Flip Sampler

Suture Sound Inc.

About this app

Flip is a sample-based mobile music studio that was designed for a fast and intuitive work flow. Import your own sounds, or record sounds directly with your device's microphone. As soon as you record a sound it’s available to be played on drum pads as well as being mapped across a keyboard. Sounds can be subtly shaped or entirely transformed using the built-in effects and easy-to-use editing tools.

You can record a quantized or unquantized performance on the pads or keyboard. There is also a full piano roll where you can enter and edit notes and velocities.

Record knob movements or draw automation by hand to bring even more life to your sounds. Every automation lane can also have its own independent length, for polymetric and generative music possibilities.

Create up to 16 different sections for your song and drag and drop them into any order to create your arrangement.

Mixing and mastering tools allow you to finish a full track without ever leaving your phone. You can export your full track, or hit the tape icon and record the live output of the app while you tweak anything on the fly. Both options allow you to capture individual track stems as well!

A performance page lets you trigger your patterns live while controlling a global filter, assignable pitch bends and reverb sends, and a random fill generator.

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Flip can play up to 144 samples at a time, so it's a very CPU-intensive app. We recommend new devices and Android 10 or higher to really have fun with the app.

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Features:

- 9 track sampler
- 4 effects per track: Delay, Filter, Chorus, Bitcrush
- Graphic EQ per track
- Monophonic or up to 16-note polyphonic playback per sample
- Adjustable pitch, volume, playback direction, sample start and stop points
- 19 automatable parameters per track
- Independent lengths for each automation lane
- Automation can be recorded via knob movements or drawn by hand
- Drum pad and keyboard input
- Full piano roll with 10 octaves, note velocity, editing tools
- Randomization over sample selection for quick inspiration
- Randomization over note position to create surprising variations
- Drag-and-drop song arrangement page
- Global reverb with individual track sends
- Mixing and mastering tools
- Powerful performance features for creating instant fills, pitch shifts, reverb sends, and global low or high pass filtering
- Export full track and stems
- Live recording of performances
- Metronome with tap tempo and swing/shuffle
- Undo and redo

UPDATE 1.4.0
- New Sample Looper with forward & both (ping pong) direction
- Ableton Link sync support

Ratings and reviews

I like being able to turn my voice into drums and pads. I think the quantization for step sequencing needs work because it seems to be restricted to the quarter notes though I'm trying to find how to quantize it to 1/8, 1/16, and 1/32 notes, and perhaps 1/12, 1/24, and 1/48 notes but those aren't as necessary as eighth, sixteenth, and thirty-second notes. Also, I'd like to have an option to remember the previous note length. Still a nice companion for FL Studio Mobile and Koala Sampler.

I had issues with this app in the past and gave it a second shot only to be reminded why I stopped using it. There are multiple bugs that are so infuriating with no help found online. Sample instances self duplicate and appear in random notes on piano roll and come back after deleting. Sample instances become inaudible regardless of volume (not solo'd or muted). It is the most frustrating thing to use and have not been able to make a track without running into a bug that makes it unusable.

Best DAW for custom sampling on the go by far; well worth the purchase for beatboxing alone let alone the fact that it's powerful enough to be a full DAW. the ability to fully customize the UI is also amazing. My one and only gripe is that the app fails to gracefully switch to unfolded state for my OnePlus Open. I have to forcefully close the app and relaunch it any time I fold or unfold the phone.

What’s new

- Automation: Increased the quantized resolution size to 1/16 notes

- Bugfix: Loop Env state wasn’t stored

- Bugfix: Q (Quantize) parameter in Automation wasn’t stored
- Improved Welcome screen