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 the chipmunk artefacts
• 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 synthesised 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, normalise
• 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, favourite and search anything in your library.

ESSNCE is built with UK drill, garage, grime, jungle and dnb, bassline and Afroswing producers in mind. It also fits lo-fi, hip hop, afrobeats and amapiano workflows — along with singers and rappers writing to their own beats, DJs cutting edits, 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.