This app acts as an extended display and editing suite for Teenage Engineering EP-Series samplers. Connect your device via USB-C to view waveforms, manage pads, and edit samples with various tools like repitching, cropping, and EQ. It allows for bulk management and uploading of audio files from your device.
2.6
August 9, 2026
New features and improvements: - Refreshed design and dedicated device themes - Universal iPad and MacOS support with improved landscape screens for iPhone - Mute and unmute individual pads - Apply performance effects to individual pads: mute, pitch up, pitch down, reverse - Drag and drop pads to reassign them across groups - Drag pads to reorder Bank Snapshots - Drag and Drop support for file importing - Skip a file during multi-import so you don't need to discard the entire batch - New Preferences Screen Fixes: - Last opened folder was forgotten when importing samples - Delay XY Grid drag response was delayed
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Best Friend is a companion app designed to work with Teenage Engineering EP-Series samplers like the EP-133. It provides an extended display and advanced editing features for your sampler.
Yes, connecting to an EP-133, EP-40, or EP-1320 via USB-C is required for the app to function. It acts as an augmentation for these physical devices.
Best Friend allows for permanent cropping, repitching to reduce file size, normalization to increase volume, reversing playback, converting stereo to mono, changing sample rate, and applying a 3-band EQ.
Yes, the app supports bulk operations for uploading samples from your Files and Videos, deleting samples, moving samples, and sharing samples.
No, Best Friend is a paid application. It is available for purchase at $7.99.
No, Best Friend does not contain advertisements. It is a paid app with no in-app purchases or ads.
Best Friend is currently supported on iPhone devices. It requires a USB-C connection to your Teenage Engineering sampler.
The latest version of Best Friend is 2.2, and it was last updated on July 12, 2026. Updates typically occur to improve functionality and compatibility.
