Sampletoy 4+

Elastic Sampler/Plaything

Mazbox Limited

Designed for iPad

    • 4.4 • 17 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Sampletoy is a radical new musical instrument/plaything; part sampler, part granular synthesiser. Use it to capture sounds through the microphone, then play, loop, pitch and distort them live on the screen.

There are plenty of features under the hood, such as resonant filters, delays and envelope. You can enable "stepped" mode to play your sounds like a traditional keyboard, or keep it in "free" mode for some microtonal madness.

Once you've recorded a sound, use the main area of the screen to play it back at different pitches (up to 5 fingers at a time). You can crop the sound by dragging a selection over the waveform. The crop area is also multitouch and you can adjust the crop while playing the sound too.

The y-axis is pitch of the sound, and the x-axis is configurable to control filters or envelope.

You can record your performances on Sampletoy and send them via email within the app as a CD-quality wav file (mono or stereo)

FEATURES
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* Create your own instruments out of any sound.
* Email your performances as audio files straight from the app.
* Built-in resonant filters, delay and envelope.
* Auto-saves current recording and state and recalls it again on next launch.
* Stepped mode allows chromatic, major, minor, pentatonic and whole-tone scales to be played.
* Totally multitouch - play up to 5 notes at once.
* 44kHz/16bit - professional quality sound.
* AudioBus3 output
* Import any audio file to Sampletoy from Files, Voice memos, DropBox etc
* Open non-audio files and hear what they sound like
* Bluetooth / Airplay support
* Built-in comprehensive manual.

What’s New

Version 1.2.5

* AudioShare now supports non-ascii file names

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

KiteO ,

Nifty but doesn’t seem to sample

Rec button doesn’t seem to turn the mic on for me (it’s meant to yeah?? doesn’t record what’s playing from another app.). Mic seems to be fine in other apps. Happily however I can at least take the extra step of importing recordings from elsewhere, play around with them, record the manipulations then export them. Fun app with a creativity-friendly interface.

Developer Response ,

Hi KiteO
You might have microphone permissions turned off for sampletoy. iOS doesn’t let you record sounds from other apps unless you use something like AudioBus (which sampletoy supports) you can also load WAV files into sampletoy - find the WAV file you want to import, then press the share button and press “open in sampletoy)

iOS Simon ,

Good app!

Simple, inexpensive app but it does what it says in the description.

Dubweiser ,

Great little instrument…well worth the price

Bought on a whim as already have a few iPhone sampler type apps, but this is now my fave. Easy to get results that are different to anything you'd get thru more conventional studio tools.
Would like a file sync tool for the desktop but email works fine.
Truly creative and fun to use. Teamed up with a slightly better mic (I've a $20 job that fits in audio output) than normal iPhone mic and the results are really useable. Works fine with internal mic too of course. 5 stars now and hoping dev adds more fx and mangling tools.

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