ESSNCE is a production studio on your phone. You compose a melody, capture sound, chop it up, build drums around it, arrange the whole thing into a track, and export a finished file. That entire workflow happens across five screens.
Think of them as five rooms in a studio. You write a melody in one, capture sound in the next, sculpt it in the third, build rhythm in the fourth, and arrange everything in the last.
COMPOSE — Write melodies on a musical staff. Hum an idea and it becomes notation, or tap notes onto the staff. Your melody plays back with real instrument sounds.
GRAB — Capture audio. Sample from any app, record with your mic, or plug in a USB device. Split any captured audio into isolated stems.
SMPLR — Sculpt your sound. 64 pads across 4 banks to chop, filter, and shape samples into playable instruments.
DRUM — Build rhythm. Step sequencer and piano roll for programming beats. AI pattern generator creates genre-specific grooves.
EDIT — Arrange everything. Multi-track timeline where you place, trim, fade, stretch, and mix your clips.
You don't have to use the screens in that exact order every time. But for your first track, walking through them left to right is the clearest path from nothing to a finished piece of music.
Everything you do saves automatically as an .essketch file. Auto-save is configurable in Settings — you can adjust the interval or turn it off entirely. ESSNCE also recovers from crashes. Experiment freely — you won't lose your work.
By the end of this guide, you'll have a beat with a sampled melody loop, programmed drums, a basic song structure, and an exported audio file. About 20 minutes of hands-on time.
You know the five-screen pipeline and what you're about to build. Time to start.