Sampletoy app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
7072 ratings )
Music
Entertainment
Developer:
Mazbox Limited
Free
Current version:
1.2.5, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 03 Mar 2010
App size: 23.56 Mb
Sampletoy is a radical new musical instrument/plaything; part sampler, part granular synthesiser. Use it to capture sounds through the microphone, then play, loop, pitch and distort them live on the screen.
There are plenty of features under the hood, such as resonant filters, delays and envelope. You can enable "stepped" mode to play your sounds like a traditional keyboard, or keep it in "free" mode for some microtonal madness.
Once youve recorded a sound, use the main area of the screen to play it back at different pitches (up to 5 fingers at a time). You can crop the sound by dragging a selection over the waveform. The crop area is also multitouch and you can adjust the crop while playing the sound too.
The y-axis is pitch of the sound, and the x-axis is configurable to control filters or envelope.
You can record your performances on Sampletoy and send them via email within the app as a CD-quality wav file (mono or stereo)
FEATURES
-------
* Create your own instruments out of any sound.
* Email your performances as audio files straight from the app.
* Built-in resonant filters, delay and envelope.
* Auto-saves current recording and state and recalls it again on next launch.
* Stepped mode allows chromatic, major, minor, pentatonic and whole-tone scales to be played.
* Totally multitouch - play up to 5 notes at once.
* 44kHz/16bit - professional quality sound.
* AudioBus3 output
* Import any audio file to Sampletoy from Files, Voice memos, DropBox etc
* Open non-audio files and hear what they sound like
* Bluetooth / Airplay support
* Built-in comprehensive manual.
Pros and cons of Sampletoy app for iPhone and iPad
Sampletoy app good for
What a kick for creativity!
Extremely easy and exciting to use.
To retrieve the samples/loops that you may want to re-use in Beatmaker or any other audio tool you just send it with the built-in email function to your PC as wav files.
A bargain !
I have on my I-pad almost all music make apps,(it is addiction,I am afraid) but Sampletoy is the pearl on my collection.Bravo Marek.Now,make some copy-paste or Audiobus compare and Ill be very happy.
Some bad moments
Excellent and engrossing app. Ive been looking for this kind of instrument since i got the iPhone. Thanks.
This is the most fun Ive had with a sound/music app yet and I have about everyone thats hit the App Store!
If bebot were a sampler and granular synthesizer, it would look something like this. This may turn out to be one of the more useable iphone instruments for me personally.
2 functional things: I can usually make a note stick in stepped mode if I move all the way from left to right. Also, personally I think the range function should work when you are in stepped mode as well, thus you could do away with bass mode altogether.
Wish list: More mangling efx such as distortion (bit degrade?), etc. Possibly a more customizable scale choice a la bebot. Also, it would be great if you could select the direction of the sample being played by sliding your finger forward or backwards over the sample bar.
Anyway, by far the most useful (to me) granular synth/sampler app Ive tried.
Sold me.. Thanks bro! This app is awesomely awesome, take thermos79s review and slap a ditto on it for me.. (although its hard for me to pick a favorite app in this genre I love them all) I must say.. The delay.. The scales.. The multi-touch.. Perfect.. Definately a MUST buy for any audio geek.
I love the app.
However, can we see an update that allows the uploading of samples from a desktop?
Also, Id like to lock a selection, so that I can move a segment along a sample without resizing it.
I am using this to create atmospheres in a home studio. Trent Rezor/Twiggy Ramirez caliber sampling on your iPhone. Finds its way into every song. Cant wait to see what features updates bring.