Emilie 8
The cure for creative block. A standalone studio for musical ideas: bass, chords, lead and pad, FM drums and a chaos engine that turns a few notes into a track idea — without a DAW, without setup.
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What it does
A band in one window
Bass, chords, lead and pad — four slots, each with its own synth, on three synth engines, plus an FM drum machine with a tape echo. Press play and it already sounds like a track.
Styles
One click fills all four slots with sounds that belong together, with a drum kit, a tempo and a beat. Save your own styles and overwrite any of them.
Twist It and Surprise Me
Lock what you love — pitch, contour, range, the way a phrase ends — and push the rest: rhythm, melody, motif. One knob decides how far.
Magic Cauldron
Up to five of sixteen ingredients — cut, echo, lift, drop — cook a captured idea into something new. Same recipe, same dish; stir for another.
Character pads
Tone, Space, Motion and Shape: drag a dot instead of turning a dozen knobs. Record the move and every loop plays it back.
Chip Mode
Any slot and the whole drum kit become a game chip: pulse, triangle and noise, a lightning arpeggio, stepped vibrato and a bit crusher.
Sixteen patterns per slot
A piano roll, a drum grid, a loop range, Next and Back, Develop Range and automation lanes for the knobs and pads.
136 ready beats
From boom bap to techno, with fills, on three FM kits. Drag a pattern onto another to copy it, or copy it across the loop range.
Straight into your DAW
Drag a slot onto a track in your DAW and it lands as a MIDI clip. Or export the whole idea as one MIDI file.
A closer look
Specifications
| Format | Standalone application |
|---|---|
| Systems | macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel) · Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit |
| Sound | 4 synth slots on 3 engines, 768 factory sounds, FM drum machine with 3 kits and 136 beats, per-slot voice, delay and reverb |
| Sequencer | 16 patterns per slot, piano roll, drum grid, loop range, automation lanes |
| Ideas | Twist It, Surprise Me, Magic Cauldron, Capture / Build, 8 factory styles |
| MIDI | MIDI keyboard and controller input, MIDI file import and export, drag-and-drop MIDI into a DAW |
| Demo | Free, no time limit. Not included: saving and opening projects, MIDI export and drag, saving your own presets and styles |
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