Koala Sampler

In-app purchases
4.6
2.03K reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic or load your own sounds. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!

Koala’s super intuitive interface helps you make a tracks in a flash, there is no brake pedal. You can also resample the output of the app back into the input, through the effects, so the sonic possibilities are endless.

Koala's design focuses totally on making the music making progress instant, keeping you in the flow and keeping it fun, not getting bogged down by pages of parameters and micro-editing.

"Been putting that $4 koala sampler to good use lately. Undeniably great tool that puts some of these expensive beat boxes to shame. A must cop."
-- flying lotus, twitter

* Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
* Transform your voice or any other sound with 16 superb built-in fx
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import your own samples
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
* Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
* Normal/One-shot/Loop/Reverse playback of samples
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls
* Note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard

NOTE: If you’re having trouble with microphone input please turn off "OpenSL" in Koala's audio settings.

8 Built-in Microphone FX:
* More Bass
* More Treble
* Fuzz
* Robot
* Reverb
* Octave up
* Octave down
* Synthesizer


16 Built-in DJ Mix FX:
* Bit-crusher
* Pitch-shift
* Comb filter
* Ring modulator
* Reverb
* Stutter
* Gate
* Resonant High/Low Pass Filters
* Cutter
* Reverse
* Dub
* Tempo Delay
* Talkbox
* VibroFlange
* Dirty
* Compressor

Features included in SAMURAI In-App Purchase
* Pro-quality Timestretch (4 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats and Re-pitch)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* Pocket operator sync out
Updated on
Nov 25, 2024

Data safety

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This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
1.86K reviews
Brian Lynn
November 26, 2024
Sample length changes when playing a sample with the keyboard and I don't see an option to change that 😞 Really screws things up for me. Had high hopes, but sadly, no. Refund requested. Would have been so much simpler with a demo version so I would know I wouldn't like it before I bought it. Not at all happy I had to pay to try. Paid for the Samurai version and time stretch is not great.
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elf audio
November 26, 2024
To play a sample without the length changing with pitch, you need to enable STRETCH and choose BEATS mode or another mode - if you're unsure about this, please watch the basic tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCU7gsvWNKk - Otherwise please get in touch at https://www.koalasampler.com/contact for an immediate no-questions-asked refund.
Deebee Kay
September 17, 2024
You can do so much. I have tried fl studio, flip, and many other apps. This is the best on android. Latency is good sound quality is as good as the audio you use (had a bad mic on a phone and recorded audio was so bad) can do many things a full DAW can do minus fm synthesis. Gotta get or make your out sounds but everything else this can do. Fx are aight. Just a good sampler with many thoughts out workflows
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The original
September 2, 2024
This is quite literally the best music app. If you wanted to make music and can only have one app this is all you need. It's a SAMPLER! You have a mixer, resampling, FX, piano 🎹 roll,Sequencer, time stretch, midi. like d**n😆 it's like you have a SP-404 in your pocker. paired with YouTube to mp3 you can get your ideas out and make all the music you want.
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What's new

- Fixed midi mapping not working for sample delete button
- Fixed messaging when clicking the play/pause button
- Midi Sync menu wont jump around whilst open
- BLE Midi devices can now be connected via the Midi Settings Panel
- QWERTY keyboard supports arrow keys, and recognises shift modifier
- SP404 will select patterns properly again
- Piano roll notes are more accurately drawn when zooming in very close
- fixed midi log disappearing when backgrounding
- more bug fixes