Reel vs EP

Most recording apps feel like software. Reel feels like hardware. Reel is a multitrack tape-style field recorder in your pocket. Record your hardware jams, capture ideas in the rehearsal room, a live gig, collect sounds out in the field, digitise your vinyl or catch the moment inspiration hits. Connect your interface, hit record and capture it before it's gone. The disc spins. The transport clicks. Rewind ramps up the way tape actually does. Every interaction is physical, immediate, satisfying. Less time looking, more time listening. THE DISC. The large central reel is the heart of the app. Drag to scrub. Flick it and it spins with real momentum. Scratch it and it sounds like tape pulled across a head, wind and all. Nothing else on the App Store feels like this. RECORDING. This is what Reel is for. Record one track or all four at once. Punch in a fix, overdub on top, record in reverse or let a take wait and start at your first sound. Count in with the click or roll free with no grid. QUICK RECORD. Inspiration doesn't wait. Press the Action Button, tap the Control Center button or ask Siri and Reel opens already rolling. FOUR TRACKS. REAL WORKFLOW. Reel works like tape, not a DAW. Capture your whole setup in one take, up to four tracks at once from a multichannel interface. Then work the tape one track at a time: punch in a fix or overdub a new part without touching the rest. When all four are full, bounce down to one and keep layering. Reel is tape the way it works, not tape the way it sounds: the source lands clean and professional grade, ready for your DAW, sampler or a real tape machine. THE LOOPER. Set a length in bars and the take ends itself on the bar and loops. Hit record mid-loop and the next take waits for the top, records one pass and drops in. Build a song one layer at a time. TEMPO AND BARS. A metronome with any time signature, count-in, a visual beat and a bars timeline. The click follows the tape, even when you scrub. CUE POINTS. Drop a marker anywhere and jump back instantly. Name, reorder and preview them or play them from pads on your controller. THE MIXER. The mixer slides up over the reel. Per-track meters, level, pan, mute, solo, monitoring and input gain for record levels. Real fader feel, with haptics. Mixes save per project and print on export. PITCH AND SPEED. Speed and pitch move together, like tape. Lock the disc anywhere from quarter speed to four times or snap to real semitones. Record over a sped-up take, bring it back down and your new part plays deep and slow. It plays backwards too. MASTER RECORD. Print your performance as you play it. Arm it and it starts at the first sound: every stop, scrub and pitch move goes down live to its own recording. Resample the master straight onto a track and keep building. MIDI AND ABLETON LINK. Start, stop and record in sync with drum machines, samplers and grooveboxes. Map any MIDI controller to Reel's controls over USB or Bluetooth. With Ableton Link, Reel shares tempo and downbeat with Live and every Link app on your network. WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR. Plug in an OP-1 Field and it maps itself: 8 channels across 4 tracks. Plug in a Focusrite, Zoom, or MOTU and record at native quality up to 96kHz and 32-bit. Each track can flow out its own stereo pair, 10 channels into a real mixer. No drivers, no setup, no laptop. No interface? No problem. The built-in mic handles voice, acoustic instruments, and room recordings, with Studio Vocal Mode to clean up imperfect spaces. DJ MODE. Flip the disc into a turntable. It slows under your touch, and pitch bends like a deck instead of a tape machine. Your recordings become the record. YOUR FILES. NO LOCK-IN. FULL PRIVACY. Export WAV, AIFF or M4A to your DAW, AirDrop, social apps or to the cloud. Import audio to any track, even from a video. Shares carry your pitch, loop, and mix, so what you hear is what you send. Organize with color-coded tags. Your sessions stay on your device or iCloud. No account required.

EP-PatchStudio builds sample kits and multisamples for Teenage Engineering's EP-series samplers, then sends them to your device over USB. It also backs up your projects and lets you manage the samples on your device from your iPhone or iPad. If you own an EP-133 K.O. II, EP-1320 Medieval or EP-40 Riddim, you know the squeeze: great sounds, a tiny screen and a slow road from a sample on your phone to a pad on your sampler. This app is the shortcut. Import audio, trim it, build a kit and load it onto the hardware. CHOP A BREAK INTO HITS Open a drum break and Chop Sample slices it by transients, into equal parts or to a grid. Keep the strongest 8 and they land on the pads, named and ready to play as an EP-40 kit. You can also turn them into a multisample or save them as separate WAV files. Free. ROOM FOR MORE SOUNDS On a K.O. II, Fit More makes a sample mono, lowers the rate and, where the pitch allows it, turns on Double Speed, in one tap. Undo puts it back. Free. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Import WAV and AIFF from Files, iCloud Drive or another app through the share sheet • Trim, fade, loop and tune samples by touch, in one-shot, key or loop mode • Create multisamples for the EP-40 Riddim, mapped across the keyboard • Normalise, trim and rename a whole batch of samples in one pass • Browse, preview and replace the samples on your device in the File Manager • Back up your device and keep every backup in a library you can restore from • Open a project to see its pads and patterns on a timeline, then export MIDI, stems or an Ableton Live set WORKS WITH • EP-133 K.O. II • EP-1320 Medieval • EP-40 Riddim Multisamples are for the EP-40 Riddim. No hardware to hand? You can still build and edit, then send it over when you plug in. FREE AND PRO The Sample Editor, Chop Sample and Fit More are free, with no ads and no account. Connecting your EP and checking its storage are free too. Pro adds sending to your device, the File Manager, the Batch Processor, backups, the Project Viewer and the Project Library. Every Pro tool is open for 14 days after you install, with no sign-up. After that, Pro is a one-off in-app purchase. Buy once, no subscription. Already bought EP-PatchStudio on Mac or Windows? Enter your licence key to unlock the same here. A NOTE FROM ME I'm a solo developer and a sampler nerd. I built EP-PatchStudio because I wanted grown-up software for these little machines, and I keep improving it based on what the community asks for. If something is missing or broken, tell me. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering AB. EP-133 K.O. II, EP-1320 Medieval and EP-40 Riddim are trademarks of Teenage Engineering AB, used here only to describe compatibility.