Dawnbeat User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience71.5% of reviews
Neutral17.1% of reviews
Negative experience11.4% of reviews

~ Based on 123 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Dawnbeat Safe?

Dawnbeat - Sampler appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Dawnbeat is 82/100.

This assessment is based on 110 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

75.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
14.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 110 App Store ratings for Dawnbeat.

Is Dawnbeat Legit?

Dawnbeat - Sampler appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dawnbeat is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Good but crashes frequently

Good sampler but does crash when loads more than a couple samples in a close time frame

Hardware rival

Dawnbeat makes me wonder if there is a need for hardware samplers. The features of this sampler rival hardware versions especially considering portability.
Dawnbeat is also easy on the eyes. The user interface and color customization make it easy to adjust for your visual needs. Give it a try. The ease of use is a win for me.
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Made potential but broken

App has the potential to be dope but it’s broken. Lose all my work every time I reopen app and sequencer doesn’t work. Better as an instrument than an actual standalone app.

Super amazing sampler

Opened it back up today and looks like the bugs I reported are fixed plus there's newer stuff. Cheers!

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I love this app. Hoping for an update that fixes ran into bugs. Present bugs: unplugging/plugging in headphones killing audio playback, locking the device and reopening into app killing audio playback.
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Wow - Thank you

A FANTASTIC Gem

Fix auv3

Fix the auv3 interface on MacBook that isn’t working at all!!! No point of having that if u can’t use it on a Macbook

Amazing sampler

I love the design of this app. Please just add an arpeggiator.

One of the best Sampler App and YES HAVE AUV3

From my view, better than all the other apps I tried in a affordable. Tested all the most known and Dawnbeat was the easier and best to record, edit, config effects, the sequence as fast as the ideas come, so it’s very friendly to our creativity. Have ALOT of functions and effects with a very versatile use! AND YES, HAVE AUV3 SUPORT! Working very well with LOGIC PRO for iPad. I would love if they made as AAX plug-in to use I’m my PRO TOOLS. hehe
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I think this will be better than Koala….someday.

This will be great someday. I think the developer is really onto something special with this sampler. While it’s currently missing some features and has a few bugs to iron out, I already feel that the design of this sampler makes it more fun to use than others I’ve tried. I look forward to the day it’s feature complete and runs with some more stability.

The are some bugs currently:

- The app immediately crashes anytime I try to import a sample using Audioshare. It also has crashed while loading vst instruments. I hope it continues to get updates to iron out the bugs. I can also confirm what another review said about the app losing sound after the screen locks.

- In VST mode, when I record an audio file I’m only able to preview it once (if at all) then it never plays again when I press the play button. I can still load it to a pad and it plays fine. But, I can’t preview it after the first time.

- Where is the ‘Gallery?’ When I record an audio file and choose to save it to the ‘Gallery,’ where does it go?

- While running in AUM, after a while anything recorded into Dawnbeat via a mix bus sound like it’s been slowed/pitched down. Then after I close and open it again it sounds normal.

- While running standalone, I often will switch between Files and Dawnbeat. When I return to Dawnbeat no audio will play (background audio is set to always)

Features I’d like to see added:

- Choke groups!

- A master stop button added to stop all one shots, loops and sequence at once

- The ability to share audio files from other apps within i(pad)OS to Dawnbeat

- 24 and 32 bit audio recording

- Auto save and auto-resume upon open options

Otherwise, I’m having fun with it!
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Sidechain Fix?

Electronic music is my wheelhouse and my house is many years in the making… I love this app. Something about it has me hooked. That said I’m having an issue with the effects routing, specifically I cannot get the side-chain channel to work at all. It’s there but nothing happens when I tap it. I understand what a sidechain is and how to use it btw. Please fix this! Thank you!
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Glitchy but super amazing sampler

I love this app. Hoping for an update that fixes ran into bugs. Present bugs: unplugging/plugging in headphones killing audio playback, locking the device and reopening into app killing audio playback.

Meh

Workflow,Features,possibilities,auv3 Support etc. is Crazy good. But its unstaple,you cant export stems,it crashes when i wanna assign a auv3 to a Bus. Volumes of Single one shots changes on its own. This app could have been the love of my life with all it has to offer but too many things in the way.sad .hope u fix it and we can marry
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Bester Sampler?

Dafür dass es kostenlos ist, ist es ein Hammer Sampler!!! Danke schon mal an den/die Entwickler für dieses Investment!!! Die Oberfläche ist übersichtlich und gut leserlich. Es passt alles echt soweit und ich bevorzuge Dawnbeat allen anderen gegenüber. Manchmal hängt sich der Sampler in Cubasis auf. Ich denke dass das sicherlich bald behoben ist. Was noch cool wäre: ein verbessertes hinüberziehen von eigenen Samples. Midi Aufnahme bei aktiven Sequenzer in Cubasis. Draw Funktion im Sequenzer sollte nicht nur zeichnen, sondern bei erneuten Klick auch löschen können. Das wäre noch sehr nützlich. DANKE
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Cool app

I’m really enjoying this app

Good app but……

This app doesn’t go to landscape mode on iPhone…..and NO option to use midi auv3

Glitchy

This app has good features and works well with the sound but it’s super glitchy every time my screen turns off I have to frickin restart the app because it won’t play the song when I turn it back on and it crashes way too often

Bit of a Learning curve but better, more complete and more complete than any other sampler on iOS.

I’ve used multiple DAWS, apps, and software to make music for over 15 years.

Dawnbeat takes it back to the days of the workhorse quirky programming that produced the SP-303 and other legendary machines.

There’s a steep learning curve currently.

But It is clearly a passion project to make the most complete sampler on the AppStore with plenty of flair.

You get all the features you would expect from modern samplers such as auto chopping and a slew of onboard effects. But you also get Au app integration included. No 3rd party link needed.

Also if you forgot to press record. It automatically can load the last bit of jamming you did.

Definitely not as easy to use as Koala but my god is there more charm and functionality included.
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Richtig nices tool

Macht Spaß / Sound gefällt mir besser als bei Koala / could yoy please ad Midi Support for Wave adjustierte? :-)

Bugs

I was very happy with this sampler app but since the last update, the Fade out Fade in option doesnt seem to change anything. It's just the waves changing but not the Sound. I am a bit disappointed, since I paid for the full version.

Really good

I was initially mislead by the not very catchy looks of the app, until I used it. It’s really powerful, with several unique features