ESSNCE

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Essnce works offline. It's built like an instrument you pick up when you get small free time — on a train, on a bus, or just relaxing on the couch.

There's plenty here, but the important parts live on five screens.

COMPOSE

Write music on a staff and hear it played 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 right on your 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, all 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 instruments you can actually play.

• 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 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, normalise, reverse

Made for bedroom producers , afrobeats and amapiano heads, alté and afro-house producers, and gospel musicians, along with drill and hip hop beatmakers, 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.