Koala Sampler

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In-app purchases

About this app

Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic or load your own sounds. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!

Koala’s super intuitive interface helps you make a tracks in a flash, there is no brake pedal. You can also resample the output of the app back into the input, through the effects, so the sonic possibilities are endless.

Koala's design focuses totally on making the music making progress instant, keeping you in the flow and keeping it fun, not getting bogged down by pages of parameters and micro-editing.

"Been putting that $4 koala sampler to good use lately. Undeniably great tool that puts some of these expensive beat boxes to shame. A must cop."
-- flying lotus, twitter

* Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
* Transform your voice or any other sound with 16 superb built-in fx
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import your own samples
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
* Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
* Normal/One-shot/Loop/Reverse playback of samples
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls
* Note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard

NOTE: If you’re having trouble with microphone input please turn off "OpenSL" in Koala's audio settings.

8 Built-in Microphone FX:
* More Bass
* More Treble
* Fuzz
* Robot
* Reverb
* Octave up
* Octave down
* Synthesizer


16 Built-in DJ Mix FX:
* Bit-crusher
* Pitch-shift
* Comb filter
* Ring modulator
* Reverb
* Stutter
* Gate
* Resonant High/Low Pass Filters
* Cutter
* Reverse
* Dub
* Tempo Delay
* Talkbox
* VibroFlange
* Dirty
* Compressor

Features included in SAMURAI In-App Purchase
* Pro-quality Timestretch (4 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats and Re-pitch)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* Pocket operator sync out

Ratings and reviews

Just stumbled on this app a couple weeks ago. Gotta say, it's the best sampler for android you'll ever find! I paid for the full version and paid for all the added features and if they release more features.....I'll be paying for those too! It's so intuitive I didn't even need a manual. It's so close to replacing my my entire DAW. Endless possibilities. Easy workflow. I can't get over how incredible it is. I've been creating source sounds on my PC and importing them to the app. 10X stars!!!!

Very turned off by having to pay to edit my sequence. As a brand new user I recorded a sequence and when I tried to edit it I found that I'd have to pay nearly double the price of the original app. I can understand paying for premium sounds and exotic features, but editing a sequence is a fundamental part of every music app I've ever used, except for this one. It's almost like having to pay extra to change the start and end points of a sample

I get that this app is still rather new and so far it's pretty fun to mess with.. I think it would definitely be nice to have a built in synth and it would be great to be able to select multiple pads.. to move, delete, mute, send to a buss, choke, etc. I'd also like to be able to drag and drop chops from the auto chop screen to pads. The mic directly to mixer doesn't work and some FX act funny depending on the parameters being used. I'm out of room to explain.. 500 character limit here.

What's new

You can now set the midi channel used for keyboard mode.
Other small tweaks
Fixes bugs with recording and resampling