ESSNCE: Beat Maker & Sampler

ESSNCE turns your phone into a full beat-making setup: sampler, drum machine, stem-splitter, and multi-track editor, in one app.

It captures audio from anything playing on your device — YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, voice notes, field recordings — and drops it onto 16 velocity-sensitive pads for chopping, pitching, and sequencing. Drag a loop in and the app finds the transients, slices on the hits, and lays the pieces across the pads in key.

SAMPLER
• 16 velocity-sensitive pads, monophonic or polyphonic
• ADSR, filters, bit crush, lo-fi, and reverse, per pad
• Mute groups and note repeat at 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32
• Reel-style loop preview with cue points and scrubbing
• Time stretch and pitch shift without chipmunk artifacts
• Chromatic mode — map any one-shot across the pads in key

DRUM MACHINE
• 16 tracks × up to 64 steps, 16 saveable patterns
• Song mode for chaining patterns into arrangements
• Per-step swing, micro-timing, and parameter locks
• Sidechain compression; live FX (Tape, Stutter, Crush, Filter)
• Built-in synthesized kicks, snares, hats, and 808s — nothing extra to download
• Beatbox a rhythm and it transcribes onto the grid

STEM SPLITTING
Vocals, drums, bass, and the rest on four faders. Runs on-device, no round-trip to a server.

EDITOR
• Trim, split, fade, reverse, normalize
• 8-track arrangement with snap-to-grid
• Auto-detected key and BPM
• Unlimited undo
• WAV export

PITCH AND CHORD DETECTION
Sing into the mic and the app names the note in real time. Play a chord on a keyboard and it names that too. Useful while you work, and while you're learning.

CAPTURE SOURCES
• System audio from any app on the device
• Phone mic
• USB microphones and audio interfaces
• MIDI instruments over USB

PLUGINS, OFFLINE, AUTO-SAVE
Hosts real studio plugins — the same ones producers use on desktop, not mobile substitutes. Works fully offline. Auto-saves every five minutes so a crash doesn't cost you a session. Tag, favorite, and search anything in your library.

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

The core tools aren't behind a subscription, a preview timer, or a sample-pack grind. Beat maker, sampler, drum machine, stem-splitter, and multi-track editor — one app, on your phone.