Chameleon AUv3 Sampler Plugin User Reviews

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Chameleon is so important

I purchase Chameleon a long while ago and it has been very useful, but just lately a lot of AUv3 Synth apps have been crashing unexpectedly during performances, so I have sampled all my most used presets and imported them into Chameleon, I am now 110% confident of stability, thanks Paul šŸ»

Clutch!

Paul, this app is amazing. Is there any way we can get files to load in a sequential order if loading multiple samples at once?

Ex. Name: 1. Sample1, 2. Sample2 - 3. Sample3 … 32. Sample 32 in order?

Files get renamed by Chameleon so it’s hard to track them… files loaded in order can get mapped faster

Thanks!
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Limited Sampling Ability.

The app unfortunately is limited to a maximum of 32 samples per preset. I would not have purchased this app had I known about this limit beforehand. Hours of time were wasted before learning about the limit. So do NOT expect to have a portable software sampler that can achieve ā€œindividually sampledā€ notes across a meaningful range (mapping each sample to specific keys). Layered preset functionality (as in 2 presets/64 samples total) would solve this. Microtonal tuning, for example, unfortunately is something that you will still have to turn to MacOS desktop software to achieve.
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wheres the manual

No manual?Is this an easy, intuitive app?Don’t answer if it happens to be; for you! Even better I was sent to Kal marketing for app support from the app store?Non-sense! Worse, they wanted mke to sign in to X to get to 4pockets. How can I sign in to X when I have an aversion to the existence of Elon Musk and anyone who could tolerate his existence? What is going on here?Non information and tryin to get us to support people we don’t like? I have purchased almost all the apps and they are good and the complicated ones like string machine have a built in manual.Chameleon is more complex but with no manual and no way to get one, Why?
Apple or developer contact me with info. about a manual
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Almost 5 Star

Great app for sampling synths, really easy to use. Problem is there is no way that I can see to export or backup created banks

Limited Sampling Ability.

The app unfortunately is limited to a maximum of 32 samples per preset. I would not have purchased this app had I known about this limit beforehand. Hours of time were wasted before learning about the limit.

Response from developer

There is a limitation of 32 samples simply because being able to sample more is simpnot neccesary. If you are sampling 7 octaves (84 notes) that allows one sample to cover 3 semitones which is more than enough. You really don't need to sample every note to get a good sounding instrument. The presents use no more than 12 samples to cover an entire keyboard and sound great.

Great sampler, need improvement to mono/legato section

The sampler is great , but the mono is very basic no legato and no mono priority choice

This is amazing!

I have to say that this is an amazing app!! I have Omnisphere 2 and really hoped that it would be created for IOS, but it never will be. Then I found this app and all is well. I can bring my favorite massive Omnisphere pads into my iPad. Thank you!!

One request. Is there a way to improve the cross fade to conceal the cross fade point (where it ducks in volume creating a sort of tremolo effect at the cross fade point). I am working on a work around regarding the samples to try to create a more seamless loop point without having to use cross fade at this time. But if it could be improved this app would be well worth 5 times its price!
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Almost perfect

Great sampler; would be 5 stars if it had an option to export sampled instruments in formats that allow them to be played outside the app (e.g. as wav files so I got load the multisample into my Korg Wavestate). Otherwise super if you just need to use it in AU hosts on the iPad; recommended.

Needs adsr for each sample

Hello
Cool app but it really needs adsr for each sample, so if you use drum mode you can adjust each sample accordingly and automate the envelope from an outside sequencer.
Thx

Uhh... IIA not working?

Can't really find a way to reach the dev for support, so I'm posting it here. I can't get chameleon to receive audio from any other app through IIA. I tried:

-) AUM. Connecting to AUM output, it shows a successful connection in AUM. But chameleon seems to receive no audio, and the record button in chameleon won't click.

-) Audiobus 3: chameleon isn't listed as an output option at all in AB3. But I can select "Audiobus intermediate out" in chameleon, however, AB3 doesn't say anywhere that any connection was made (I don't know if it is supposed to say so), and in chameleon, it still seems to be receiving no audio.

-) connecting directly to audiokit synth one : inside chameleon, I selected synth one as my source. It says the same "success" message, but still seems to be receiving no audio. If I click monitor button, it warns me about feedback, but no sound is heard from synth one, and the record button still does nothing.

So I've tried three different ways to get IIA to be received by chameleon, and none worked. But the dev has been updating this app, so I find it difficult to believe that this problem would be overlooked. Am I doing something wrong?

I left 5 stars but if the dev doesn't respond and I can't find a solution elsewhere, I'll probably be back with a different rating.
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Not loading

Just purchased this and it’s not opening up in Cubasis 3 on a brand new iPad Pro 2020. Rip off!

Question, and compliments

I'm going to start this off by saying that ive purchased 3 bundels of apps from you, and they are by far the best Audio editing plug-ins I have ever used, you get way more quality tools than what you pay for, and these apps are really easy to use even with all the complex effects that they do. they have way more effects than any other plug ins i have ever used, and have the most organized interface i have seen. I have yet to see one of these plug-ins crash in garageband, and the window option on the iphone 10 xs max works great. I can easily change the effects on my instruments, and still hit the piano keys to test out how it sounds. I have never experinced any lag, or clicking noises when messing around with effects on audio samples either. Also for any of you who use the iphone 10 xs max for audio/video editing you may have noticed you phone gets hot alot. ever sinced i started using these plug-ins my phone has not been hot nor has it crashed these plug-ins are just pure quality. Also anybody that deals with their phone getting hot while editing there is a way to fix it if you can live without siri. just go into your setting, and turn of all siri functions on all the apps, including background app refresh on everything expcept E-Mail. It dosent fix it all the time, but your iphone will not get no where near as hot, and alot of times not at all. now on to the question lol, i was wondering if you would be able to make a sampler, such as the sampler in garage band, but instead of when you change the note on the sampler in garageband it either slows the sample down or speeds it up. you can simply set a tempo that the audio loop will follow no matter what note you change the loop to. in short when i go from E0 to E2 i want the sampler to automatically transpose the loop to that note, and I know gargeband has a transpose option, but having to snip an audio loop then transpose it at multiple points gets tedious, and really takes me out of my creative mind state lol

thank you-
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Not opening in standalone mode on iPhone 7

I want to god this app 5 stars but it’s not opening in standalone mode on my iPhone 7 running iOS 13.3.

It opens fine as a AU plugin from a host but not in standalone. When I attempt to open i see the splash screen for a 1-2 seconds then the app closes. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling, rebooting device,etc
Nothing has worked. Emailed support and have not gotten a reply. I really need this to work in standalone mode on my device.
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Mapping samples to keys or pad

I can’t get into this sampler because when I try to assign a sound to a key, multiple samples play at once. I want one sample on the A key, another sample on B, a third on C, etc and its not working that way. I’m new to this and without clear instructions, either written or video, I’m more frustrated than inspired. And forget about using this in Cubasis. A little help please.
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Not sure how to put this

You make some great products. Particularly the sample and drum playback auv3. The thing I find really disappointing is the ghost like support. I thought I found your website but it doesn’t list many of these products. I’ve tried contacting you via that website and through the App Store but have never had a reply to my support questions. You can have the best product in the world but if you are not there to help the user it may as well be a pile of dirt. Please make yourselves available to your customer base and I will happily change this review.
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Response from developer

I'm not sure why your attempts at contacting me have failed, please send emails to me directly at paul@4pockets.com with any questions and I will do my best to help. Alternatively I am active on FaceBook under 4PocketsAudio.

Very useful app

Nice to see this update to real-time sample editing, however auto zero cross snapping is a hindrance to realtime precision unless it can be disabled. Otherwise this app has great potential

Brilliant

Just great - took a while to fathom some things is there a manual?great app and highly recommended

Please increase sampling time and improve on patch browser

I love pretty much everything about this except how short the sampling time is. I was really hoping this would be the one but the lack of time stretching and only 8 seconds of sampling time means BM3 is still the king of samplers. It would be great if there was a chop mode too.
Also, the patch browser needs work, having it close every time I select a patch and having to open it again, navigate to the category again and chose the next patch make the process extremely slow when finding sounds
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5 stars as the dev was quick to fix the AUv3.

The AUv3 did not load when multitrack launched (at all) on either AUM, AudioBus or ApeMatrix.

Although I haven’t tried ApeMatrix or AudioBus yet, it works just fine with AUM now, which makes me think it’ll probably be ok too with the other two (Although apparently ApeMatrix still has some issues with it but I’m sure they’ll be resolved soon).

As for the multitrack recorder AUv3, I was not aware it has been updated (restored my phone a few weeks ago and I forgot to deactivate automatic updates ha!). Sorry about that! I will check whether my issues with it have been solved already or not but thanks for letting me know .

I do hope in the future for multitrack we can load several AUv3s of the multitrack that somehow act as a single instance (for multitrack recording in parallel (drums on one track, synths on another... etc).). Although this could be done on separate instances it makes more sense to me to be able to localize all our recordings in the same auv3 instance, it almost turns AUM ApeMatrix and AudioBus onto full DAW!

Thanks for the wonderful feedback, it is always the best when a dev keeps up with his clients.

I will now make sure I support 4pockets more in the future by buying more of their very accesible plugins which seem to be top quality according to the reviews.
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