Pattern-based: write patterns in the channel rack and piano roll, arrange them into a song on the playlist, mix in the mixer. Everything below is in the app today. (The interface is in Simplified Chinese.)
One row per channel: step grids for drums, the piano roll for melodies. Paint steps by dragging; 16, 32 or 64 steps per page.
Draw, select and erase tools; ⌘-drag for a marquee, right-click for batch edits.
Arrange pattern clips into a song: ⌥-drag to copy, drag the right edge to resize, marquee select, loop range.
An effect chain on every mixer track; faders, pan, mute and solo, level meters with clip latch.
Two oscillators, a filter, two envelopes and an LFO. Besides the synth there is a SoundFont player (with the GeneralUser GS bank) and a drum sampler.
The ratio is oscillator 2's pitch; the FM envelope brightens the attack.
For a wobble that moves both cutoff and wavetable, let the LFO sweep one and automation the other.
Parametric EQ, filter, delay, reverb, distortion, compressor and limiter, plus:
Sixteen steps per bar, one action per step: normal, repeat (stutter), reverse, half speed, tape stop, mute. A tape stop on the last beat before a drop is one line: ............SSSS.
Parameters that change over time. Automation inside a pattern repeats with it (that is how a dubstep wobble changes speed inside one long note); automation clips on the playlist follow the song (sweeps, fades).
mix_check only looks: per-track loudness and bands, which tracks mask each other, whether the low end is mono, song loudness against a style target. mix_assist applies the rules: reverb on sends, high-pass on non-bass tracks, kick/bass ducking, gain staging, master chain, loudness, one undo step per rule.
Only a human can say whether it sounds good: every result says so.
The same layout as FL Studio: Z–M for one octave, Q–U for the next. The app keeps the last five minutes of what you played and drops it into the piano roll in one step, or records while playing. The agent can read what you just played and build on it.
Save an instrument, an effect or a whole chain and use it in the next project. Factory presets include Wobble 1/8, Wobble 1/16, Growl (legato), Screech, 808 (slide), a dubstep bass-bus chain and a trap master chain.
M4A uses the system AAC encoder at 128, 192 or 256 kb/s and plays anywhere; MIDI writes slides as pitch bends; export the whole song, the loop, a custom range or one section.
Toy DAW working title