Flip Sampler

Hey I love this app, but for some reason the pattern tab is not working as designed on my iPhone 15. Clicking a pattern on the left causes the next one in sequence to be overwritten (I.e. pattern 2 becomes a copy of 1 when I just trigger 1 by tapping to play it), and as I switch between patterns on the left in this way it is also adding them to the song sequence unavoidably (and thus changing the song sequence without me wanting to). Any idea what could help solve this? Feels like a laptop with a function key lock on or something…

Didn't get how to edit samples in patterns at first (individually through the keyboard icon) but since I do I feel this app is very complete and very awesome indeed. Worth all ten dollars. Thanks for creating it!

Flip is the kind of app I was looking for on my Ipad to make music. The current toolset allows for a fluent interaction after getting used to. My advise is to watch the video by Andrew Huang to know each feature and prevent wasting time by not utilizing each trick. On version 1.0.4 (71) there might be a bug where the chords in the arrangement trigger the last chord when playing from the start, If the same pattern is next to each other. Creating extra overlap that isn’t desirable.

This is the app i have been looking for. Freedom to record own samples and a nice user interface. There are some problems however. When I am busy with the note editor has the app a tendency to crash. This is very unfortunate, however I heard that this is going to be fixed. The only thing holding me back from giving this the full 5 stars, are the default songs that keep reappearing, even if you delete them! Very annoying. Please get an update out that doesn’t put those songs back. Those problem aside. Great job! This is what a daw on a phone should look like.

Awesome and intuitive music making app. Would be nice to record the FX automations to a pattern. But holy hell what a powerhouse of an app.

Flip keeps crashing on my iPhone 11 running IOS 14.2.... but looks like a very promising app.

Before the release of this app, koala was my go-to audio app for when i was bored. But controls weren’t that great. 5 minutes with Flip felt like coming home! Amazing stuff!

Im really enjoying the workflow on this app. It has great ton of features to mess around with and importing sounds is a breeze 🙏🏼. Although it has crashed a few times, making me lose all my progress on a song. I’m currently using an iPhone XR with iOS 14.

Flip can definitely be used to make some great beats. It’s logically laid out, intuitive to learn, generally fun to use, and can do a lot, despite being limited to 9 sample pads (unlike the multiple banks of 16 pads each on an app like the IMPC). The help function is very useful and well-implemented. I love this thing overall, and it’s easier to use than the IMPC, but it does have some areas where operation can be frustrating and could be improved. I don’t know how feasible it’d be to have separate mixer settings, FX settings and samples for each pattern within a program, but it’d be highly useful and much appreciated. I can live without that, though. Limitations can breed creativity. More importantly, I’ve found the multitrack tape recorder and stem export functions to be buggy—which is frustrating, because they’re also incredibly useful for getting the sequences into a DAW as a multitrack session…when they work right. My stem tracks have randomly come out incomplete and different lengths (or with no sound) for no apparent reason; then when I try again with the same settings, everything renders perfectly and with matching lengths. Nasty clipping distortion also happens much more easily on rendered tracks than is audible when listening in the mixer; I’ve often had to re-render stems several times in a row, with elements of the mix turned down more and more, before I could get a clean result. The app also seems to have crashed on me a couple times, but it’s constantly autosaving, which is a fantastic feature that helps make crashes much less frustrating. Despite the sometimes annoying drawbacks, this app is fantastic value and I’d recommend it. Just be aware that it’s seemingly not perfect. Hopefully the stuff I describe will be fixed (or it’s all just the result of me doing something wrong). The app’s definitely still fun and useful overall.

I want to love this app. Typically it’s a great tool for improvising & sketching out melodies & percussion ideas. But there’s unfortunately too much inconsistency & bugs with sample recording. Half the time it works great - I hit the record button & hum a note or make some sort of drum sound with my mouth & flip automatically find the starting point. But more often it seems to just be latching onto a bit of noise (according to the waveform) or sometimes the waveform looks correct, but it just won’t play back my recording at all. Not sure if this is just a problem for me or if it’s a common occurrence. Other than that bug it’s usually a great & fun app.