A music tracker for iPhone & iPad
A serious music production system with the soul of a 90’s video game.
Eight tracks, a D-pad and two buttons, no menus. Every operation is a chord you can play with your thumbs — and the whole manual is inside the app.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · Universal, one app
What using it looks like
Screens are dark, paper is light. These are the real thing — the same dark green screen and grey plastic shell, on every page of the app.
What it does
No feature here is a promise. All of it is true of the shipping app.
Phrases of sixteen rows, chains of phrases, and a song made of chains. Write a bassline once, place it four times at different transposes, change it later and every placement changes. Phrases can be shorter than sixteen rows, so 6/8 is as easy as 4/4.
A synth voice per track — saw, pulse with PWM, triangle, sine — through a resonant filter and an envelope. Or a sample, played whole or sliced. Wavetables. A chip voice. Per-tick tables for automation that runs faster than a row.
Import from anywhere on the phone or record straight into a slot from the microphone; MP3, AAC, M4A, AIFF and WAV are converted on the way in. Set a sample’s root note and fine tune so the keyboard tracks it. Split a drum loop into a sample per cut.
Ten lanes on one screen — eight tracks and two send buses — with level, pan, mute and solo, and three effect slots each: filter, bitcrush and a tempo-synced delay. See the desk as numbers or as ten live traces.
A performance pad wires any two parameters to an X and a Y axis and moves every track at once. A grid of twelve pads: six punch-in effects (octave down, tape slow, stutter, bitcrush, high pass, low pass), held rather than latched, and six one-shot samples.
A radar sweep that reads the mix by frequency, a scope on the output, and six palettes.
MIDI in and out with clock. A Bluetooth game controller, mapped button by button. A count-in. A scale lock that keeps the note column inside a key. Export the whole arrangement to a WAV. Songs, samples and exports all live in the Files app.
Why it feels different
Every operation is a chord you can play with your thumbs, so your hands learn it the way they learn an instrument. The whole manual is inside the app.
The app contains no networking code at all. It collects nothing. Everything you make is a file you own on your phone.
