Comparison

Delay Line vs Ohms Sample

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Delay Line

This audio effect app offers a high-quality digital delay with smooth parameter control for musical echoes. It's designed to add depth and space to your sound without unwanted noise.

Highlights
  • High-quality digital delay
  • Smooth parameter interpolation
  • Feedback control
  • Musical echoes
  • Linear interpolation for delay time
  • Comprehensive parameter smoothing
Features
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A high-quality digital delay effect with smooth parameter interpolation and feedback control. This delay provides clean, musical echoes perfect for adding depth and space to your audio. The delay uses linear interpolation for smooth delay time changes and includes comprehensive parameter smoothing to eliminate zipper noise during real-time parameter adjustments.

About

Ohms Sample

Transform any sound into a playable instrument and a generative music creation tool. This app offers a unique interface for slicing, looping, and manipulating audio, with advanced features for creating complex sonic textures and rhythms. It supports MIDI input and external hardware for expanded control.

Highlights
  • Touch instrument creation from any sound
  • Generative audio weaving with weighted routes
  • Advanced slicing, looping, and tape scrubbing
  • Up to 128 grain voices with extensive control
  • Resonant filtering, delay, and reverb effects
  • MIDI controller and Launchpad hardware support
  • Local audio capture and indexing
Features
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Ohms Sample turns any sound into a touch instrument and a generative loom. It is native on macOS and iPadOS, with all audio kept on your device. ONE PLAYABLE SURFACE * Orbit, Pulse steps, Mutation gestures, trigger pads, and a collapsible snapshot bank share one large instrument view; only Take opens a separate workspace. * Reweave sits beside transport and redraws the visible routes as it changes them. * Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance. PLAY AND EDIT * Slicer taps the waveform; Looper compresses a two-finger loop into grain; Tape scrubs speed and direction; Keyboard plays one slice chromatically. * Scroll and zoom the PCM-derived Sample Canvas from 1× to 8×. * Select a range, cut it or keep only it, reverse it, and apply pitch-preserving stretch from 50% to 200%. * Restore the untouched source at any time. * Detect and drag up to 16 transient-aware slices, with tune, volume, pan, attack, release, reverse, and loop per slice. WEAVE THE ORBIT * Draw weighted routes between the sample's circular slice arcs. * A seeded engine walks those weights while the live playhead makes every choice visible. * Run a 1–64 step Pulse lane, each step with its own openness. * Arm four weighted Mutation gestures per slice: stutter, reverse, speed, and scratch. * Morph across a 3×4 snapshot bank and punch in with four manual trigger pads. GRAIN AND EFFECTS * A preallocated native Swift engine renders up to 128 grain voices with position, size, density, pitch, jitter, reverse probability, and stereo spread. * Add resonant low-pass or high-pass filtering, feedback delay, and reverb. KEYBOARD AND MIDI * On Mac, A–P play the sixteen pads unless Sample Brain search is explicitly focused. * Generic MIDI controllers can use notes 36–51 or 60–75 for pads and 52–55 for triggers. * Learn CCs for grain, FX, and morph controls; receive and send MIDI clock; use virtual ports; and echo Orbit decisions as notes. LAUNCHPAD HARDWARE * Launchpad Mini MK3, X, and Pro MK3 get sixteen large 2×2 color blocks on Pads, plus focused Weave, Pulse, and Memory pages. * The on-screen mirror and hardware LEDs use the same direct visual language. CAPTURE SAFELY AND SEARCH LOCALLY * File and folder controls open system pickers. Sample Brain indexes any number of chosen folders for local search. * Microphone capture is armed only in Take. Finished audio stays staged beside the loaded sample until you choose Use Recording or Keep Current. * On macOS, Sample Anything can freeze the last 60 seconds of system audio from an in-memory buffer — audio only, never screen frames — with the same staged decision. EXPORT, SESSIONS, AND AUv3 * Export the edited audio as WAV, or save sample, slices, weave, mutations, snapshots, FX, and grain as a session. * The full generative engine and insert FX run sample-accurately in a macOS and iPadOS AUv3 instrument with 23 automatable parameters and host-saved state. Each instance keeps its own sample and can follow host tempo. * The AUv3 requests no microphone, file, screen-capture, or network access. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION * No account, analytics, telemetry, advertising, cloud, or network calls. * No subscription or in-app purchase. $29.99 once for macOS and iPadOS as a universal purchase. REQUIREMENTS * macOS 14 or later, or iPadOS 17 or later. Sample Anything is macOS-only; microphone recording works on both.

Screenshots

Delay Line4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Delay Line at $1.99 against Ohms Sample's $29.99. On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Delay Line costs $1.99 and Ohms Sample $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Delay Line versus Ohms Sample: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelay LineOhms Sample
Price$1.99 — better$29.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCallback Audio, LLCOmar Quddusi

Customer experience

Delay Line

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ohms Sample

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Delay Line

No in-app purchases

None

Ohms Sample

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delay Line free?
Delay Line costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ohms Sample free?
Ohms Sample costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Delay Line or Ohms Sample have ads?
Neither Delay Line nor Ohms Sample shows ads.

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