Koala Sampler

In-app purchases
4.5
1.94K reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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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
22 Jul 2024

Data safety

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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
1.78K reviews
The other Tony Dutch
22 May 2023
App is great but I really miss a handsfree recording mode. Edit 01: Great, I thought it was odd for it to be missing,turns out it wasn't missing at all! Edit 02/03: I no longer had access to the samurai upgrade after changing my phone! Got an immediate fix from the dev after contacting them! C:
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elf audio
18 November 2020
Hi Ja, thanks! - you can record handsfree if you go into the settings and disable "hold to record" - then the pads should work as toggles. If you still need help with that, please get in touch here: https://www.elf-audio.com/contact.php
The original
2 September 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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Deebee Kay
17 September 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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What's new

You can now set the midi channel used for keyboard mode.
Other small tweaks
Fixes bugs with recording and resampling