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 automation lanes for each bank
- Export REAL audio stems of every individual pad directly from your EP
- Navigate through the Scene timeline with automatic playhead following
Bounce and Export Audio Stems:
- Export REAL audio stems directly 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:
- Bulk upload samples from your Files and Videos
- Bulk move, share, and delete samples
- Edit and replace samples in place
- 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
- Save Bank Snapshots to share and recall later
- 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.
Tolles Tool für den EP-133. Das wertet das Gerät noch ein paar Stufen höher auf mit den vielen Funtionen. Kein Abo, braucht kein Internet, besser geht’s nicht. (So etwas bräuchte ich auch für den OP-XY 😉)Dankeschön an Brian. 🙏
Entwickler-Antwort
So happy you like it!
almost Works… sometimes
quickcrusader
I thought this would be a practical app to backup projects on my iphone. on almost every project i tried it has issues and doesnt back up right. the design is nice but i would prefer it working . would not recommend.
Entwickler-Antwort
Hi! I’ve done a fair bit of backup testing so I’m not sure what’s giving you a problem. Please send me a message at feedback@epbf.app and I’ll try to troubleshoot it.
New Features:
- See all of your sequenced notes and fader automation lanes across any Scene or Song.
- Export multi-track audio stems of your Scenes or Song directly from the hardware. Every single pad is isolated using the REAL samples and data, all WITHOUT AI separation.
- Make your own chord presets in the MIDI Controller.
- Split the Keyboard into zones for easier alternate chords positions.
- Add the lower octave to your chord.
- Extract Projects from your System Backups
- Audio Previews of your Project Backups
- A brand new Library for managing and arranging your Backups, Bank Snapshots, and Bounces
- iCloud support that automatically backs up and syncs Best Friend across all of your Apple devices
- Automatic key detection of your samples
- Animated onboarding guides for every screen
Fixes:
- Backups could fail when encountering a corrupted sample
- Undo wouldn't fire when deleting Bank Snapshots or Backups
- MIDI Controller could crash the hardware with too much data
Version 3.0
Das Entwicklungsteam, Brian Holt, hat darauf hingewiesen, dass die Datenschutzrichtlinien der App den unten stehenden Umgang mit Daten einschließen können. Weitere Informationen findest du in den Datenschutzrichtlinien des Entwicklungsteams .
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