artcode DAW

artcode DAW is a complete music production environment on one screen. Instruments, effects, recording, arrangement and export are all built in, so an empty project can become a finished track without installing anything else. There is nothing else to download. Everything works the moment you buy it. ■ A melody is enough Write the tune you can hear in your head. artcode DAW works out the chords, adds bass and drums, and builds it into a song. Draw it in the piano roll, or connect a keyboard and play it. You do not need to know any music theory. You need a melody. This runs the opposite way to most "AI songwriting": your melody leads, and artcode DAW fills in around it. It chooses chords by how they lead into one another, not bar by bar, and it can work out the key from your notes. Choose 21 styles, from pop to jazz, bossa nova and flamenco. What comes out is ordinary MIDI, so any chord you dislike can be changed. ■ Two views, one project Session is your sketchbook: a grid of short clips you trigger as ideas arrive, until the shape of the song appears. Arrangement is the timeline, where the same clips become a finished track. Move between them freely. Time signature and tempo can change partway through a song. ■ Everything you need to make sound Nine instruments - a subtractive synth, an FM synth, a wavetable synth, a dedicated bass, a drum machine, a singing-voice synth (Japanese and English), a sampler, a 16-pad drum sampler and a SoundFont (.sf2) player. Load a SoundFont from the Files app and play free acoustic pianos, strings and more. More than twenty effects: EQ (three-band and parametric), compressor, bus compressor, multiband, transient shaper, reverb, delay, granular delay, chorus, flanger, auto-pan, distortion, saturation, bitcrusher, ring modulator, beat repeat, vocoder, pitch snap (transparent correction through to hard robotic tuning), sidechain ducking, a maximizer and a spectrum analyzer. On SYNTH, FM and BASS you can breed presets into new sounds. ■ Audio that behaves Imported audio is analysed for tempo as it loads. Warp it to the project tempo, trim, retune, fade and crossfade it, or turn it into MIDI. ■ AI that runs on the device Bundled and offline. They write a melody that follows your chords, continue a drum pattern, or humanise a rigid beat. No network access. ■ Built for fingers Long-press for menus, pinch to zoom. The controls are sized to be hit with a fingertip. ■ Break chords apart Long-press a clip that holds chords and choose Arpeggio / Strum. The chords are replaced with a broken-up figure. Draw your own step sequence or strumming pattern, or start from 19 presets. The result is ordinary notes you can edit. ■ Finishing, done for you Auto mastering measures the song, places EQ, compression and a maximizer, and sets the loudness to a target such as streaming's -14 LUFS. Choose your low end, top end and attack. What it places are ordinary effects, so you can adjust them afterwards. ■ Finish it and take it with you A project saves as a single .artcode file with the audio inside it, and autosave brings you back if the app closes. Export to WAV (16 or 24-bit, or 32-bit float), MP3, per-track stems, or a standard MIDI file carrying tempo, time signature, track names and lyrics. Exports land in the Files app, ready to send anywhere. ■ What you make is yours Everything you create with artcode DAW belongs to you. Use it commercially, sell it, license it. No royalties, no credit required. The interface is in English and Japanese. No account, no online activation, no usage tracking. ■ What this version does not have (stated plainly) - VST3 plug-ins - iOS does not allow loading third-party code - AI audio generation and stem separation - they need a large extra download - MIDI hardware input and output - the iOS WebView does not support it (reading and writing MIDI files does work) If you need those, look at the Mac and Windows versions.