You know the full workflow now. Here are the doors you haven't opened yet.
Split a song into stems
Capture a song in the Grab, then tap Stem Separate. ESSNCE pulls it into four layers — drums, bass, other instruments, and vocals. Load the drums onto a pad, the bassline onto another. You've just built a kit from one recording.
Hum a melody into notation
Open NOTES and tap HUM. Sing or whistle a melody. The app detects your pitch, smooths out any wobble, and writes it onto a musical staff. Edit the notes, play them back with a piano sound, or export as MIDI.
Bit-crush your samples
Open the sound designer on a pad. Set bit-crush to 8-bit and stack a low-pass filter on top. Your clean sample now sounds like it was pulled off a dusty record. Classic lo-fi move.
Longer patterns
In ADV mode, change pattern length to 32 or 64 steps. Twice or four times the bars — room for hi-hat rolls, fill variations, and evolving grooves that don't repeat every bar.
Arrange a full song
Toggle SONG mode in the drum machine. Drag pattern blocks into a timeline — INTRO, VERSE, CHORUS, BRIDGE, OUTRO. The sequencer plays through the chain. Build a full track structure without reprogramming a single step.
Resample your own beat
In DRUM → ADV → PRO, tap RESAMPLE. Play your beat. Stop. You've bounced the whole drum mix to a new sample. Load it in SMPLR and chop your own drums. It's recursive and it sounds incredible.
Sidechain pump
Enable SIDECHAIN in the PRO panel and set the source to your kick. Everything else ducks when the kick hits — the pumping feel you hear in house and EDM. Subtle amounts go a long way.
Punch-in FX
Hold CRUSH, STUTTER, FILTER, or TAPE in the PRO panel while your beat plays. The effect applies only while you hold it. Release and it's gone. Use this for transitions or live performance moments.
Make your drums feel human
Long-press any active step on the drum grid. Set its probability to 70% — it only fires seven times out of ten. Add a flam to your snare. Nudge the hi-hat's micro-timing back 10ms. Your beat breathes now.
Save and switch kits
Set up all 16 pads exactly how you want them — samples, volumes, effects, ADSR settings. Save it as a kit. Now build a second kit for the next song. Switch between them in under a second from the Kit Manager.
Try a different genre
Go back to the pattern generator and pick something you've never made before. Afrobeats and reggaeton have completely different rhythmic DNA from boom-bap. The generator handles the conventions — you handle the flavour.
Chain effects per pad
Open the FX Chain Editor from any pad's sound designer. Stack reverb into delay, distortion into filter — the order matters. Reverb before distortion sounds completely different from distortion before reverb.
There is no wrong way to use ESSNCE. The six screens are there when you need them, in the order you need them. Everything from here is about developing taste and building muscle memory — and that only comes from making more tracks.
When you need the full reference — every parameter, every option, every hidden feature — the How to Use guide has it all.