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 track 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 process 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
* Load your own samples
* Choose from one of 250 built-in sounds
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Direct export to Ableton Live Set
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import samples from the Files app or even from videos
* 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
* 6 Choke groups
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls and note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* AUv3 compatible - use in GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis etc etc
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard, map the effects to knobs
* Jam with others over WiFi with Ableton Link
* Free copy of Ableton Live Lite included
* AudioShare compatible
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Set your own background image and choose from a growing list of background visual FX
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 (5 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats, Re-pitch and Cyclic)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* 3 Band EQ
* Pocket operator sync out
* Quokka Synth - powerhouse polyphonic synthesizer
* MIDI Out - control external MIDI hardware with Koala's sequencer
* Chopper - multimodal sample chopping instrument
Features included in MIXER In-App Purchase
* Mix your beats professionally with a 4 channel mixer + main bus
* Route any sample to any channel
* Mute/solo, faders and accurate metering on every channel
* 5 effect slots per channel
* 29 high-quality effects - compressors, filters, phasers and more, with new effects to come
* Host AUv3 plugins - both audio effects and instruments
Great great app. Period.One thing really bothers me. If you buy an app and you like it a lot, it's cool to communicate that to others by rating it. If an update has bugs, you DONT RATE IT AGAIN WITH A BAD RATING TO THREATEN THE DEVELOPER. You email the guy or girl to let him know. You know the app is good so why screw up the apps sales because of a bug that will get fixed. Ratings are not there to communicate with the developer. The thing that really shows that the people who do that do not care about anyone but themselves, is that they never change their bad rating. So the promise of hanging thé rating if the bug is fixed is never honoured. Koala is fantastic. Every app has bugs sometimes. If every time a bug appeared everyone would give a bad rating, every app would have lousy ratings. Most people realize this so it's not a big problem. It's only bad when one if those ignorant people buy a great app.
Fun, easy and portable
Kutcorners
At first I didn’t use the app despite rave reviews from friends. I was on a plane ride with nothing to do opened up and made 3 ideas quickly learning how to use it. I’ve played with my niece and nephew with it and everyone loves it’s simple and fun interface. Thank you
Oh babyyyyy
tturnippp
I absolutely adore this app, and it only gets reinforced every time an update gets pushed. I started using this app probably around 5 years ago and already loved it, but since then they’ve pushed out a synth, Stem splitter, AU plugin integration, and a steady stream of new bus effects including a vocoder. (I am not sure how much of this is in the free version but like it’s 5 bucks with no subscription bs)Today, I opened the app to find a new button for an arpeggiator, and my body and spirit were forcibly compelled to write this review. This is literally my daily interface with music making and I really doubt it will ever stop being that. Genuinely, thank you so much for this amazing app, please keep up the great work.
Everything great except
idoceostinks
The UI
Developer Response
Hi, thanks for the review! Pls let me know what you struggle with about the UI - I’m all for making improvements - get in touch at koalasampler.com/contact
- Automation for bus effects, mixer channels and plug-in synths and effects
- New "Same pad mapping for all banks" option in MIDI settings - map the 16 pads once and the selected bank decides which pads your notes play. The bank selector can be MIDI mapped too. Switch it off and each of the 64 pads keeps its own mapping, as before
- MIDI map mode can now be toggled from the QWERTY keyboard (default key `;`) or from a mapped MIDI control
- iPhone Duo support
- Looper recording (swipe down on a pad) now starts and stops cleanly on the bar line, including when you stop just after the bar
- Pad to MIDI note mapping is now a fixed 4x4 layout whatever the window shape, so a sequence recorded with the AUv3 open in portrait plays back on the right pads once the window is closed
- Fixed grid keyboard getting stuck after a scale change near the end of the range
- Appending sequences now copies their parameter automation too
Version 2.0.15
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Information
Seller
Mazbox Limited
Size
62.5 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
