Salome - MPE Audio Sampler 4+

There are any number of looping apps, some vastly complex others very simple. All have their niche, and qualities. Salome, sits somewhere in the middle. Brambos has cracked the nut of being easy to use, but also quite versatile. Salome is very, very handy for easily recording new instruments, which can then be loaded in another instance of the app as instruments. Played either live or via another app, such as the excellent Piano Motifs.

Literally only played it for a few minutes, so not an expert take - but immediately I’m able to play in sounds and then manipulate them in a very open playable way - just using the screen, not an external mpc controller.
My brain often trips up on lots of these kinds of apps, but this is quite different and very musical. Top.

I like the idea of the app but there are a number of things ‘wrong’ with it.

1. Frequent stuck MIDI notes when using external keyboard

2. The sampling feature produces sounds two octaves higher than the original. With only one octave of tuning adjustment this can’t be corrected.

3. There isn’t any way to specify the root note of the imported WAV file, so it plays in wrong octave.

4. The sample feature doesn’t produce a particularly accurate version of the sound source, although it does produce ‘interesting’ sounds because of this.

5. Most unfathomably, the app does not respond to MIDI sustain input. Can’t understand why a keyboard enabled app would not have this.