ESSNCE

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Essnce works offline. It's built like an instrument you pick up when you've got a bit of down time, on a train, on a bus, or bored on the couch.

There's too much to list, but the important bits live on five screens.

COMPOSE

Write music on a staff and hear it back in a real instrument voice.

• Tap notes onto a staff; input from piano keys, a guitar fretboard, drum pads, or percussion

• Around 30 instrument voices for playback and notation

• Chords, rests, accidentals, dynamics, slurs, ties, ornaments, and repeats

• Per-note editing: pitch, length, accent, glide, pitch bend

• Key signature, tempo, time signature, and a metronome

• Record from a MIDI keyboard, step or live, over USB or Bluetooth

• Import and export MIDI files

• Export as audio to a Sampler pad, a Drum track, Arrange, your library, or a file

GRAB

Capture sound from anywhere, and pull finished tracks apart into stems on the phone.

• Capture system audio, the mic, a USB mic, or MIDI input

• Live tuner and chord detection while you record

• Auto-detected key, tempo, and chords you can set as the project reference

• Split a song into vocals, drums, bass, and other, entirely on-device

• Preview, level, and A/B the stems against the original mix

• AI stem cleanup that flags problems and suggests fixes you approve

• Send a grab or any stem to a pad, your library, or a note

SAMPLER

A pad sampler that also builds fully playable instruments.

• 16 pads across 4 banks, so 64 sounds

• Record, import, or chop samples; slice a break across the pads

• Play modes: one-shot, gate, sustain, latched loop, with choke groups and mute/solo

• Time stretch with pitch preserved; loops that follow the project tempo

• Per-pad shaping: pitch, resonant filter, ADSR, bit crush, sample-rate reduction, reverse

• Instrument Voice: turn a sample into a keyboard instrument with velocity layers, a synth filter and envelope, and full MIDI expression

• Export your instruments as SFZ or Decent Sampler for desktop DAWs

• Save and load kits; Perform mode plays a loop in live, quantized, with swing

DRUM & ROLL

A step sequencer with a built-in piano roll and proper groove tools.

• Up to 16 tracks by 64 steps, with per-step velocity and accents

• Per-track polymeter, swing, and role-aware humanize

• Lift the groove off one track and paste the feel onto another

• 16-pattern bank, plus Song mode to chain patterns into a full track

• Roll: a piano roll for melodies and chords, with key and scale lock

• GEN: AI builds a pattern from your own samples in any genre, and still works offline from built-in templates

• Beatbox a rhythm into the mic and have it written out as steps

• Per-track FX and EQ, reverb and delay sends, master FX

ARRANGE

A multi-track timeline for turning your pieces into a finished song.

• Place audio clips, drum patterns, and piano-roll parts on tracks

• Non-destructive editing: move, trim, fade, split, and set gain per clip

• Warp any clip to the project tempo with its pitch preserved

• Snap to bars, beats, or triplets, with zoom and multi-clip selection

• Per-track mixer: volume, pan, FX chains, and reverb/delay sends

• Automation you can record live or draw by hand

• Export the mix with every effect and send printed in

• A focused clip editor: trim, transient-slice into the sampler, normalize, reverse

Made for bedroom producers, hip hop beatmakers, trap, drill, lo-fi, afrobeats and amapiano heads, along with singers and rappers writing to their own beats and people scoring Reels, Shorts, and TikToks.

The core tools aren't behind a subscription, a preview timer, or a sample-pack grind. Five screens, one app, on your phone.