ESSNCE: Beat Maker & Sampler

Essnce Labs

About this app

No ads. Not one. We loathe them. (If you love Temu ads, feel free to submit a feature request.) You don't need an account either.

Essnce works offline. It's built like an instrument you pick up when you've got a bit of down time, on a train, on a bus, or bored on the couch.

There's too much to list, but the important bits live on five screens.

COMPOSE
Write music on a staff and hear it back in a real instrument voice.
• Tap notes onto a staff; input from piano keys, a guitar fretboard, drum pads, or percussion
• Around 30 instrument voices for playback and notation
• Chords, rests, accidentals, dynamics, slurs, ties, ornaments, and repeats
• Per-note editing: pitch, length, accent, glide, pitch bend
• Key signature, tempo, time signature, and a metronome
• Record from a MIDI keyboard, step or live, over USB or Bluetooth
• Import and export MIDI files
• Export as audio to a Sampler pad, a Drum track, Arrange, your library, or a file

GRAB
Capture sound from anywhere, and pull finished tracks apart into stems on the phone.
• Capture system audio, the mic, a USB mic, or MIDI input
• Live tuner and chord detection while you record
• Auto-detected key, tempo, and chords you can set as the project reference
• Split a song into vocals, drums, bass, and other, entirely on-device
• Preview, level, and A/B the stems against the original mix
• AI stem cleanup that flags problems and suggests fixes you approve
• Send a grab or any stem to a pad, your library, or a note

SAMPLER
A pad sampler that also builds fully playable instruments.
• 16 pads across 4 banks, so 64 sounds
• Record, import, or chop samples; slice a break across the pads
• Play modes: one-shot, gate, sustain, latched loop, with choke groups and mute/solo
• Time stretch with pitch preserved; loops that follow the project tempo
• Per-pad shaping: pitch, resonant filter, ADSR, bit crush, sample-rate reduction, reverse
• Instrument Voice: turn a sample into a keyboard instrument with velocity layers, a synth filter and envelope, and full MIDI expression
• Export your instruments as SFZ or Decent Sampler for desktop DAWs
• Save and load kits; Perform mode plays a loop in live, quantized, with swing

DRUM & ROLL
A step sequencer with a built-in piano roll and proper groove tools.
• Up to 16 tracks by 64 steps, with per-step velocity and accents
• Per-track polymeter, swing, and role-aware humanize
• Lift the groove off one track and paste the feel onto another
• 16-pattern bank, plus Song mode to chain patterns into a full track
• Roll: a piano roll for melodies and chords, with key and scale lock
• GEN: AI builds a pattern from your own samples in any genre, and still works offline from built-in templates
• Beatbox a rhythm into the mic and have it written out as steps
• Per-track FX and EQ, reverb and delay sends, master FX

ARRANGE
A multi-track timeline for turning your pieces into a finished song.
• Place audio clips, drum patterns, and piano-roll parts on tracks
• Non-destructive editing: move, trim, fade, split, and set gain per clip
• Warp any clip to the project tempo with its pitch preserved
• Snap to bars, beats, or triplets, with zoom and multi-clip selection
• Per-track mixer: volume, pan, FX chains, and reverb/delay sends
• Automation you can record live or draw by hand
• Export the mix with every effect and send printed in
• A focused clip editor: trim, transient-slice into the sampler, normalize, reverse

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

The core tools aren't behind a subscription, a preview timer, or a sample-pack grind. Five screens, one app, on your phone.

Ratings and reviews

app looks promising, but experiencing some glitches on my end. if they get the glitches worked out, 5/5 ⭐.

holly molly this app... is Amazing!!! wish I'd stumble upon it sooner, great job 👍

oh my goodness this is it!! theres a new titan in the music production game and damn you guys are bringing it strong!! this is literally what android was missing.. this beat repeat sampler... mpc workflow but modern ui and super intuitive its on par with ipad apps imo and its what the games been missing thank you so much for this dev. youre contribution to production on android is hereby herald! long live this dev. if anyone serious about music production get this app. yes its THAT type of app.

What’s new

Tell Emely how you work once — she remembers it every session.

• Your instructions: a sound brief for your music, plus one per track, saved in the project.
• She writes it for you: ten plain questions, no jargon.
• She now says when something needs an account.
• Phrygian on the piano roll.