your "complex chords; both hands" comment made me laugh out loud...... KOALA is pretty good considering the price and all the upgrades... I use it quite frequently.
“But I use a computer at work”😂😂😂 In all honesty,Koala is fantastic and old intel MacBook Airs are so cheap,100-150$ plus a second hand midi controller is around 50$ or less.And mixing could be done in GarageBand for free.99!This is coming from someone who has a bit of hardware 😊.Keep up the great work!
I thought you were going to say mpc beats software lol. I use koala on my android phone and my iPad. I wish I could get the windows version to work on Linux through wine
Can I use the laptop keyboard as MIDI keyboard without get a MIDI keyboard? And if I able to get the Apple education bundle to get Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and so on, should I or just use free DaVinci and Koala?
To each one his own. After I learnt about MPC Key 37, I bought the bigger brother - MPC Key 61. Now it is just over 1200 Euro at Thomann. I have been working with DAWs for over 30 years, since the early days of Cubase. But to have everything in one place: sampler, autosampler, good quality keybed, multiple tactile controllers, great quality AC/DC converters, DAW with very sensible looping, quantizing etc. is just extremely useful for me. I can use it both to record in the studio and for live performance. I don't trust software-based DAWS and VSTs for the latter purpose. They are too prone to crashes and unreliable behaviour. I just don't have time on stage to figure out what's wrong this time: is it the sound card, is it the latest update of OS that mangled the audio driver, is it antivirus which has decided to do a full system scan or maybe the OS itself that is using all the resources to index my files or install some new bloatware. With hardware based solutions I simply don't have such issues. On the other hand, when I am out of my place, I just take my 25-key AKAI Mini keyboard and a laptop and continue working on projects in the evenings if I still have some time left. So for portability, yes - a laptop with a couple of apps/VSTs is very sensible. And yes, the 2GB RAM limitation (and not upgradeable) in MPCs in 2024 is just ridiculous.
Thank you for your video. Different then all these youtuber that do the same thing all the time to sell us gear. 1- theaser; open your eyes the biggest possible Put both hands on your head Open your mouth wide ( thats the pictures for your teaser ) 2- Title : my new favorite synth, pedal or whatever you have to sell 3- Be convincing ; The company send me this device for free but they don’t know i am doing a video on it and have nothing to say about the content of this video 4- Link; in the same time, be sure you put a link to sell the device 5- Be sure you put a very good performance with the device, like that everybody will think the talent come with the device 😂😂😂😂
Amazing video indeed ahaha, when i click on one of yours i know i'm always in for at least a good laugh, plus some valuable advices and methods ! My G.A.S is worse than yours. Instead of neatly letting the new gear sleeping inside of it's package, I unpack it, expose it in the studio, let the dust settle in. Never powering it up except when friends are coming and I want to show off (oh look at all these blinking leds...). Then, when i want to sell the gear, it's all fucked up because of the dust and because it hasn't been used. Then, I have to open it and clean everything, sometimes even replacing faders and switches so I can sell it. Maaaan... This gas is so tiresome !
I kinda want 2 mpc ones, but I only need 1. I'd like all the Roland SPs, but I only need the 404mkII. I'd like the mpcx but I only need the one. gas is a terrible thing.
An expensive music computer with only 2 gigs of ram, my cell phone has 12 gigs of ram, built in speaker, with usb I can have multi channel audio and midi control.
even better when you use a cheap wired midi controller like oxygen/nektar 25 keys, 8 pads, 8 knobs, you get the finger drumming and assign all the performance tools via midi!
It's incredible how Koala sampler is one of the most sought after. I also recommend GarageBand, which has a very good sampler for sampling and with many things from apple loops that I consider could be substitutes for the akai loops and some virtual things on a tablet are simply superior on my 4GB ram iPad Air under iOS. The keyboard can be any that has USB with a USB-C adapter, really GarageBand is another of my great tools, when it comes to creating new ideas, beatmeking and finger drumming. Thanks for this video, I'm also happy to have Koala Sampler and not spend a lot of money on a plastic keyboard with a touch screen and 2GB ram on a raspberry. 😅😅👍👍
apples 2 oranges.....NOT EVEN CLOSE...this shyt seem comical AT BEST....uAINT NO WAY u takin that setup 2a BIG studio...THIS is the diffrence between amature & PROs.....carry on..
Actually I did compare Akai's stem feature with Koala using the same sample, it truly is better than koala, especially for vocal, akai's result is cleaner.
Koala Sampler stem separation is trash 😂😂 you still hear vocals on the instrument and the instruments sometimes sounds washed out like layers are missing
Hi Michael. I am wondering what you think of Elektron products. I own a few, so I am obviously a bit biased. If you ever get the chance to have a play on one, go for it. See if you get on with the sequencer, and if you find free ways to replicate this on pc, I will be very impressed. Wishing you good times.
You do it again! I’ve been messing with dawn beat and figure for a long time on the latter for inspired sketching, but I do prefer tactile, real control over hardware. But I just have my pieces and it’s more than enough.
hey playpm great vid, could you do a GAS Therapy on Mike Dean Building a Track Is Analog Synth Mayhem (on RU-vid), I thought this would be pretty fun and intresting if you could pull it off your way? and you would be helping a fellow poor musician from selling his kidneys looool keep up the great work
Appreciate, I forgot the details, I just tune things by ear, but you can actually get the project on my Patreon, you'll get everything including each sample and fx settings.
I'm still in KOALA heaven Michael. Muchos gracias and buenos nachos 4 friendly dragonzZz . The sampler plates are muy delicioso amigo. My Chihuahua thanks you also
I like Koala, and I'm helping Marek with the Android version (should give him that update for the navigation bar now). However, MPC has plug-in support and ready-to-release quality, so it's not comparable.
Appreciate your work! I only wish Android can get all the keyboard shortcuts working just like iOS, currently the shift+tab to navigate pages back, left/right to navigate pad banks and double up sequence are still missing 🥹
@@playpmOK, I put this on my to-do list. My current list: 1. navigation bar fix (shouldn't appear on every tap, I got it working on my own apps) 2. browsing SMB files by using the internal Koala file browser (I already got NAS access for all my samples (highly suggested 👍), but Koala currently uses the external Android file browser) 3. Ableton export (because that's my DAW 🙂) 4. your keyboard short cuts (I've never connected a keyboard, so let's see, maybe it's a quick fix)
Thanks for bringing Koala sampler to my creative world and continuing to share the joys of using it! It has made portable my musical workflow and you always seem to develop it's integration effectively... Lots of love to you Michael!
I’ve tried to get into the mpc workflow but I don’t know why I even bothered. I already have fl studio which is a million times better. So I’m selling my mpc. Good riddance