What You Get For Nothing

Sample From Any App

Hear something on Spotify, YouTube, a voice note, wherever — grab it. System audio capture pulls sound straight from your phone. Plug in a USB mic for vocals. The sample is on your pad before the idea fades.

Stem Separation

Capture a full song and ESSNCE pulls it apart into four isolated layers — drums, bass, other instruments, and vocals. Grab the drums for a break, extract the vocal for a remix, or isolate the bassline to study the groove. Each stem saves to its own pad.

64 Pads Across 4 Banks

Velocity-sensitive and position-aware across 64 pads in 4 banks. Hit the bottom of the pad for a hard strike, brush the top for ghost notes. Zero latency. Switch banks instantly to access more sounds without leaving the groove. Finger-drum a full performance or just audition your chops.

Hum-to-Notation

Hum a melody into your phone. ESSNCE detects the pitch, cleans up any wobble, and writes the notes onto a musical staff — correct note names, durations, everything. Edit it, play it back through real instruments, or export as MIDI.

Auto-Chop

Load a loop, hit chop. ESSNCE detects the transients and splits the sample across your pads automatically. Adjust sensitivity to get fewer thick slices or more granular hits. Rearrange and you've got a new pattern in seconds.

AI-Powered Pattern Generator

Pick a genre — boom-bap, trap, house, drill, lo-fi, reggaeton, afrobeats — and hit generate. The AI suggests patterns and samples that fit your style. You get a starting point with the right swing, tempo, and groove baked in. Tweak from there or roll the dice again.

Actual Sound Design

ADSR envelopes, three filter types, bit-crush, sample rate reduction, choke groups, note repeat. Per-pad. Per-step probability, flam, and roll on the drum grid. Load CLAP plugins for third-party effects and processors. This isn't a toy with a volume knob and a reverb toggle.

Full Synthesizer

Two oscillators with saw, square, sine, and noise waveforms. Multi-mode filter (LP, HP, BP). ADSR envelope generator with velocity modulation. Dual LFOs for vibrato, filter sweeps, and rhythmic wobble. Design a bass, a lead, or a pad — all from scratch.

Piano Roll Editor

Program melodic drum tracks and basslines on a full piano roll. Draw in notes, adjust velocity per note, quantize timing. The piano roll connects to any sampler pad or synthesizer voice. Make your drums melodic and your melodies rhythmic.

Automation

Record and draw automation lanes for volume, pan, and any effect parameter. Create builds, filter sweeps, and dynamic mix changes that evolve over time. Automation locks to the timeline so your moves hit exactly where you want them.

Project Management

Auto-save runs in the background every few seconds — you never lose work even if the app crashes. Manual save, save-as, and project templates. Browse, rename, and delete projects from the project manager. .essketch files are portable — share them or back them up.

Export That Doesn't Compromise

FLAC lossless. WAV 24-bit. WAV 16-bit. MP3 at 320k. Export a single chop, a full arranged track, or MIDI from your notation. Send it wherever it needs to go — no watermarks, no quality caps.

Five Tabs. Two Drawers. Full Studio.

Five tabs in the bottom nav — COMPOSE, GRAB, SMPLR, DRUM, EDIT. The tray drawer holds NOTES, LIBRARY, and the synthesizer. Every tool is a tap or swipe away.

COMPOSE

Create + Arrange

Multi-track timeline — arrange samples, patterns, and recordings
Song arranger with drag-reorderable sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, drop, outro)
Piano roll editor for melodic drum tracks and basslines
Automation lanes for volume, pan, and effects parameters
AI-powered pattern generator and sample suggestion
Export full arrangement in FLAC, WAV, or MP3
Project management with auto-save and crash recovery

GRAB

Capture

System audio capture — sample from any app playing on your phone
Phone mic, USB mic, and MIDI controller input
Real-time pitch and chord detection while recording
Stem separation — split any recording into drums, bass, other, and vocals
Captured audio and separated stems go straight to your sampler pads

SMPLR

Sample + Perform

16 velocity-sensitive pads — position controls dynamics
Spinning reel with scrub, loop points, and particle drag to load pads
Per-pad sound designer: ADSR, LP/HP/BP filters, bit-crush, pan
Per-pad FX chain — stack and reorder effects
Auto-chop with adjustable transient sensitivity
Three time-stretching modes (OLA, Phase Vocoder, Auto)
Kit manager — save and load full pad setups instantly
Record pad performances as audio

DRUM

Sequence + Arrange

16-track, 16-step sequencer with per-step velocity
Per-step probability, flam, roll, and micro-timing
16 patterns — colour-coded, with song arranger and section labels
16 real-time effects: reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, distortion, compressor, and more
Genre pattern generator for boom-bap, trap, house, drill, lo-fi, reggaeton, afrobeats
Song arranger with drag-reorderable sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, drop, outro)
Swing control, tap tempo, count-in recording
57 factory drum sounds ready to load

EDIT

Arrange + Export

Multi-track timeline with pinch-to-zoom
Full waveform editor with selection, cursor, and zoom
Trim, cut, copy, paste, fade, normalize, reverse
Fade-in and fade-out handles with adjustable curves
Undo/redo with unlimited history
Snap grid and loop regions for tight edits
Silence trimming — automatic removal of dead air
Export individual clips or full arrangement in FLAC, WAV, or MP3

ESSYNTH

Synthesizer — Tray Drawer

Two oscillators with saw, square, sine, and noise — tune, detune, and mix
Multi-mode filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass) with key tracking
ADSR envelope with velocity modulation
Dual LFOs with multiple wave shapes and sync options
Built-in effects: reverb, delay, distortion, chorus, flanger
Play live via on-screen keyboard or route from piano roll and sequencer
Export synth patches as presets — share with other producers

NOTES

Write + Transcribe — Tray Drawer

Full notation editor with multi-voice staff
Hum-to-notation — sing a melody and it appears on the staff
Stem-to-notation — capture audio, split into stems, each stem becomes notation
Notation keyboard: pitch, duration, articulation, and dynamics rows
SFZ instrument playback — piano, strings, and more
Multi-staff support for piano (right/left hand)
Export MIDI and WAV
Send notation to pads as audio or to the editor timeline

LIB

Organise + Browse — Tray Drawer

Folder-based sample browser with structured hierarchy
Default folders: Backing Tracks, Vocals, Drums, Samples
Search and preview samples instantly
Import audio in WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, M4A, and more
Default vs project library switching
Long-press for quick actions: rename, delete, send to pad

Under The Hood

Audio Engine16-bit stereo PCM, 44.1 kHz, native Oboe low-latency

Pads16 velocity-sensitive, position-aware

Sequencer16 tracks × 16 steps × 16 patterns, per-step probability/flam/roll

Stem Separation4-stem (drums, bass, other, vocals)

NotationFull editor, hum-to-notation, stem-to-notation, MIDI/WAV export

Effects16 real-time DSP + per-pad FX chains (reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, distortion, compressor, bit-crush, filter...)

Time StretchOLA, Phase Vocoder, Auto modes

Factory Sounds57 drum samples (kicks, snares, cymbals, percussion)

InstrumentsSFZ instrument engine (piano, strings, more)

FormatsFLAC lossless, WAV 24-bit, WAV 16-bit, MP3 320kbps, MIDI

Import FormatsWAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, M4A, WMA, OPUS, 3GP, AMR

Projects.essketch — auto-save, crash recovery, portable

Android8.0+ (API 26)

Size~11 MB

ESSNCE Free Audio Production Studio for Android

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