Koala Sampler 4+

Simply put, this app is amazing. It makes beat making so fun and creative. It’s simple to use but does the job so well.
Since buying this app I have hardly touched my sp404 mainly because of hands on ease of use and quick workflow. Now with samurai mode and when using AUM app to sample other instruments apps or external synths ect straight into Koala just take this bad boy to a whole different level. It’s just so much fun to use. Within minutes u can have the bases of a decent track, it’s just so hands on! I would love an EQ mode but can work around using tone editor. The only gripe I have is the occasional crashing. But again in the developers defence, updates and bug fixes are released every month to couple of weeks and they really do listen to the concerns of the users directly. I once msged matey on Instagram about an issue, he got back to me within minutes. Can’t really ask for much more than that!
Purchase this bad boy, trust me u will not regret it! 😁

This is one of the easiest to use sample sequencing and editing apps I’ve been able to find, it also has such severe issues with crashes that can easily lead to loss of hours worth of work that it is borderline unusable unless you save every couple of minutes; one of the recent updates seems to have messed up the whole app as well, such that clicking play or record will immediately take me to a part within a sequence and not the beginning, this same issue coming up when I’ve tried to record a finished song, making it basically impossible to get my work off of the app without using Audiobus to record the input from koala, which is a headache. Also, since there isn’t really a sequencer and you have to play in what you record rather than using a piano roll type system, the lack of count-in options to record makes sequencing a headache, especially if you want something to be triggered on the first beat, and even more so if you have a loop that you want to play across the whole sequence and end up having to wait until a potentially quite long sequence has finished to see if it has even ended up recording to the sequence.
It’s a good price and it’s most of the way to being excellent, there are just a few issues that make it hard to recommend in its current state; if they’re dealt with, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it.

This is by far the most instantly gratifying, inspirational music making app I have purchased. Not only is it a sampler, with a fast intuitive way of working, it is also a great way to quickly structure a track. I have so many pieces on the go that are constantly evolving. With a few tweaks here and there over time this will be absolutely perfect. For instance, The piano roll is a bit fiddly to use without adding unwanted notes, or there could be a way of pre-programming sequences for a full song rather than triggering them in real time to record, which in my case, always ends with me not cueing at exactly the right moment. Otherwise and exceptional creative tool.