You know the full workflow now. Here are the doors you haven't opened yet.
Split a song into stems
Capture a song in the Grab, then tap Stem Separate. ESSNCE pulls it into four layers — drums, bass, other instruments, and vocals. Per-stem volume sliders (0–150%) let you fine-tune each layer, and A/B comparison lets you hear the original against your mix. Load the drums onto a pad, the bassline onto another. You've just built a kit from one recording — all AI-powered, all on-device.
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Hum a melody into notation
ESSNCE gives you two ways to capture melody ideas. In the Compose screen, whistle or sing a short phrase and it becomes notation on a staff — quick sketches for later. In the Notes screen, record longer vocal takes with real-time pitch transcription. Both let you edit notes, play back with a piano sound, or export as MIDI.
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Compose screen
The Compose tab is a scratch pad for melodies. Write on a musical staff with a notation keyboard at the bottom. Hum an idea and it becomes notation. Load MIDI files. Export as audio or send your melody straight to a sampler pad, a drum track, or the editor timeline.
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Piano roll
The drum screen has a piano roll mode for melodic tracks. Draw notes on a piano-key grid, pick a scale to stay in key, and build basslines or synth melodies right alongside your drum patterns.
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Synthesiser — Essynth
ESSNCE has a full synthesizer called Essynth. Browse preset sounds by category (bass, lead, pad, keys) or design your own from scratch. Two oscillators, a filter, dual envelopes, dual LFOs, and a mod matrix. The four macro knobs — SHAPE, MOVE, BODY, AIR — let you tweak sounds fast. Use synth voices anywhere: on sampler pads, in drum tracks, or on the staff.
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Bit-crush your samples
Open the sound designer on a pad. Set bit-crush to 8-bit and stack a low-pass filter on top. Your clean sample now sounds like it was pulled off a dusty record. Classic lo-fi move.
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Longer patterns
In the drum screen's pattern controls, change pattern length to 32 or 64 steps. Twice or four times the bars — room for hi-hat rolls, fill variations, and evolving grooves that don't repeat every bar.
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Arrange a full song
Toggle SONG mode in the drum machine. Drag pattern blocks into a timeline — INTRO, VERSE, CHORUS, BRIDGE, OUTRO. The sequencer plays through the chain. Build a full track structure without reprogramming a single step.
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Resample your own beat
Use the context bar to route your drum mix back into a new sample. Tap the resample icon, play your beat, then stop. You've bounced the whole drum mix to a new sample. Load it in SMPLR and chop your own drums. It's recursive and it sounds incredible.
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Sidechain pump
Enable SIDECHAIN in the tools panel and set the source to your kick. Everything else ducks when the kick hits — the pumping feel you hear in house and EDM. Subtle amounts go a long way.
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Punch-in FX
Hold CRUSH, STUTTER, FILTER, or TAPE in the punch-FX strip while your beat plays. The effect applies only while you hold it. Release and it's gone. Use this for transitions or live performance moments.
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Make your drums feel human
Long-press any active step on the drum grid. Set its probability to 70% — it only fires seven times out of ten. Add a flam to your snare. Nudge the hi-hat's micro-timing back 10ms. Your beat breathes now. Use humanise presets for instant feel, copy the groove from any existing pattern, or set different time signatures per track with polymeter.
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Save and switch kits
Set up all 16 pads exactly how you want them — samples, volumes, effects, ADSR settings. Save it as a kit (.ekit file). Now build a second kit for the next song. Switch between them in under a second from the Kit Manager.
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Try a different genre
Go back to the pattern generator and pick something you've never made before. Afrobeats and reggaeton have completely different rhythmic DNA from boom-bap. The generator handles the conventions — you handle the flavour.
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Chain effects per pad
Open the FX Chain Editor from any pad's sound designer. Stack reverb into delay, distortion into filter — the order matters. Reverb before distortion sounds completely different from distortion before reverb.
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Third-party plugins
Load CLAP format effect plugins into ESSNCE. Import them from the Plugin Manager in the tray drawer and they appear in the FX chain browser alongside the built-in effects. Same workflow, endless new sounds.
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Settings
ESSNCE has extensive settings to customise your workflow. Auto-save interval, theme (dark or light), haptic feedback intensity, MIDI configuration, audio output routing, language, and more. Access them from the tray drawer.
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There is no wrong way to use ESSNCE. Every screen is there when you need it, in the order you need it. Everything from here is about developing taste and building muscle memory — and that only comes from making more tracks.
When you need the full reference — every parameter, every option, every hidden feature — the How to Use guide has it all.