Polaris - Pocket Music Maker

Meteaure Studios

About this app

Polaris is an intuitive music-making app designed to help you turn your musical ideas into reality. By stripping away the complexity of traditional desktop software and DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), it provides a streamlined space to sketch, develop, and refine your work. Whether you are crafting a drum beat or a melodic electronic arrangement, Polaris is built to keep your creativity flowing.

--- Capture ideas instantly ---

The interface is designed to be accessible yet powerful. Use the modern, grid-based step sequencer to lay down drums, basslines, and melodies in seconds. With a design philosophy inspired by classic hardware, you can skip the setup time and get straight to the fun part: making music.

--- Powerful sequencing ---

Don't let the simple interface fool you, Polaris offers deep creative possibilities.

• Six tracks: combine different sounds to build complete patterns
• Step modulation: add movement by automating volume, cutoff, decay, and pitch on a per-step basis
• Advanced rhythm: use per-track rate control, swing, and trig conditions to keep your sequences fresh
• Extended patterns: chain up to 8 grids for sequences up to 128 steps

--- Deep sound design ---

Sculpt your own unique sound using a flexible dual-engine architecture.

• Sample engine: use 75 factory samples or import your own for limitless exploration
• Synth engine: create lush pads, deep bass, and plucky leads with the dual-oscillator synthesizer
• Shape your tone: every track features its own multimode filter and distortion unit

--- Mix, process, export ---

Fine-tune your project with the built-in mixing console. Add space using dedicated reverb and delay sends. When you are ready, capture your performance in real-time with the built-in recorder. Your ideas are exported as perfectly cut audio loops, ready for any other music software.

Download Polaris today and start making music whenever inspiration strikes.

Ratings and reviews

Super easy to lay down ideas. Works great, no drops of any kind. The sound engine in particular is amazing. Use with headphones for best results. Import of files is fantastic. ( If on android go to the dcim file and you'll find your imports. ). Would love more tracks as well as recording to individual steps for more variation. Otherwise this is fantastic.

It's incredibly easy to dive in, but able to create surprisingly complex rhythms once you get the hang of step triggers and modulations. It's certainly not an all-in-one music creation package, nor is it trying to be, but it is a great way to let your creativity flow and generate loops without getting distracted by a hundred different options. Edit: you can now export audio, which was my main complaint earlier, though it would be nice if you could do it as stems.

If you want to crank out beat patterns, then this is your app. Has basic filtering and envelopes. There is even modulation but at the very core it is a sequencer. It has a synth engine but it is very limited. You can change the pitch of a note and even modulate is so i guess you can make melodies but it is not easy work like midi for example. I gave it 3 stars because I expected it to be a music workstation but it isnt a fully fledged DAW. I would call this a beat machine. And it does that well.

What’s new

* New: Keyboard & Scales*
Create melodic lines easily with the new keyboard component, letting you quickly add notes to the sequencer. Use scales to keep every note in tune, with presets and snap-to-scale support.

*New: Stems Export*
Export individual audio files for each track, ready to use in your favorite DAW.

*Improvements*
- Reworked layout for large-screen devices
- Better synth engine quality on high frequencies