VU202 is a performance-focused sampler for iPhone and iPad, built for fast sound design, pattern creation, and hands-on beat making.
Import your own samples or unlock included drumkits, record directly into pads, or resample processed sounds to create new layers and textures. Shape every sound with trim, attack and decay editing, pitch control, reverse playback, loop modes, trigger or gate playback, and multiple effect stages.
Build rhythms in Pattern Mode, switch between patterns instantly, and arrange full ideas in Song Mode. Push grooves further with per-step nudge timing, quick pattern tools like rename, duplicate, erase, and double, and fast pad and bank actions including mute and solo.
Use pad effects for detailed sound design, then process groups and the full mix with bank and master FX. Bounce effected sounds into new samples, export full mixes or stems, and keep building without breaking your flow.
Make the instrument your own with UI customization, including background images, opacity control, and editable interface colors.
Features:
Import, record, and resample audio directly into pads
Trim samples and edit attack, decay, and release shape
Use trigger or gate playback per pad
Create patterns, duplicate them, erase them, rename them, and double their length
Add per-step nudge timing for looser, off-grid grooves
Arrange full song chains in Song Mode
Use pad, bank, and master effects
Mute and solo pads or full banks for fast performance control
Export projects as WAV or stems
Save projects and continue where you left off
Customize the look of VU202 with colors and background images
Use zoom support for a more comfortable editing view
VU202 is made for drums, chops, textures, and fast musical sketches, with a workflow that stays direct, creative, and playable.
First the nostalgia hits you (er, me) like a ton of bricks .. but then you realize that the now-primitive devices VU202 is modeled after had everything Right and, the iOS iteration is an idealized version: so fun, so fast and so flexible (fluid access to your own sample libraries and the all-mint IAP packs) with Update improvements lifting the app ever higher. The faithful limitations are the strength here: true to the original workflow and to me one of the most satisfying ways to make beats.
Great app true to the original
Adjkydv
This app reminds me of being in high school trying to make beats with anything we could get our hands on! It sounds like a 90's beat tape right out the gate. I do wish it supported background audio so I wouldn't have to have it distilled for it to play. When audio goes through Bluetooth it degrades the sound like it's a phone call. That's weird. I'm not sure if purchases on my iPhone are not conveying to my iPad by design or of this is a glitch, but I'd rather not buy two of everything. I love this app and plan to use it heavily among my other tools.
Loving this sampler
Elo The Source
I have a lot of sampler apps and hardware ones this one is different with a cool smooth approach. Please make sure the app has a layout for iPad users I am on the iPad Pro 5 it would be nice to have a option for full screen. A cool feature would be nice if we had global master tuning options. Please keep up the great work I am a bata tester also so I am in the loop.
Hardware done right!
T.j.V.
I keep going to VU202 for quick and simple beat making right now! I have several other apps that do similar things, but a omething about the simplicity of a hardware box converted to software just feels different when it’s done right. VU202 is done right!
New button on steps sequencer - KEY. It gives possibility to change key of the sample in each step. Now you can build more complex melodies, baselines etc.
Version 1.6.3
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Information
Seller
Dariusz Chynek
Size
163.1 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.
