Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic or load your own sounds. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!
Koala's super intuitive interface helps you make a track in a flash - there is no brake pedal. You can also resample the output of the app back into the input, through the effects, so the sonic possibilities are endless.
Koala's design focuses totally on making the music-making process instant, keeping you in the flow and keeping it fun, not getting bogged down by pages of parameters and micro-editing.
"Been putting that $4 koala sampler to good use lately. Undeniably great tool that puts some of these expensive beat boxes to shame. A must cop."
-- flying lotus, twitter
* Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
* Transform your voice or any other sound with 16 superb built-in fx
* Load your own samples
* Choose from one of 250 built-in sounds
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Direct export to Ableton Live Set
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import samples from the Files app or even from videos
* Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
* Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
* Normal/One-shot/Loop/Reverse playback of samples
* 6 Choke groups
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls and note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* AUv3 compatible - use in GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis etc etc
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard, map the effects to knobs
* Jam with others over WiFi with Ableton Link
* Free copy of Ableton Live Lite included
* AudioShare compatible
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Set your own background image and choose from a growing list of background visual FX
8 Built-in Microphone FX:
* More Bass
* More Treble
* Fuzz
* Robot
* Reverb
* Octave up
* Octave down
* Synthesizer
16 Built-in DJ Mix FX:
* Bit-crusher
* Pitch-shift
* Comb filter
* Ring modulator
* Reverb
* Stutter
* Gate
* Resonant High/Low Pass Filters
* Cutter
* Reverse
* Dub
* Tempo Delay
* Talkbox
* VibroFlange
* Dirty
* Compressor
Features included in SAMURAI In-App Purchase
* Pro-quality Timestretch (5 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats, Re-pitch and Cyclic)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* 3 Band EQ
* Pocket operator sync out
* Quokka Synth - powerhouse polyphonic synthesizer
* MIDI Out - control external MIDI hardware with Koala's sequencer
* Chopper - multimodal sample chopping instrument
Features included in MIXER In-App Purchase
* Mix your beats professionally with a 4 channel mixer + main bus
* Route any sample to any channel
* Mute/solo, faders and accurate metering on every channel
* 5 effect slots per channel
* 29 high-quality effects - compressors, filters, phasers and more, with new effects to come
* Host AUv3 plugins - both audio effects and instruments
A Request to Elf Studios (hope you can read this!)
Nozu wuvs u
Before I start, I would like to say that I absolutely love this app. The fact that a mobile application is capable of doing 90% of what a 500$+ drum machine can do is absolutely unbelievable. I can tell that care and love was put into the development of this amazing app. I love the community surrounding the app, and most importantly, the things I have been able to achieve thanks to this app. Koala has truly become a daily routine to my everyday life as I continue to learn how to produce and finger drum, and even if one day I decide to get an actual drum machine, I will still remember that this is where I started. I have basically had no problems while using this app with a very smooth ui and a pretty nifty set of features. However, I only run into one problem, which is my request. I would love to see a bpm detection feature added to the Samurai Edition, a feature that is capable of detecting the bpm of any sample that is dragged into a project, similar to popular daws such as Ableton. In my opinion, this will be a game changer for the app and practically replace the use of a DAW almost fully, and if not, work perfectly hand and hand with one. Again, thank you (the developers) for making this amazing app that allows me to better myself in beatmaking and further mark myself in the drum machine culture. I hope you can read this!
Brilliant
Stenaulis
Amazingly designed app. Incredibly fun and inspiring to work with. And the extra (very reasonably priced) add-ons greatly increase functionality. I’ve only had this app for a couple days and I already have multiple projects going. That said, I have run into multiple bugs during the short time that I’ve been playing around with this app, including one in which the audio can suddenly become incredibly loud and distorted. No fun if you’re wearing headphones.. Also, I have to deduct one star because I feel the the app could benefit from a couple basic features. As someone who works with a lot of ambient, drone-type samples, I believe the sample editor desperately needs some sort of loop crossfade functionality. Also, simple LP/HP filters would go a long way. All in all, a very powerful and fun app. Would highly recommend to anyone. Will update my review when the bugs are inevitably ironed out.Update: After some bug fixes and the recent inclusion of sample crossfade functionality, I can now say that this app is pure perfection. Amazing job by the developer!
The Best I’ve seen on IOS so far!
SagaTypeBeat
First of all I’d like to say I hope you [The Developer] never sell out like some of these other music apps have. I can tell a lot of thought was put into making this App and I sincerely hope you continue to be successful and genuine on you’re journey! As far as the app itself I’d say it’s quite literally what I’ve been looking for all day. I’ve bounced back from app to app, even GarageBand and I gotta say this app is well worth it and I highly favor it now over the last couple things i’ve downloaded. The premium price is well worth what your getting and it even comes in parts. So your not paying for more than what you need. I’m happy to find there is no subscription. And there isn’t a million add-ons I need to buy every time I want ONE more single feature. It’s fair and well worth what your paying.I’m able to take files straight out of my iPhone, throw it into the app on some Pads, chop it up and create patterns straight off my phone with ease! Among a plethora of other things I haven’t even discovered yet. I really just wanted something I could use while on the go when I’m out’n about feeling inspired. All I got left to say is this app among an overly saturated App Store full of glitchy, uninspired, greedy Music Production apps is amazing and well worth the cost.Trust if you continue down this path of being altruistic and offering quality along side reliability I will continue to support you!Cheers!!!
Sound Playground & Lots of potential
two.tongues
It’s pretty fun to play with, I bought the premium upgrades and really like the many possibilities you can do in this sampler playground. I hope the developer will continue to work on it because it’s one of my favorite apps! :) Oh and hey developer, I think it would be cool if you could make it so we can color individual pads for organization sake; I think it would be awesome and would also make the app more personalize-able for the user! ;) also another thing that would be handy would be the ability to record midi without triggering pads. Also it would be awesome to make the app more friendly to audio interfaces, because I’ve tried to use my Focusrite Scarlett Solo to connect my guitar and microphone and it kinda works but it sounds wack. Maybe I just don’t know how to use my gear lol would love these features to be implemented into the app!
- Global undo/redo
- Arpeggiator
- Chopper gets a NEXT trigger mode - play your chops one after another
- New export options - control exactly how your loops and tracks are exported
- Piano roll notes now match your pad colours
- Lots of bug fixes
Version 2.0.3
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