Channel your inner J Dilla with the Koala Sampler for iPhone and iPad

Koala Sampler from Elf Audio is an iOS sampler inspired by the late, great J Dilla and his skills with the Boss SP-303.

Wanting to encapsulate the feel of creating beats with ease and no micro-editing, Elf Audio’s Marek Bereza created Koala with a workflow that “forces you to just get on with it and make some music.” Check out the full story behind the app’s development.

The app utilises your device’s on-board microphone to capture samples and create beats with the sequencer with a slew of effects. Full details below.

Koala Sampler is iOS compatible and available for both iPhone and iPad, costing $2.99/£2.99 from the App Store. See the Elf Audio website for more info.

Koala Sampler features

• Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
• Transform your voice or any other sound with 8 superb built-in fx
• Adjust trim, pan, pitch and volume of your samples
• Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
• Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
• Import samples using AudioShare or just open them in Koala
• Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
• Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
• Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
• Add any (or all) of the 8 effects to the entire mix
• AudioBus 3.0 compatible
• MIDI controllable
• Jam with others over WiFi with Ableton Link

Built-in Microphone FX

• More Bass
• More Treble
• Fuzz
• Robot
• Reverb
• Octave up
• Octave down
• Synthesizer

Built-in DJ Mix FX

• Bit-crusher
• Pitch-shift
• Comb filter
• Ring modulator
• Reverb
• Stutter
• Gate
• Resonant High/Low Pass Filters

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