Overview

Features & Capabilities

Stuck for ideas? MIDI Motif Maker generates a finished melody in one tap — then lets you shape, play, and export it as MIDI. No AI, no cloud, no subscription.

Built for songwriters, producers, and music students, it turns a blank screen into a usable musical idea in seconds on iPhone, on iPad, and as an AUv3 MIDI plugin right inside your favourite music app.

GENERATE • One-tap melody generation — a constraint solver plus a Markov engine • Best-of randomization: auditions multiple candidates and keeps the most musical one • Many built-in motifs to remix across classical, cinematic, jazz, acid-303, rock riffs, ostinatos, and pop themes

SHAPE & REMIX • 15 scale modes (major, minor, Dorian, blues, pentatonic and more) with one-tap key transpose • 9 song-form templates (sentence, period, ternary, rondo, bar form, theme & variations…) expanded into labelled sections • 15 development techniques — inversion, retrograde, augmentation, sequence, fragmentation and more • Slice & remix any idea with 6 intelligent strategies

LEARN • Built-in music-theory references — chord charts, scale libraries, and interval guides

AUv3 PLUGIN — PLAY IT INSIDE YOUR DAW • Run MIDI Motif Maker as an AUv3 MIDI plugin inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Drambo, Logic Pro for iPad, and other AUv3 hosts

SEND & EXPORT • Export standard MIDI files (.mid) and share to Files, AirDrop, GarageBand, or any MIDI app • Stream MIDI live over CoreMIDI to hardware synths and to other iOS music apps via a built-in virtual MIDI source • Network MIDI and Bluetooth MIDI supported • Keeps playing and sending while in the background

PRIVATE & OFFLINE — MADE BY YOU, NOT BY AI • No generative AI and no machine-learning models — melodies come from music theory and classic algorithms running on your device • Nothing is trained on other artists' music • No internet, no cloud, no account — works fully offline • No tracking, no data collection — your ideas never leave your iPhone • One-time purchase. No subscription.

No two ideas the same.

iPhone & iPad • iOS 17+

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Alexandru George Tanasa
Rating:
3.00
(2)
0.70
Version:
2.2.1 Last updated: 2026-08-20
Version code:
890069169
Creation date:
2026-03-25
Compatible devices:
Size:
200.65MB
Price:
5.99
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Data ingested on:
2026-08-31
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Developed by:
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User Reviews

It’s got a decent amount of compositional options you can have the engine apply to a motif in order to change it. I was able to get some pretty musical phrases out of it. While it has depth, it also feels limited in a way that shortcuts its potential. So far as I could figure out, you can’t create your own scales or chord progressions in order to affect the motif generation. You also can’t create your own motifs, which I think is a missed opportunity. You can generate or pick starting motifs from the library, but you can’t import or create ones in a piano roll or staff so that you can have the engine change them. Improvements I'd like to see to make this a truly top notch app: * Let the user import, categorize, and save their own motifs to the library-- import midi and musicxml files, or allow creation on a piano roll. * Let the user pick which motifs the Markov function learns from (including imported motifs) * Let the user define their own time signature beyond the 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 and 6/8 choices currently available. * Add more complete options for Feel. Right now it's very limited to straight 16ths, 32, 8T and 16th shuffle. Why not let the user choose from a wide variety like most daws do. Right now it's missing : 1/4T, 1/8, 1/8D, 1/16T, 1/16D 1/32T, 1/64 * Let the user create and add their own song form templates.
by Al*****, 2026-08-11

Plz! ARP trap Atl(Atlanta) Pluck motif. 16t/32t . Plz— Electro House/Dubstep<-(new)…..Respect Author.
by In*****, 2026-08-10
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