Stuck for ideas? MIDI Motif Maker generates a finished melody in one tap — then lets you shape, play, and export it as MIDI. No AI, no cloud, no subscription.
Built for songwriters, producers, and music students, it turns a blank screen into a usable musical idea in seconds on iPhone, on iPad, and as an AUv3 MIDI plugin right inside your favourite music app.
GENERATE
• One-tap melody generation — a constraint solver plus a Markov engine
• Best-of randomization: auditions multiple candidates and keeps the most musical one
• Many built-in motifs to remix across classical, cinematic, jazz, acid-303, rock riffs, ostinatos, and pop themes
SHAPE & REMIX
• 15 scale modes (major, minor, Dorian, blues, pentatonic and more) with one-tap key transpose
• 9 song-form templates (sentence, period, ternary, rondo, bar form, theme & variations…) expanded into labelled sections
• 15 development techniques — inversion, retrograde, augmentation, sequence, fragmentation and more
• Slice & remix any idea with 6 intelligent strategies
LEARN
• Built-in music-theory references — chord charts, scale libraries, and interval guides
AUv3 PLUGIN — PLAY IT INSIDE YOUR DAW
• Run MIDI Motif Maker as an AUv3 MIDI plugin inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Drambo, Logic Pro for iPad, and other AUv3 hosts
SEND & EXPORT
• Export standard MIDI files (.mid) and share to Files, AirDrop, GarageBand, or any MIDI app
• Stream MIDI live over CoreMIDI to hardware synths and to other iOS music apps via a built-in virtual MIDI source
• Network MIDI and Bluetooth MIDI supported
• Keeps playing and sending while in the background
PRIVATE & OFFLINE — MADE BY YOU, NOT BY AI
• No generative AI and no machine-learning models — melodies come from music theory and classic algorithms running on your device
• Nothing is trained on other artists' music
• No internet, no cloud, no account — works fully offline
• No tracking, no data collection — your ideas never leave your iPhone
• One-time purchase. No subscription.
No two ideas the same.
iPhone & iPad • iOS 17+
It’s got a decent amount of compositional options you can have the engine apply to a motif in order to change it. I was able to get some pretty musical phrases out of it.While it has depth, it also feels limited in a way that shortcuts its potential. So far as I could figure out, you can’t create your own scales or chord progressions in order to affect the motif generation. You also can’t create your own motifs, which I think is a missed opportunity. You can generate or pick starting motifs from the library, but you can’t import or create ones in a piano roll or staff so that you can have the engine change them.Improvements I'd like to see to make this a truly top notch app:* Let the user import, categorize, and save their own motifs to the library-- import midi and musicxml files, or allow creation on a piano roll.* Let the user pick which motifs the Markov function learns from (including imported motifs)* Let the user define their own time signature beyond the 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 and 6/8 choices currently available.* Add more complete options for Feel. Right now it's very limited to straight 16ths, 32, 8T and 16th shuffle. Why not let the user choose from a wide variety like most daws do. Right now it's missing : 1/4T, 1/8, 1/8D, 1/16T, 1/16D 1/32T, 1/64* Let the user create and add their own song form templates.
Flow
72flow
The application is good, but there are a lot of buttons, and the tempo is not quite synchronized, as if you have to spend half a day to put it in the beat, it's very difficult, adapt the button less, the goal is the motive and theory, and there you can edit it in midi in Daw. I wish you good luck because already ia offers this application as a trap generator of melodies ) I would like more ambient melancholic motifs, and cloud rap foggy pads. I will be grateful if you implement it. Because I see raging at this application. And I would also like the adaptation in zenbeats as auv3 picture of the plugin is not complete, on the iPhone. The times of mobile Daw are not the corner)) I wish you good luck in development, the easier the better. !!!! 2026
Not ready for prime time t
NeesyKC
This app is difficult to understand and there is no manual, changing the settings doesn't change the melody most of the time. Not impressed with this.
Developer Response
Thank you for the honest review! Please check out the latest version—we’ve fixed several issues, added a dot on the Develop button when changes are pending, and included a full Help manual plus a short first-launch guide. We’d really appreciate it if you gave it another try!
Scrub - drag sideways on the preview to move the start of the motif.
Bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.3.0
The developer, Alexandru George Tanasa, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Alexandru George Tanasa
Size
210.8 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
