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.
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.
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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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.
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!
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.
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.
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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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
Very nearly perfect but with a few bugs which hopefully will be ironed out soon
I love playing with Koala and other music apps, so jumped at the chance to try this, a cool looking and cheaper alternative. I soon realised it’s actually got features that Koala has not, and does things I’ve always wanted Koala to do, especially loading plugins to pads and stuff like that. It’s sidechain functionality is great too, and even works with the input channel muted, so I can record say a bass line that has been sidechained to a kick, without having to play the kick as well which Koala can’t do as far as I can tell.
There’s lots of other little touches as well that really make this shine. Even the custom UI settings are great and allow you to modify all of the background colours and even fonts (although the default font is the best one, but I’m a design snob lol).
Now for the negatives. I’ve seen a few bugs so far, particularly when using plugins. I know since iOS updated my phone has been lagging and slow so maybe it’s not all the apps fault, but it will occasionally crash or not record the audio with the render button when a plugin is involved, but luckily you can use the other live style record button to capture the whole set instead. It only lets you sidechain once per project I think too, whereas Koala allows multiple sidechain fx on different tracks at once.
Sometimes it doesn’t remember the last project or update it right after rebooting or closing the app either, so regular saving is a must right now. Still these are all hopefully things that will be ironed out soon enough, and this developer is obviously a good one with a great eye for detail, so I’m not worried about the future of this great little app and I’m so glad I took the chance, and for such a low price tag it’s absolutely worth it and I’ve not used Koala since I’ve downloaded this app.
There’s lots of other little touches as well that really make this shine. Even the custom UI settings are great and allow you to modify all of the background colours and even fonts (although the default font is the best one, but I’m a design snob lol).
Now for the negatives. I’ve seen a few bugs so far, particularly when using plugins. I know since iOS updated my phone has been lagging and slow so maybe it’s not all the apps fault, but it will occasionally crash or not record the audio with the render button when a plugin is involved, but luckily you can use the other live style record button to capture the whole set instead. It only lets you sidechain once per project I think too, whereas Koala allows multiple sidechain fx on different tracks at once.
Sometimes it doesn’t remember the last project or update it right after rebooting or closing the app either, so regular saving is a must right now. Still these are all hopefully things that will be ironed out soon enough, and this developer is obviously a good one with a great eye for detail, so I’m not worried about the future of this great little app and I’m so glad I took the chance, and for such a low price tag it’s absolutely worth it and I’ve not used Koala since I’ve downloaded this app.
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Great app, beats Koala imo
I wouldn’t leave a review if I didn’t love this app. There’s one thing that’d make this app incredible. A ‘humanise’ feature that chooses a random velocity between two values. So I can set my hihat velocity parameters. And every time I hit the pad it plays a random integer between these parameters to give a human feel even when playing on an iPad screen.
Or set an order of velocity in a loop per pad.
Or just hitting the bottom of the pad has lowest velocity and it’s a gradient to full velocity at the top of the pad.
Not sure on the solution but something to stop every drum hit being the same velocity that makes a groove feel stiff.
This app beats koala for me. So clean and fun
Or set an order of velocity in a loop per pad.
Or just hitting the bottom of the pad has lowest velocity and it’s a gradient to full velocity at the top of the pad.
Not sure on the solution but something to stop every drum hit being the same velocity that makes a groove feel stiff.
This app beats koala for me. So clean and fun
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I think this will be much better than Koala.
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!
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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Does not work at all
Whenever I open the app, and try to record/add a sample, it crashes the app. It doesn’t even work on my iPad. All of my devices are up to date too. (iPhone 15, and iPad 10th generation)
Thanks
Thanks for adding the ping pong option.
Outstanding!
Beyond obvious comparisons with some other sampler apps, this one is a heavyweight all on its own terms. The ability to host AUv3’s internally makes it a perfect sound design/loop maker app, for starters (the big Render button isn’t buried in submenus here.)
When you host a sampler inside a sampler wonderful, unusual things can happen… that’s all I’ll say without giving away too much. ;)
Would love to see a bit more stability - occasionally sessions with two or more AUv3’s inside will cause it to crash.
Big Up to the developer!
When you host a sampler inside a sampler wonderful, unusual things can happen… that’s all I’ll say without giving away too much. ;)
Would love to see a bit more stability - occasionally sessions with two or more AUv3’s inside will cause it to crash.
Big Up to the developer!
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