iSample - Sampler / Recorder / Looper App Reviews

If you like scrubbing around on sound files for unique noise and want an app to loop, meter and organize your sound creations into patterns, this is a good choice as an editor. What I especially like about the app is the easy, intuitive workflow. However, maybe Im missing something, but Id really like to be able to individually pan each sample. The mixer has gain, but no balance that I can find. I hope im not being dense (still on my honeymoon with this app) but each sample should have its own balance.

its really great to have a quick and dirty sampler on the iphone. im hoping to see some new features like a way to adjust the gain of each pad as well as a way to set a start and end point of a recorded sample for perfect looping. id also like to be able to copy a sample from one pad to another. all in all, a fun app to grab for its simplicity and functionality.

This is the most user friendly sampler for the iPhone. Big buttons give the option for using it live. Also love how u can touch the samples and modify on the fly. Dont get me wrong, I love beatmaker, nanostudio all the copy and paste apps but if this app gets midi in/ out support.... Crazy!!!!!!!

So far I am not impressed with a very big and nasty "bug," in that I bought this app with the intention of loading my own samples for use with my band, but it just does not work. So far I am very unhappy with this.

Update: $9.99?! Wow, that is a bit exorbitant. I only paid 99 cents. Thats just too much for this app in comparison to other apps you can get that are similar to this. You could buy three apps just as high quality (even more so) for that price. Id never recommend paying $10 for this app. Devs are just getting greedy on the App Store, so I always recommend supporting devs who will charge a fair price and also support and keep up with updating and adding new features. Thats just crazy. Im glad I grabbed this early on. Original Review: Well, I had only just reinstalled this after seeing there was an update to this. Im really pleasantly surprised by all of the new features and content. Its a very nice looking app and pretty intuitive, though certain things about it feel very unfinished. There should be a way to tie all patterns together at the same spot in the song or loop while mixing and messing with single parts. Similar to how you can edit song in Reason and have all parts running at the right time within the song. The worst thing about this (though my rating does not reflect this opinion) are the prepackaged songs. I mean, ridiculously bad. The "African" loop is so bad its almost obsene, lol. I kept wondering if it was some kind of error where there was another song playing on top of it...but after investigating, it became clear that it was, indeed, how the song actually went. Some of the songs were worse than others, but rather than completely incohesive (not in a cool eclectic way) like the African one, they were tuneless and just plain bad, for lack of a better word. Just very surprising that not even the devs recognized this enough to halt the songs from making it out into the public. Otherwise, the app is looking far better than it was when I initially bought it.

You can do lots with this app. I find it fun to mess around with it for laughs. You can transfer to and from a PC/Mac to this program. Every piece of software has potential, and this one is hovering around 80% for me, hence the 4-star rating.

Couldnt be better!

Without an export to file function or copy paste to other apps this thing is pretty much useless. What a waste of money .

Needs an update with MIDI implementation.

The app works great if you want to use their mediocre common sounds that you hear every day, but to record and loop your own sounds is a waste of time with this application

I bought this app years ago and still use it, however. It is in DIRE need of an update. The developers seem to have abandoned it :( it really is a good app. I have hundreds of $$$ in pro music apps. This little app is affordable and useful. Works well sounds great just needs some modernization and updating to compete w pro apps. Still I say its a buy