Flip Sample‪r‬ 4+

Awesome App (But Where’s Pitch Quantization?)

I bought this without even thinking about it, and I don’t regret that decision, even if 99% of the music I make is DAWless. Flip’s got a great workflow, and some super-powerful—but easy-to-use—tools on hand. I feel like I’m only scratching the surface of what it can do.

There are some missing features, though, the biggest being pitch quantization. I’d love to be able to just lock in a scale on the keyboard and piano roll and not worry about hitting a wrong note. (Imagine that working with the randomization functions! That’d be so cool!) Pitch quantization is by far the feature I want the most.

All this to say: this is an awesome app. If you’re interested in making music but don’t have a ton of experience, this is THE app to get: it’s fairly priced, easy to use, and extremely powerful.

Longtime electronic producer enjoying iOS

This 9 track sampler is actually a brilliant and exceedingly high functioning complete groove workstation. The layout was intuitive I managed to find all features without using it’s also brilliantly convenient help button that’s always there to explain any feature by tapping it then the button or knob in question. The internal sample store also looks like it’s going to be very hip and vibey someday, as if this review it seamed like it had about 5 interesting looking packs for sale, I did not try any out though my phone is clogged with samples by now so I imported my own into the app smoothly without incident. As far as there being a way to bulk import I’m not sure as I’m to lazy to have read anything the developers written yet, including this AppStore page, but I had to leave a review because to me this marks the moment good design and music production really start to get along with each other on iOS.

Wishlist _ 1. Just one synthesizer would be super Fire! 2. Saturator effect, thigh I do love the decimation that allready present 3. I really dig the user interface and think it’s brilliant but for my taste despite how clean, right and tight it is it still has a little bit of a childish vibe and would love to see a more stark yet colorful approach maybe similar to auxey pro or something. Thanks to developer, super great work here, I’m stoked

Game changer (srsly)

I wanted to wait until I had a chance to really play with all the features, directly compare it to other apps, and really put it through the ringer. And it’s impressive! It is exactly the bridge between working with loops and really opening up technical music making possibilities. The pads are super responsive. The quantize is perfect. The sampling capabilities are seemingly endless. I’ve already made some really fun beats with just my breath and some whistling.

Pros: -sampling is so robust you can make almost any sound from the right input sound
-exporting to the stems is a leap above what anyone else is offering
-one time purchase! Apps that are way less comprehensive require monthly (sometimes weekly) subscription fees

Cons: -I personally haven’t figured out how to simultaneously export the whole song and the stems at the same time. Small thing that’s mostly preferential.
-Sometime when I’m editing midi, it crashes. But that could honestly be my phone. Who knows?

Overall, this is a huge win. Even with the smallest of flaws I give this five stars. Do not hesitate to buy this.

Update: Didn’t check all the files after export. Master was totally there. Flawless app.

Developer Response ,

If you press Export on the arrangement page you can choose between Master or Stems (which also includes the master) :)