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 all notes and all patterns for a selected Group
- See Fader FX and automation lanes for each Group
- 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
- Use Real-time bounces to capture performances, Supertone, and effects
- All real-time captures are MIDI-sync'd
- 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
- iPad and MacOS support Logic Pro-style Musical Typing
Sample Editing:
- Extract stems (drum, bass, vocal, guitar, and other instrument) from your samples
- Build, edit, and convert 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
Backups:
- Build Kits and Bank Snapshots while disconnected from the hardware
- Backup your Project or entire System
- Browse your backups to see and hear what it contains
- Restore portions of your backup: a single pattern, a couple samples, a scene, and more
- Import Project and System from the official EP Sample Tool
- Extract Projects from your System Backups
- Preview stereo mixes and make Bounces of your Project Backups
- Import and record MIDI files and patterns
Hardware Sample Management:
- Bulk upload samples from your Files and Videos
- Bulk move, share, and delete samples
- Edit and replace samples in place
- Record audio directly to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to process before importing
- Keyboard support on iPad and macOS
Pads:
- Mute and unmute individual pads
- Apply performance effects to individual pads: mute, pitch up, pitch down, reverse
- Change Pad Settings for multiple pads at once
- Copy a pad and its settings to another
- Chop a sample across pads in equal chops, transient chops, or lazy mode
- 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:
- Automatic iCloud syncing across your Apple devices
- 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.
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New Features and improvements:
- New Backup Browser: Open backups to browse, preview, bounce, and restore, any portion of the backup including scenes, groups, patterns, and samples.
- Change Pad Settings for multiple pads at once.
- Chop a sample across pads in lazy, equal, or transient modes
- Copy copy pads from the Pad Group screen
- Assign multiple samples to empty pad spots from the Sample list
- New multi-sample editor: split the sample into regions and make finer adjustments to crop and loop points
- Convert any sample, recording, or video into a multi-sample, auto-split into notes on supported hardware
- In-app documentation, under App Settings → Documentation
Fixes:
- Pick the recording input from the recording input
- Trim markers sometimes snapped back after a drag
- Waveform markers froze near where they were picked up
- Bank Snapshot pads were unconstrained on macOS
- iCloud-only bounces and MIDI files stalled on tap instead of downloading
- Projects with only a looping sound wouldn't preview
- Undo banner couldn't be dismissed
- Changing play mode matches envelope release with hardware changes