Best Friend is the unrivaled companion app for Teenage Engineering EP-Series Samplers. Connect your EP-133, EP-40, or EP-1320 via USB-C to manage your hardware, upload and edit new files, and see your pad settings.
Best Friend is an extended display and feature augmentation app for the physical EP-133, EP-40, or EP-1320. Connecting to one of these is REQUIRED for the app to function. Use a USB-C to USB-C cable. Lightning iPhones and iPads can connect with USB-IF certified USB-A to USB-C cable and a MFi-certified Lightning to USB adapter.
Scenes:
- See all notes across all banks in a Scene or Song
- See Fader FX and automation lanes for each bank
- Export REAL audio stems of every individual pad from your EP
- Navigate through the Scene timeline with automatic playhead following
Bounce and Export Audio Stems:
- Export REAL audio stems from the hardware WITHOUT AI separation for any Scene or Song
- Choose from every individual pads (all 48), group mixdowns, or stereo mixdowns
- Fader automation is included in the export
- Export MIDI data from a Scene or Song
- Bring your bounces into your DAW of choice for mixing
MIDI Controller:
- Build rich chords with a button. Pick major, minor, suspended, or diminished triads then add a 6th, 7th, or 9th for flavour
- Play the velocity-sensitive keyboard
- Arpeggiator with 4 modes, 6 rates, and 3 octaves synced to the hardware clock
- Configure your own custom chords to any of the Chord or Extension buttons
- Split each key into 1-3 zones for playing chords in alternate positions
- Add pitch bends or modulation to any chord
Sample Editing:
- Extract stems (drum, bass, vocal, guitar, and other instrument) from your samples
- Build and edit multi-samples on the EP-1320 or EP-40
- Use Repitch to reduce the file size
- Permanent cropping
- Increase volume with normalize
- Reverse playback
- Convert stereo to mono
- Change sample rate
- Apply effects: 3-band EQ; compression; distortion and saturation; octaver; phaser; chorus; tremolo; delay; and reverb
- Automatically detect and set the key
- Save default pad settings
Hardware Management:
- Build Kits and Bank Snapshots while disconnected from the hardware
- Bulk upload samples from your Files and Videos
- Bulk move, share, and delete samples
- Edit and replace samples in place
- Import and record MIDI files
- Backup your Project or entire System
- Import Project and System from the official EP Sample Tool
- Extract Projects from your System Backups
- Preview stereo mixes of your Project Backups
- Automatic iCloud syncing across your Apple devices
Pads:
- Mute and unmute individual pads
- Apply performance effects to individual pads: mute, pitch up, pitch down, reverse
- Drag and drop pads to reassign them across groups
- See an entire bank of samples at once
- See the sample waveform along with its name and length
- See and edit the trim, attack, and release windows
- See and adjust volume, pitch, pan, mute, play mode, time-stretch, and MIDI channel
- See Supertone settings on your EP-40
Universal support:
- works on iPhone, iPad, and MacOS with built-in iCloud syncing
- works with EP-133 K.O. II, EP-40 Riddim, and EP-1320 Medieval with dedicated themes for each device
Best Friend is not affiliated with Teenage Engineering in any way.
Classificações e Avaliações
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New Features and improvements:
- New Offline Library. Build Kits and Bank Snapshots, import and bounce Backups, and manage your library all while disconnected from your hardware.
- New MIDI Importing. Import any MIDI file, map its notes to pads, and record to your EP.
- Duplicate and edit Bank Snapshots. Add new samples, delete existing ones, reorder pads, and edit samples in any of your Bank Snapshots.
- Streamlined editing across the library. Tap any text to edit its name. Tap icons to update them.
- Scene notes accurately reflect swing on off-grid notes.
- Improved MIDI mapping from MIDI bounces. Now viewable in the Library.
- Toggle Fader FX off or on when bouncing.
- All static Fader FX values are drawn in Scenes.
- New samples are autoassigned to its slot range.
- Improved backup and restore performance.
Fixes:
- Bounces ignored Legato Play Mode, causing mono notes to stack
- Pad Settings and Fader FX conflicted in bounces, causing issues with pitch, level, and time stretch
- Bounces with multi-samples only used the first region
- Pad Groups showed outdated pad assignments
- EP-40 connections were unreliable
- Onboarding text was truncated
Versão 3.1
Brian Holt, responsável pelo desenvolvimento do app, indicou que as práticas de privacidade do app podem incluir o gerenciamento de dados conforme descrito abaixo. Para obter mais informações, consulte a política de privacidade do app .
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Informações
Venda
Brian Holt
Tamanho
297,8 MB
Categoria
Música
Compatibilidade
Requer o iOS 26.0 ou posterior.
iPhone Requer o iOS 26.0 ou posterior.
iPad Requer o iPadOS 26.0 ou posterior.
Mac Requer o macOS 26.0 ou posterior.
Idiomas
Inglês
Idade
AL
Este app recebeu a seguinte classificação indicativa: AL.