Koala Pocket Sampler App FULL Tutorial 

That’s awesome and many thanks 🙏

Lol I know @Patrick Bodine I bought 500+ dollar Maschine Mk3, basically to do what I do with Koala , about year prior ! Ah , well, we live , learn, and bite the bullet !

I know right, sitting in front of it on the floor with the manual and a series of floppy discs and LOVING IT!! How time and memory flies! now I have a 1TB ssd that is smaller than an Apple Magic Mouse!!

You're very welcome and glad it helped. 👍🏻

Definitely give them the feedback on their website 👍🏻

Glad it was helpful! I appreciate that so much 🙏

Thats a gooood question!

JohnPaul Music UK it’s not a question, it can be done.

Wow! Cool but weird!

Many thanks 🙏

Hey Mike. Awww thanks 🙏 Haha. Should I release it or use It in a bigger song then? Hehe. The app has had some improvements since making this video. Hope you enjoy. 👍🏻

Haha wow! That’s a compliment. I’ll take that! Thank you. 🙏

Glad you enjoyed it

You are very welcome 🙏🏻

Hey 👋 Your gonna HATE my answer - it depends. It totally depends on what you want to do. If you want to trigger pre-recorded stuff then sampling is the way to go, if you want to record and “loop” yourself live, then.. well.. looping is the. Way to go. They are separate things but there are some blurred lines. For me.. I have gigged and made money with the looper app on my phone and the same with hardware. I know lots of musicians who have boss pedals - and I know loads who use an app on their phone or iPad - it’s down to some serious preferences on what you want your setup to be and HOW you want it to be and what you want it to do. Hardware wise - checkout the Aeros Loop Studio (amazing new loop pedal) - Headrush Looperboard (that’s what I have now and is a monster that outdated Boss IMO) - TC-Helicon Voicelive Touch 2 or voicelive 3 and of course the boss RC range or if you want a simple one phrase looper, Boss ve-8, ditto, RC-1, there are loads.. I’ve even seen some amps now that have a 30sec one phrase looper built in! Software / app wise look at - LoopyHD, Quantiloop, AudioKit L7 looper, Again IMO they are the top three Loop apps but the list goes on.. My best advice is figure out what you want to loop wether it is a guitar, voice, keyboards etc or a mixture and then figure out how many phrases or loops you need or want and then look at what is out there based on your budget. The great thing about the apps are they are really cheap in comparison to hardware loopers however you then end up spending more money on things like foot controllers or extra equipment to make that work. Hardware is more expensive initially but then they normally have more control and less set up time but can be limiting due to lack of firmware updates. Sorry this response is long but I wanted to give you my full in-depth view. Get a piece of paper and a pen sketch out what you want your setup to look like. Hope this helps 👍🏻

@@JohnPaulMusicUK I was expecting the "it depends" but not all the rest, so I actually absolutely LOVE your very detailed answer. Thank you so much for taking the time to summarise and advise, it definitly helps. Thanks again.

You’re welcome. There’s so much out there and happy to talk about it.. its my passion. 👍🏻

Double tap into the recorded piano icon - in the middle sequence section

Awesome. Thanks 🤩

You are more than welcome 🙏 Have a look at this playlist- ru-vid.com/group/PLO36LpORUSaa2hQEKtoW-FyuhOBCwlfRs

That would be a great addition. Maybe consider email the people who develop it to see if that could be done. You never know 🤞

yea, i have tried to get it working by looping a sample/sound and put it in hold so that it keeps playing and then i try to adjust the effects and when i try to copy the sound to a new slot is when it gets weird ;)

You can by resampling!

It’s not a looping app.. it’s a sampling app. Latency.. zero.

@@JohnPaulMusicUK I'm sorry John, and please excuse my ignorance, but can you explain the difference? I appreciate your time.

No worries Yaog. A looper is a recording device where you create something by recording and then singing or playing directly in, live without stopping.. you can use a looper with sampled sounds instead of live sounds but those sounds are not normally stored in the looper.. they would come from somewhere else.. like a sampler. A sampler is where you sample snippets of sounds first and then play them or trigger them back. A sampler stores a library of your sounds to bring up and then use. In this app it also has a sequencer which is just triggering those pre recorded sounds in the order that you want by using midi commands to tell the sampler which samples it wants and when. Hope that makes sense.

You wont be able to directly pul the files from the phone into Koala but if you have a copy of the songthat has come from a computer, save them to the files app on iOS or look at pulling it from using something like audioShare (a brilliant app) and then you will be able to import them from there. If it is Apple Music or a subscription based service, then you wont be able to.

You can but not On a Apple phone

Wow.. you have so many great ideas for this app. I would suggest reach out the Koala team and see if they can bring some of those features into it on an update!

You are welcome Mack 🙏

Its great! Get in contact with eld audio and let them know. 👍🏻

ahhh the sp404.. nicely put

Welcome 🙏

Aww you are more than welcome. Yes, there is. It’s midi compliant so with the right adapter you can plug in a midi keyboard and it should understand it. 👍🏻

Your welcome - the new update makes it even better!! :-)

Yeah maybe it’s time for an updated video.

Not yet.. on my todo list. Hehe

@@JohnPaulMusicUK haha. A little something to look forward to!

Hey Son 👋 With the Volca range it’s all about 3.5mm jacks (headphone ports). What I would do it use a 3.5mm to 1/4” stereo splitter and input that into an audio interface that is connected to the iOS device. This way you get a higher quality and you can also send the signal (of koala) to speakers - you can pick up an audio interface really cheaply (around £40/£50) and just need that splitter cable.

It works on iOS, android and mac. its not currently available on Windows PC

Also sampling thru the onboard mic sounds hidious. I wont use it.

Haha. I hear ya. Was just a little tongue and cheek at the beginning showing how far weve come from dedicated hardware to basically an app on your phone.

And yeah.. I would plug in an audio interface with a mic.

Thanks 🙏

@moonbears I thought I was the only one…

So I had the same issue but how I went about it was just making sure that both sequences have the same amount of bars. Just hit the double up button if u have to. Not sure if u figured it out yet but thought I’d comment just in case.

You are welcome 🙏

I know.. i know.. 🤣 It was a little bit of a cheeky intro. 👍🏻 I know there is a-lot more to it but the S/Z range was very daunting to loads of people and for most was completely out of their grasp. BM3 is a MONSTER of an app and is amazing, no doubt or argument there. The developer of Koala Sampler is looking for constructive feedback - maybe an opportunity to add features they haven’t thought off and get it even more powerful. 👍🏻 Thanks for posting. 👍🏻

@@JohnPaulMusicUK If I would add one thing to the koalla app it would be edit/mute/solo sequence layers. Also maybe a couple of FX sends for reverb and delay per pad.

Awesome! Let them know here : www.elf-audio.com/contact.php Tell them I sent you. 👍🏻

This is better

Thanks 🙏

No problem!

Yes the app can be used completely offline. 👍🏻

Thanks for letting me know Mike. I’ll look at getting it resolved for the next video. 👍🏻