come with rille or your own samples.
Beatgrids
Every track gets a grid of beat markers, placed on the kick drum. Most music gets an even grid, tracks that speed up or slow down get one that follows them, and live-played music gets a marker on every single beat.
Not sure a grid is right? Press TICK to hear a click on every beat. Move the grid in the grid editor if needed, and rille remembers it.
Sound
Plug in your sound card and play. Listen to the next track on headphones before the crowd hears it, with a sound card that has four outputs, or by splitting a two-output one between speakers and headphones.
Mixing on a hardware mixer like the Allen & Heath Xone:96? rille can send every deck to its own mixer channel.
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Play from Beatport
With a Beatport streaming subscription, the whole Beatport catalog opens inside rille. Search it, open your Beatport playlists, or paste a link from beatport.com.
Streamed tracks get beatgrids just like your own files, and your cues and grid fixes are kept.
- 01
Sign in
Under Settings → Beatport. rille keeps only a sign-in token, never your password.
- 02
Find
Search, paste a link, or open your playlists and the tracks you played before.
- 03
Load
A track starts playing within seconds, while the rest downloads.
- 04
Mix
Sync, key lock, hot cues and loops work as with your own music. Tracks stay on your computer up to a size you choose.
Needs a Beatport streaming subscription; lossless FLAC needs the Professional plan. rille is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Beatport.
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Drum machine
A 16-step drum machine with eight instruments, built into rille. It plays in time with your tracks: step 1 falls on the first beat of the bar.
Three kits come with rille: 909 Core, 808 Boom and Minimal. Make your own from any samples by putting them in a folder, or drop a track from your library onto an instrument.
Sixteen patterns, swing, accents and live recording. Each instrument has its own tune, decay, level and mute. The drums have their own level, filter, effects and headphone cue.
Every button and knob can be mapped to a MIDI controller, with lights for the steps. A Maschine Mikro MK2 works without any setup. The drum machine is off until you switch it on in the settings, above or below the decks.
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Maschine Mikro MK2
Plug in a Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK2 and it plays the drum machine. The pads, buttons, lights and the display are mapped, so there is nothing to set up.
The 16 pads are the steps of the selected instrument. Hit a pad hard for an accent. PAD MODE turns the top two rows into the eight instruments, played with velocity and recorded live, and the bottom two rows into their mutes.
Hold a button and press a pad for everything else: pick a pattern, mute or solo an instrument, set the length, load a kit, or roll an instrument in time. While a button is held, the display shows what the pads do.
It works next to your DJ controller and opens the drum machine when it is plugged in. SHIFT and a pad does what is printed on it: undo, redo, nudge, copy, paste and tune.
- Pads
- Steps 1–16 of the selected instrument; hit hard for an accent
- PAD MODE
- Play the eight instruments A–H and mute them
- GROUP + pad
- Select an instrument
- MUTE · SOLO + pad
- Mute or solo an instrument
- PATTERN + pad
- Next pattern, starting on the next bar
- NOTE REPEAT + pad
- Rolls in time, 1/4 to 1/32
- GRID + pad
- Pattern length
- SCENE + pad
- Load a kit
- SAMPLING + pad
- The track selected in the library as the instrument's sound
- F1 · F2 · F3
- The encoder edits level, tune or decay
- CONTROL · MAIN
- The encoder edits the drums' filter or volume
- RESTART
- Start on the next downbeat, stop at the end of the bar
- SHIFT + REC
- Count-in: record from the next downbeat
- ERASE + REC
- Replace: a new take clears the instrument's old steps
Maschine and Native Instruments are trademarks of their owners; rille is an independent project. On Linux the Mikro needs the same one-time permission setting as the Traktor controllers.
Controllers
rille comes with ready-made settings for these controllers. Any other MIDI controller can be set up with MIDI learn: move a knob, click the control on screen, done.
- Allen & Heath Xone:K24 decks
- Allen & Heath Xone:96hardware mixer
- Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol F1remix decks
- Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK2drum machine
- Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol Z1mixer · sound card
- Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 MK2deck control
- Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 MK1deck control
- Akai AMXmixer · sound card
- Pioneer DDJ-4002 decks
- Hercules DJControl Inpulse 2002 decks
On Linux, the Native Instruments controllers need a one-time permission setting; the manual shows how. Traktor, Xone, DDJ and the other product names belong to their owners; rille is an independent project.
Install
rille runs on Mac and Linux.
Mac
For Macs with an Apple chip (M1 or newer) on macOS 12 or later. Open the downloaded file and drag rille into your Applications folder.
Download for MacThe first time you open rille, your Mac will say it can't check the app, because rille isn't registered with Apple yet. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only need to do this once.
Linux
For 64-bit PCs on recent distributions. Download the file, allow it to run and open it.
Download for LinuxTo allow it to run, right-click the file, open Properties and turn on Allow executing file as program, or run chmod +x rille-x86_64.AppImage. If it still doesn't open, install libfuse2.
Flatpak
Prefer Flatpak? Download rille-x86_64.flatpak and install it with flatpak install rille-x86_64.flatpak. Needs Flathub set up.
Arch Linux
Arch users can install the included package with cd packaging/arch && makepkg -si, which also sets up the controller permissions.
Build it yourself
rille is written in Rust and Qt. In a copy of the source, ./scripts/install.sh builds and installs it for your user. Requirements are in the manual on GitHub.