Dawcade

*Early access pricing — Dawcade is at an entry price while the app is still growing. As more features land, the price is expected to go up.

Dawcade is a complete music studio built for touch. Sketch a beat, jam with playful instruments, record, arrange and mix — everything runs on your device, no account, no subscription, no ads.

PLAY

15 touch surfaces, each one a different way to play: Melody, Grid, Chords, Tonnetz, Strum, Stringboard, Circle of Fifths, XY Pad, Bowed, Sketch, Bloom, Orbits, Bounce, Arc and Otomata. Every surface snaps to your chosen key and scale, so everything you play stays musical.

SOUNDS

• 27 instrument engines: analog-style and digital synths (virtual analog, FM, wavetable, vector, supersaw, phase distortion, granular, spectral, chip, noise), acoustic and electric piano, organ, strings, brass, woodwinds, guitar, bass, bell, pad and vocal

• Physical modelling and a Samplers for your own sounds

• 70+ drum kits: classic drum machines, vintage rhythm boxes, acoustic kits, hand percussion and glitch kits

• All content is bundled — everything works fully offline

BEATS

A fast groovebox-style step sequencer with variable step length and resolution, accents, scene chaining and per-pad sounds. Tap in a beat in seconds, then refine it in the editor.

RECORD & ARRANGE

• Session view with clip launching and scenes, plus a full arrangement timeline

• Record audio and MIDI, overdub, loop, punch in

• Piano roll editing, quantize, note probability, velocity tools

• Audio warping, time-stretch and transient quantize

• Full undo/redo across the whole project

MIX

• 24 effects: EQ, compressor, multiband compressor, limiter, gate, transient shaper, chorus, phaser, flanger, delays, plate and algorithmic reverb, distortion, amp cabinet, bitcrusher, auto filter, resonator, vocoder, spectral FX, beat repeat and more

• Per-track insert chains plus a master bus chain

• Automation lanes, macro controls, mixer with sends

• Export your mix as a WAV file

CONNECT

• USB and Bluetooth MIDI: play with your keyboard or controller, low-latency

• Dawcade Link: sync two devices over Wi-Fi — one leads, the other follows scenes and tempo

• Built-in metronome, count-in, swing, tap tempo

DESIGNED FOR TOUCH

A fast, focused interface that works great on phones and tablets, with special support for dual-screen handheld devices.

Dawcade saves your projects and music locally on your device. No sign-up required. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports help us improve the app — see our privacy policy for details.