IMPC for iPhone App Reviews

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Nice App, Ruined By Lack of Audiobus!. What the heck is wrong with Retronyms and Akai. Have they not seen videos of millions of musicians using Audiobus to allow various music apps to be used seamlessly together to create powerful music? Have they not realized that iMPC could exponentially more powerful (and popular) when combined with other apps. , especially the new ultra powerful synth. apps? I realize that they feel their Tabletop app. competes with Audiobus and they want it to be an all-in-one, self-contained app., but that is not a wise strategy. For one, the the standalone synth. and effects apps. are far superior to the ones in Tabletop, after all, they were developed by the likes of Korg, Waldorf, Propellerhead and Moog to name a few. Second, Tabletop itself would benefit from having Audiobus. It has neat features, is fun to use, but can't do everything. Audiobus integration would solve that. Finally, customers want to have a choice in how we create music. We don't want to be confined to the limitations imposed by a company's marketing strategy.

Needs AudioBus compatibility. What's stopping this app from being a great app? 1. AudioBus. ADD THIS. NOW!!! I can't explain how disappointed I was when I bought AudioBus to discover I could use all of my apps, except for this one. This was a huge blow and a setback. 2. Song Mode Tracks, progs, and seqs are cool and are all present as they should be, but no Song Mode. It makes it extremely hard to organize everything and/or make complete tracks ready to go. 3. Better editing. 4. Really needs better touch response. I find myself full of anxiety trying to rename things or add new tracks/kits. 4. Import folders. iTunes forces you to import sounds individually. I just want to drop folders in so my drum kits can be organized. I don't want a giant list of sounds to browse thru, it's just counterproductive. There's a ton of bugs, glitches and app breaking hiccups. So much potential I hope you guys don't let it go to waste. Fix these things and you will have a five star app that will satisfy all music makers and otherwise.

Not bad but has potential. It works well with my MPD218(if there was a better way to connect hardware + software w/o having to hold the note repeat button while plugging it in that'd be super cool). Also there are crashes every now and then when you edit the sounds in your kit. Would also be nice to have a few extra effects implemented in like reverbs, stretching and other stuff for sure. Would also be fantastic to implement some type of automation feature to control pitch, parameters of the effects. Also, maybe a way to export stems? But pretty cool overall!!! Again, has a lot of potential.

Please fix this. I need you to, very badly.. I love this app i really do man but the app keeps crashing and deleting sounds off beats. Please update (more often) bc the last one didn’t help at all. I don’t want to lose all of my work bc of a faulty app. :/ i know y’all can do better

When it works it’s great. The app crashes constantly but other than that there isn’t a single thing I can complain about.

Do not buy. The app does not work properly with the iphoneXs Max. It takes multiple tries to slide the tabs on the left and right. It’s pretty unusable, I wish we could get impcPro 2 ported to the the iPhone.

I really really wish they put a note pad sequence. I make a beat.. It's dope.. But then I have to leave the app (which causes the music to stop) because I want to write to it in the notepad.. Or find the paper That I was writing on to continue which I don't really want to do.. Throws me off from writing to the beat initially.. If there was a notepad assigned to every sequence.. That would be so dope.. I wouldn't have to figure where my raps are because I specifically wrote to that sequence.. I don't know about making apps but I figure that would be too tough to add in there

Amazing App. thank you so much for updating! I use this to make beats when I'm on the road all the time. it's still not easy to swipe sideways for different menus (it only works when I use my pointer finger and drag the tiny area that has hatch marks specifically), if this function were made easier it would be much easier to navigate the menus. thanks again for this amazing tool of creativity!

Best $3 I've ever spent. I own an mpc 2000xl and the production feel of this app is familiar but different. The turntable mode is cool. This app is not a fully featured DAW but if you are sitting at a bus stop or waiting for some tacos this will absolutely keep you entertained. This app is versatile enough I could see myself plugging my phone into my dj rig. If you are serious about your production you will spend more than a few bucks on an app and think you're the next amp live but for what it does impc is totally worth it.

Lame app; AKAI doesn’t care. The sounds are pretty good, but the app is useless. No Audiobus, IAA or anything that allows this app to be used as anything other than a standalone app. A company like AKAI should have the resources to update this app, but they seemingly don’t care to bring it up to par.

Hasn’t been updated. This is vastly out of date. UI is very bad.

DRM protected songs can not he played unless upgrading.. I have songs that apple and no one else owns the rights to they are mine. They wont work and i can’t play them in this app. This app is ok but as far as an update goes the turntable feature Will definitely need updating so that people who own the rights to their music (and music that wasn’t purchased in the app store) works correctly.

Love this app but it no longer works properly on newer iPhones. Please update.. Love this app more then the impc pro just because it looks like a real MPC but it's lacking some features. Please update and add the ability to use more then 4 tracks. It would be great to be able to make more chops then one at a sample. Plus it would be nice to have an option to EQ in the effects. Excellent app for the price but I would have paid more for some extra features. Thank you keep up the great work!

Seems great but. The app seems great but a few bugs keep me from being able to use it at all. The menu from the right won't fully appear when I slide it out. Instead, there's just half the menu and a big white space. It seems like a small issue, but it stops me from using most of the real capabilities of the app because I can't use important menu buttons. Other than that, the clickable part of each pad seems off by a touch, I have to click in the space between them to use the left half, which interferes when trying to do live recording (very important to the app because there's no timeline or arrangement view). The app seems great, and earlier reviews make it look highly useable. If these bugs were to be fixed I'd anticipate my review to be a five, but I have to hold back right now because I can't actually record any beats. Hoping for an update soon that fixes these issues on my iPhone 5s!

Everything is good but this....... I love that fact that you can sample songs and them remix them and so on and so forth, but Apple slammed the DMR on all of my Apple Music songs. It is much harder to sample the music that I want very quickly, and it is frustrating and time consuming. I would like for us to be able to load music from other apps like the Apple iCloud files, documents, etc. All from my iPhone. Besides that: The app is great! Good quality, easily accessible, and very fun!

This app is USELESS. Needless to say I'm a huge fan of the MPC series since the Roger Linn series. I'm also in to the current hardware that has been provides for the new digital age of music making while keeping the feel of the original MPC hardware in mind . -- with that said this app is big disappointment & I actually noticed after I purchased it that it hasn't been updated in years. I would like my money back actually. This is an embarrassment on your companies behave to not take in consideration the fast paced evolution of digital music making on the go. -- what I thought would have been a convenient app to get rough ideas down turns out to be an app that crashes whenever you attempt to sample from your iPhone music library. It's a shame that you guys do not take your loyal costumer base in mind. Get it together because now in discouraged from even buying actual hardware from Akai if you put out a products that don't offer support or updates. Yours Truly, A VERY DISAPPOINTED CUSTOMER

Great App. I love this app. It works great.

🚨🚨🚨. Please add a way to delete samples right from the app we all don’t have computers

Not that great. I don’t like that it keeps running in the background and you have to manually close it. No way to string sequences together either.

App not working right on iOS 12!. Since updating to iOS 12 I haven't been able to use this app because every note is sustaied indefinitely. That means that every note recorded in "hold" mode acts as if I never release the pad. I have to tap it again to stop the note from holding. This momentarily retriggers the note, but cuts the sustain. It's virtually unusable like this for anything other than short little bursts of sound like snares and closed hats. PLEASE FIX!!!

Perfect sampler. 5 stars

What a joke. I’d call this app garbage but that’s an insult to trash. I bought the app and I can’t even delete the stock sounds that are wack as hell. I want to scrap everything on it and sample all my sounds. Why is that so unnecessarily difficult? lewl 1 star since I can’t give zero

iPhone X -constant crashes. Crashes in the middle of playing, I can’t use this for a performance at all. Akai should be ashamed to put their name in this

a disgrace. this has no relation to the workflow of an mpc, it is just drum pads with stock samples and a sad excuse for a workstation

There is something wrong. This app became useless. The sound is glitchy and it crashes.

Cool drum sampler. awesome classic look and feel and easy to use and has tons of built in sounds !

Well it works in 2022. Review said no sound it’s got sound seems to be fully working. Like the old school akai flavor so 5 stars.

Crashes figured out!!. Ok first of ... this is a fun app but it is limited. But for the price... I am happy. This app never crashed on me (owned 2years) until I recently tried to upload a beat to sound cloud. Now it crashes unless I turn off all internet activity ... cellphone data or wifi. Maybe the developers will read this and check into it. I do sound production for SunSlice records and this a fun bus stop or restaurant pass time. I have made some interesting beats by digging into the self sampling and delays. It not the most intuitive but neither is the MPCs it's mimicking. I think anybody expecting something more for $3 may be busting the developers balls a bit here. They give you plenty for what it is. I do like. I own the iPad version too which is more robust. But if you dig a bit ... you can make some pretty decent beats with this app. Sincerely Craig Steven SunSlice Records

I love this app but.... there seems to be a bug where the bpm are waaaaay offf. I have to use a metronome and compare the tempos in order to set it right because it can be up to 10bpm (give or take) off. I would use it for church rhythm loops, but the tempo issue is really wack. I don’t want to use iMPC Pro 2 because it can’t transition smoothly between sequences from different songs without having to exit out and load the next like an actual MPC1000, for example.

Great potential, but limited. **Updating my review since the most recent app update. I lowered my rating to 2 stars. When are they going to listen to their customers!!! Still no interapp audio or Audiobus support. The exporting of beats still has dead space at the end of the beat making it loopable only if you trim it. This app is still no match for iMaschine....it could be...the iPad version is much better, but the iPhone version gets tossed...what a shame.** This app is a solid drum machine, second in sounds only to iMaschine. However, I wish iMPC worked better in the iPhone. They give the iPad version all these sweet updates and the iPhone version gets neglected. I contacted support for the app and they promise Audiobus and inter app audio is on the way, but time just ticks away...no cool update yet. All iMPC can do for the iPhone is work as a sketch pad...if you try to export a beat it does not export it as a loopable rhythm and if you export to AudioCopy the sound gets all distorted...they dropped the ball for iPhone use 😕🤔

This app is a hit or miss. Now the update is out why do I have to pay full price? It should be an upgrade price for current users. What’s even worse is I am a MPC X owner, this should have free to begin with??? Smh Akai not cool....

Don’t even bother. I should have just went past this and found another app.

Sampling issue. I can’t sample anything in my library that’s affiliated with Apple Music. I have the Documents app with tons of songs in there but I just wanna access it! Please fix this!

Needs More Guidance. I love the sounds on this app and it’s been pretty cool so far. I would however though want you guys to let us be able to send the loops we make to ourselves whether it be through email, messaging , etc. I’ve found it really hard to send drum loops I’ve made to myself and since i play guitar on FL (don’t have the things to record on my phone) i need to be able to send the loops from this app to my hard drive or Dropbox. Please make it compatible with newer apps and things such as email, iMessage, etc.

IMPC. I like it but it could of been better but my favorite is the sampler but need to learn how to control it

Fun but VERY buggy. So many bugs and glitches, especially when switching between pages or menus. Still a fun app and enjoyable when it works. This app definitely deserves more love from the developers, but I doubt we will see any more updates for it. Too bad since it has great potential to be a good MPC on the iPhone. Keeping my hopes up though :) I will still mess around with it until I get fed up from all the bugs... I'm glad i also have the IMPC Pro on my iPad which recently got updated and became lot more stable. Hopefully a pro version will make it to the iPhone with less bugs than this one.

Impc pro. Can we get an updated app....please

What happened?. Hold mode has stopped working since the last update. When I record it plays back the sample as if it’s set to one shot. Used to have a lot of fun with this but it’s pretty lame that hold mode doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Do not buy. This app crashes constantly when editing programs. If you are going to use this to make music think again. You’ll spend half of your time saving and reloading. Steer clear and just buy a MPC.

Doesn’t work with iPhone X. Can’t slide to change windows. Just sticks in the pre programmed beats window. Waste of money!!!

cool app, but it doesn’t work with my bluetooth headphones. outside of this problem, the app is alright, but the fact that i get this weird sound when and only when my bluetooth headphones are connected is really disappointing and annoying. does anybody have a solution? this is beyond frustrating.

no sound on iphone 13, ios 15.1.1. yup, no sound, tried both air-pods and speaker: nada

All of the sounds are rubbish. Str8 hogwash of sounds. None of the sound effects motivate you to want to make a beats. Everything’s sounds so dry and limited

I want my money back. It’s a waste of time no way to record. The beats are wack it’s a waste of my time and I want my money back

Dissatisfied. The app would not allow me to overdub in real time. The action and response of the app is very poor.

One thing. iMpc is perfect for new producers. it’s simple yet gives what you need. my only problem is that since i’m making sample based beats, i need a wide source of samples. the only two things you can use to sample on impc is audio copy which is garbage or your own music library. in garage band you can upload from your own iphone files. if impc could do the same it would be near perfect. also giving the option to delete samples would be great

Useful and fun in so many ways. With impc I was able to show my son, he is 9 and has developed an interest in making music, how you can sample various instruments and create kits that can be used to make beats. It was a really cool experience and impc made it really easy to demonstrate the process for him. I was going to rate this four stars just for the fact that I couldn't figure out how to delete my unwanted samples. After emailing the retronyms team they showed me how to do it and it's not difficult, it could be easier but it's not too bad. I'm glad I bought this app. It's fun, functions well, and the fact that it helped me teach my kid something to keep him interested in music is just awesome.

Former MPC 1000 owner. Buy this app now!! I spent $1250 on my MPC and extended RAM and im actually happier with the iPhone version for 2.99 if you have ever dreamed of making music this is a great way to see if u have the will power and skills to succeed at a fraction of the cost. A lot of people buy MPCs and don't even know how to use them. The sounds that come with this app are actually cutting edge and better than my dated synths. I can just bust out and play live drum pads while I wait for my gf to get out of work. Go buy it you will be happy you did. It's only 2.99 stop being cheap

OVerall decent app. A thoughtful app with design quirks that actually make a lot of sense from a performance standpoint. (Check out the genius of the beat repeat switch). Over all as a whole through design the app has shown it's true nature as an innovation. It sounds good too especially once you mess with the compressor What I would like to see: Ability to choose the amount of pads: (the mpc 500 had 12 pads so I don't think 16 needs to be a lock in exchange for performance comfort) An option to turn off the recording click If individual pad pitch could be changed for right from 16 levels function instead of needing to reload samples and repitch them An undo function on all effects A tray that slides down from the top that takes you directly to the pads (maybe to make menu dives easier by giving a quick way straight to the performance spot I'm thoroughly surprised by this app and excited to watch it evolve the range of it's workflow

Bluetooth Issues. This app use to be so useful until suddenly I couldn’t use it with my Bluetooth. Can the developer please give us a solution to this problem?

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Don't waste your money. Crashes all the time

A little buggy but awesomely powerful. This app is fantastic, it may have a few bugs but once you know what they are they're easy enough to work around. I've put together about 15 tracks with this app involved and I must say it holds up pretty well against real gear.

Good idea, few problems.. I love: Being able to sample music that's on your phone + live sounds, the beat pads, 4 channel mixer, exporting, pitch shifting and sample library. I hate: Pressing the audio paste button makes the app crash immediately. This is a huge problem because even though I know, I still sometimes touch it, loosing everything I was working on. tracking in a song when sampling is very, very painful with the vinyl needle. Recording is just terrible; If you record and make 1 wrong note, on any track at any point, back to the start for you. There is no undo.

poor service. i have no way of knowing how to paste sounds into the app from audio copy.. this app wont show up in audio copy app and there is no instructions i can find and the web link here is dead .. pretty poor service

Good. Im really liking it! Only downfall is it crashes occasionally & always crashes when I try sharing my sequence to soundcloud. Overall my favourite beat making app so far for iPhone.

No no. Not good. Lacks almost every feature you need to make serious music. Akai... I love my MPCs... Seriously, why would you release this useless app? Why would you ruin your reputation like this? Where is the company that once built the MPC60, MPC3000... and also the 2500 and 1000? Now you just release things like this app. It's sad :(

Only for the Akai fans!. It lacks a zoom function when chopping samples. Also no auto chop function to be found, therefore chopping and assigning samples becomes very tedious. Beatmaker 2 is a much better and fully featured app. Akai - I love most of your products, but this one is a let down! Step your game up!

What do you expect?. There are a few reviews that compare this to the original, of course it's not! This is an app you use whilst killing time and has the potential to yield results. If you're buying this as a replacement to your 2000xl you're a silly duffer.

An awesome addition to iPhone Beatmaking!. This app really is awesome. It inherits all of the powerful iPad features and gains it's own unique feature called 3D Perform Mode. This uses the iPhone's gyroscope to allow you to manipulate parameters my tilting your phone. It does loose the classic Akai kit found on the iPad making it half the size. If they want 5 stars retronyms need to add Audiobus support badly! Please listen to your users Retronyms :)

Really hard to swipe and it freezes every five minutes. What I said in the title

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Worst. App downloaded fine- but no sound. Deleted and tried to re-download, and had to pay a second time for it to STILL not work. Not impressed!

Problem. The new iOS 9.0 update isn't making this app work

Endless Beat Making!!. Sweet samples,kits and effects!! Best beat maker for the iPhone! Easy to use!! Highly recommend it!! Better than iMaschine!!

Wish this worked for IOS 7.2. Every time I opened the app it crashed on me.

A great app. A great app but seems to drop rhythm. When sharing to Soundcloud parts of the sequence gets dropped as well. Be great to be able to compile a song and share it instead of sequences.

Amazing app. What a Great app is all I can say

Won't work with ios9. Won't work with ios9. Bummer. was good before that.

Plantage assuré au démarrage. Sur iPhone 4s, cette application plante. Start and Crash Start and Crash .... je vais bientôt ajouter des étoiles aux applications qui fonctionnent bien. J'en possède des milliers.. assurez-vous d'être du nombre en corrigeant ce bug.. Merci !

UPDATE!. I need a fix on the app cause everytime It freezes or the slide out screen comes out while I try to make something

Middle of the road. Good preset sounds, nice nod to the MPCs defining features with the 16 step option and note repeat. Needs a half decent sequencer editor though - iOS devices don't really allow for tactile playability and this sometimes results in redundant note stacking on overdubs etc. plus it's just nicer to have that as an option. Retronyms make good sounding effects, but the included effects feel more like an enticer to check out tabletop than a real attempt to give the iMPC a self sustaining environment. Soundcloud integration is cool but should be optional. Seeing what people just uploaded can get annoying. Lots of audio artifacts when adjusting anything.

Dear akai,. Why on earth wouldn't you make it possible to delete samples... Without being able to do so, I'm going to have a massive chunk of my phones memory dedicated to samples i will never use again..please make an update to correct this. Please. This app has so much potential to be amazing. It is a great app but things like not being able to delete samples make it impossible to fully appreciate. Also if this app had a chop shop for samples like a real mpc it would be the most amazing app ever.. So please akai review these problems I know experienced mpc users every where are asking the same thing and would be so thankful to see this app become the amazing interface it has the potential to be. Thank you

No sound. On 8 plus

Waste. Fun for 5 minutes.

Great app, just needs some updates!. App continually crashed after trying to play a particular sequence which I had accidentally changed from 4 bars to 0, just thought I should mention that. Also, this app needs more FX, the delay and bitcrusher are great, but a reverb or an EQ would be sex! The compressor is always on for all tracks which doesn't always sound good, it's also missing some pretty standard controls (Ratio, attack, threshold, knee, etc.) As much as I hate to say it, this app could use a keyboard performance option. That said, this app has easily the best looking interface I've seen, and has been my favorite app since iMaschine. Highly recommended!

One problem. Give us the option to take an external sample and chop it automatically to the 16 pads. Workflow takes way too long otherwise. Do this and this app will be a 5 star favorite for sure.

Dont spend your money on this !. What the heck Akai ?? Half of this app doesnt work 🤔 - note repeat, files transfert... ect... The app crashes a lot for nothing, its pretty useless ! You should fire you dev, and hire some new better ones 😂... Good luck with that...

.... Not working

Great. Has potential to be the best drum machine out there! Need to update for minor sound bugs, and rare crashes. Awesome sound presets. Has already earned permanent spot on my iphone.

DRM And Apple Music. Works as a drum machine but isn't reliable to use live, there's no point using as a sampler due to the drm issues with Apple music

Do not buy. It doesn't work . Download app runs but no sound will come from pressing the pads. Plus it crashes every 30 seconds. Don't waste your money tried on an iPhone 6 as well still didn't work

Awkward. For one of the best workflow hardware devices in the biz this feels incredibly awkward. Bizarre and unimaginative layout with key functions on separate screens brought on through a website style menu. There is no note repeat and swing available on the same screen for example. Why is there a bass drum four-to-the-floor that cannot be removed when recording? Really? Sounds are good but with smarter better apps out there this feels stuck in an early 90's VCR.

Would Not Recommend. Great idea, flawed execution. The app is buggy, unintuitive, and crashes! My biggest issue with it is that you CANNOT DELETE ANY SAMPLES!!! This app desperately needs a Song Mode!!! Also, if the programmer can make it easier for the edge of screen swiping for those with certain cases to access that function. With my current case I have little to know issues accessing notification and control centre, but cannot access the side screens within this app. PLEASE MAKE THE SWIPE AREA LARGER!!! I would also appreciate better and more sample chopping options, such as grid chopping. I'd also like to see a Timestretch feature added. As of right now functionality is very poor. Would like iMPC to be beyond MPC 60 status! If all these issues get addressed soon, I see no reason why this couldn't be a 5 star app. Right now it's not even worth the sale price.

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Could be better. The app definitely has problems. It will randomly crash, some features do t work, and there isn't much to do with it. It's fun just to mess around with the drums, but if I find a beat I like, I can't really record it. If I want to delete the preset track, I hit delete and delete track, but that doesn't really work. Either it will delete almost all of it, leaving some fx or something, or it wont delete it at all. There are many other problems too. I only bought this because I saw the Ableton link thing. Hopefully I will be fixed.

Great app. Great app, very helpful and easy to use with great options. One major downside that takes away 3 stars is the fact that you can't export your beats through saving them or sending them via email or text, it has to be uploaded on soundcloud. Tried messing with the mixer and different settings in between my 20 trial-uploads. Quality of exported+uploaded track isn't worth paying for the app

I like(d) it.. It was fun for a while-crashed here and there, and then stopped working all together for almost a year.... And then started working again but it still crashes (more so than ever) and the worst part - I CANT SAVE OR UPLOAD TO SOUNDCLOUD ANYMORE !!! I get an error message. Can't copy it...can't do anything to keep it. Not to mention the "app support " button next to write a review doesn't work either. 😥

Stupid People. You can make your own beat from scratch with out using the preset beats..you all are so dumb learn how to work it fools..love this app just wish for more tracks and a chop shop and this would be 100.

Talk about a waste of 3$. Yea would probably be a decent app if it didn't CRASH on launch. It's hilarious how it hasn't been updated for at least being more stable. And this isn't new, I been searching around and this has happened every time an iOS update has come up. They need to fix this fast because as it stands, this is a waste of money/space.

Basically everything you could want. Lots of included sounds, you can make samples from any song in your ipod music list, no latency! Obviously missing some things (ease of use) you would get with the real thing, but with a little extra work you can do anything.

Epic fail. Akai and Retronyms have no clue when it comes to IOS and music production. With Retronyms doing everything they can to keep this and everything they make from getting audiobus, they’ve shown us that what the user want and need are irrelevant to them. I can’t recommend this app to anyone unless they want an app that hasn’t had any updates in well over a year.

The best app ever!. I've had Akai's MPC 2000, 2000XL, MPK, and now the iMPC. It is the next generation of production "hardware." Retronyms did an awesome job of recreating the feel of the classic production console. You can create your own banks, sample audio from your phone and even get the audio files to continue your composition later on your daw of choice. I can be productive even when I'm busy! This app is definitely a game changer and worth every penny.

SO useful to have on your phone. It took me a while to figure out how to use all the features of this app. Mostly, because a phone screen is pretty small. But retronyms really did a great job of cramming this app with great stuff! There is time correct, fx, a sweet mixer, and tons of default programs to use. Can't really beat how convenient it is since it's on your phone too..

Piano notes and drum at the same time?. This app used to be awesome for what I needed it to be but lately when going to create a beat, the pad both plays a piano note and whatever other sound associated with that particular pad. So Instead of just the assigned sound for one pad (ex. Bongo, clap, finger snap, hi-hat etc) it will play a piano note AND a clap at the same time and I don't know how to turn this off as I don't know how it even can about.. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Grrr!!!. Started off good, but quickly went bad when trying to sample from my iTunes library. Everything I load plays INCREDIBLY SLOW. It's nothing to do with the pitch slider, but there's NO WAY to increase the speed to normal! What's worse is that the first time I loaded a song from my library, it played perfectly fine! Ugghhh!!! How do they NOT have a speed control along with the pitch control??? UPDATES ARE LONG OVERDUE!!!

Waste of Money. You can't do anything in this app without it crashing almost every time you want to save your work or make changes to a configuration. It would be a great little app if it worked. Also, the app support link is a bad link so you can't even report your problem through the App Store. Another app that figures that no one will complain about $2.99 so they don't bother actually putting out a good product.

iMPC. This is a great app, and doesn't seem to drain the battery too quickly either. Great sampling function, and easy to navigate. Some small sporadic hiccups, but overall a very good product.

How Do I Create A Custom Program?. The untuitiveness of this app wears thin the novelty of having an MPC on the iPhone. The "documentation" is sparse and vague on top of it! Addendum: What I was confusing for being unintuitive was actually a lack of functionality! For example, there is no song mode for arranging sequences! How do they dare include "MPC" as part of their name without song mode? You can't make chops with it. Again, it's ridiculous to name something after an MPC when frequently used features are completely missing from the app?!?! If the argument is that it is supposed to be a "sketchpad" then why not have export available to MPC2000 format instead of only MPC Software which is only available to newer MPC models? This is just a slap in the face to diehard loyal MPC users! Terrible! Conclusion: Akai should be embarrassed to even associated with this app! This app should not be called MPC in any way shape or form. It is FALSE ADVERTISING!!

Fun And Powerfully Useful!!. Just like another reviewer stated: "Best $2.99 I've ever spent! This app is a lot of fun, so much so, that you'll almost forget it's also very powerful, feature-packed and slickly designed. One of the best ways to work on your beats while on the go! If you like MPC's, you won't be disappointed!

3 stars for nostalgia. I used to love this app. now it won't even export songs properly, rendering it 100% useless. Im a rapper and beat maker and I use the app to sketch ideas and share drafts with other rappers and producers. recently I used the default 120bpm, exported to soundcloud and there is an odd second of silence at the beginning and end of 11 sec loop. changing the bpm doesn't help either. poo. seconding another users sentiment, how do I get my $ back?

Update. That update has the app crashing after you open it can't open the app at all fix it please

Not good enough!. At first it was exciting to use the app bc it had the appearance of an MPC, but it is far from that. This app is a toy. NO SONG MODE??? ONLY 4 tracks??? Also if you leave the app it crashes when opened again. Akai has revamped themselves and made better quality products after the disastrous 5000, but this is a step backwards. Very disappointed! Try Beatmaker. This app had a LONG way to go. Not to mention that it erases all my tracks from every beat I have made on the app. This is by far the worst app on the market!!!!

Update. Ive been using this app for a long time and i have made over 200 beats so far and uploaded to soundcloud but overall this app is amazing but i recently updated my iphone 5c and it closes when i go to the pencil icon which is for customizing your kit

What happened???. Was an awesome app, downloaded it on my iPad and loved it so much I paid for it again to have on my iPhone 5S with iOS 8, now after a recent update I get NO SOUND on my iPhone, tried everything, pads and pre recorded sound no longer work. What good is a music creation and that doesn't play audio?!?! I payed you guys twice bc you charge separate for iPads and iPhones when it should have been a one time payment for both and now one doesn't work, please fix so I can change my review!

Awesome but... Make the pads more sensitive on the touch screen. I don't have the luxury of an iPad & I find the response time slow on an iPhone 4 ( though I will amend this review if it performs better on iPhone 5). Audiobus support would be killer as well. Also, updates for new sound packs & you guys have one heck of an app!

It's going to be awesome.... I really believe it's going to be a real nice app to have on my iPhone 5, when I get a chance to play with it, but it keeps freezing whenever a phone call or text comes in and then I have to turn off my phone first, and then back on to get the iMPC to restart properly again... Please update soon I'm anxious to have a MPC on my phone. Thank you Swampfingaz

exporting audio; crashes. please please help. every time i try to export my audio track i recorded, it crashes. i tried to redo it and it still crashes. in fact anytime there is any kind of recorded audio even just one sound or stab for less than a bar it crashes. but a blank recording exports fine with no sound recorded at all. only when there is any type of sound/recorded track my attempt to export...crash. in need of a serious update to fix many bugs. very upset because this is a wonderful app fir music producers but simply isn't enough just to use it on my devices.

iMPC for iPhone!! AWESOME!!!. iPhone 5 64GB iOS 6.1.4 Update 2: 8/7/13 been working with the app for days now and I notice there are a few bugs; app force closing and Note Repeat not functioning all the time as well as the 16 Levels feature not functioning all the time. I must reduce a star for these bugs but I'm sure they will be fixed soon and I can then rate 5 stars again! ALSO, PLEASE add audiobus! Update1: after browsing through app, I believe apple App Store needs to make a 10 star rating system! There are definitely some treats added in the impc for iPhone and I would easily rate 10 stars! Great Job! AWESOME!!!! I've been waiting for iMPC to come to iPhone since the iPad version came out. Yesterday was my birthday and this is a nice surprise! Thank you Retronyms & Akai.

Latency issue solved.. I originally wrote a review which included a complaint about latency issues. Tapping any pad during record mode yielded about a 3/4 second delay. Solved; if you are running into this problem too, try turning Bluetooth OFF. As soon as I did this, the problem was solved. If you are going to record with this app, apparently, you cannot use a Bluetooth speaker or earphones. Wire it and it works great. The customer service link appears to be broken, but I was able to find a contact number for Akai and the rep was very helpful and is reporting the issue to the web developers. So, this review has been updated!😄👍

Very fun app. I love everything about this app. If you’re a hobbyist or a professional, this is the app for u. My only complaint is that my app gets stuck once u get to the “Tc view.” Fix that issue and we got a 5 star app

Crashes on Startup. App looks good... (in the rare event it actually starts up). Closing ALL bkgrd apps occasionally helps, I think. I bet there's cache data that needs to be removed. Using iPhone6+ (OS 8.1.1) and we expect more from Akai in the way of testing. Giving it 4 stars based on Videos I've seen and assuming Akai will get this fixed this week.

Great app! Great sound!. I would like that you fix the closing app thing because once you open the app it stays open. I have to shut down my phone every time i use this app, it stays with the red band on the top of my menu for hours.

Solid. Great app. Needs a few tweaks but very responsive drum pad app with a wealth of sound styles. Kind of a deeper MadPad without the video. Adding music from iTunes is easy, as is adding your own sound bites. However I would like to see the custom names I make for my sounds, actually show up on the pads so I know which is which.

Not what I was looking for. Maybe I haven't spent long enough on this app to have an opinion but as far as I know theres no way to chop samples and put them onto pads. Beat maker 2 gives you that option. I have samples in my Files but cant grab those files. You're only limited to whats in your music that has to be downloaded to your phone from a laptop. Which is pointless because if you have a laptop just make music on there? Just feel like music creation apps on mobile devices shouldnt depend on a laptop for samples.

Did they even test it?. Attempted to run this on my iPhone6. Crashed several times. Importing samples worked, in theory. They showed up, but the ends of the decay were truncated. I wouldn’t say this is the worst music app I’ve ever tried to use, but it’s close. Odd, too, as the iPad version seem(ed) much more stable when I last used it, but I was looking forward to having something on my phone I could use.

Dopeness!. This app is pretty tight for hammering out beats on the way home. I can make multilayered & full sounding grooves with it, edit them, then record it into my DAW when I get home. Great for when inspiration strikes and I'm away from my main setup.

You Have Disappointed Me. This app has been on my wish list for the longest even with all the bad reviews of it crashing and stuff like that. And while I admit it does crash a few times I still was into it. UNTIL I had seen that, unlike the iMPC Pro on the iPad, you cannot upload more then ONE SEQUENCE and you only get FOUR TRACKS!? Y'all really disappointed me. Waste of money and my time. SMH. And by the way imma take my chances with GarageBand

iMPC BEAT MAKER!!!. My dream was to get an Akai MPC when I was older, then I saw that you guys have released an iMPC for iPhone and in an instant I installed it, at first it was confusing to me, then I took another try and I learned of the app’s function! I’ve started making chill beats until then, and I’ve been wanting an update for more sample and features and stuff since it’s been over a year. Can you guys support this phone version of iMPC? Thanks!

Cool app, bug ridden.. The sounds all stop working every few times I open iMPC and I have to reinstall the app. Other than that its a cool app. Some of the workflow is awful like trying to take one sound out it clear a recording, still haven't figured how to do that out.

Needs Update. Musicians need to be able to share this with each other. Please make app to app sharing. I have musicians who have this same app but we run into issues sharing it. Everyone has to make their own version of the same thing or rush to switch iPhones to play the mpc

Jus 1 of tha MANY..... . . . Many, various options for pursuing any specific area of music production in any and every genre yu decide.. I really DO love how much music production tools n software have evolved n developed over the years n what it has become to these days! Music is the truth it will set you free! HiphopJunki! K4Dz SQuaD 970CliQue!

Good buy at $2.99. After purchasing iMaschine, I was skeptical about grabbing another name-brand app, but was not disappointed. Faithfully recreates the MPC experience, and is better IMO than iMaschine. However, with no Audiobus support, I couldn't give this more than three stars. Audiobus is a necessity at this point in iOS music creation.

AMAZING. This app does it all expect have a cloud feature but that's okay. Other than having a place to save all of your work, I would much rather appreciate if they allowed you to delete sounds you have made by recording from samples just to clear up space. That would be extremely handy. But as of right now it's the best app on the market of this kind

NEEDS UPDATE!!!. I might have something set wrong, but the playback is extremely slow. And no, it's not the bpm. No matter what bpm I set it plays every seq. slow and I can't figure out why. It's so slow I can't make anything. I've even deleted and reinstalled. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? It probably needs an update.

not what i expected. i owned an mpc and this is nothing like it. the user interface is not friendly and the fact you can only use 4 tracks is kind of wack. I never opened a manual on the mpc 2000 i owned yet i found myself having to go to the guide and even online to figure this thing out. Then when i try to close out i was left with a flashing red bar across the top of my 5c. i would save your money on this one.

4.5 Stars. I love this! I have one small problem though. The audio copy/paste board doesn't play the whole loop when I paste it into another app such as easybeats or garage band. But I love it because I can sample anything. A miracle to music. Thank you! 👌👍

Crashes Repeatedly. From an owner of the original MPC, this is a great app! But, it crashes repeatedly on my iPhone 6 Plus. Also, the app won't even open on my son's iPod Touch. Looking forward to updates. Great potential. This app will blow away all of the rest once it's working properly.

Good until now. I've always loved this app along with the real MPC's and the app would be worth 5 stars except every time I try to use my samples the app crashes when i save them if not when I use them. this needs to be fixed.

Glitches!. This app was amazing when I first bought it...but after a while it started to act funny. I can't record too many tracks without the recording part glitching or freezing. I use to use this app in the studio and at church but now I can't I can't even make new beats withou it freezing. Can you please fix this for me and all the other musicians that love this app?

Cannot delete sounds. 3.5 out of 5 stars from me. Please create a delete option in the sounds category on iPhone just like the iPad version. Also when you select the wavelength that you want the rest with an option should be discarded.

To much lag. Well to start off I make beats myself on my mpd 26. Tho I thought it would be cool if I bought myself a version to make music for my phone. When recording the hi hats it seems off beat or to fast . And if you want to upload your track to soundcloud it's not worth it because you can't even make it a minute long.

Impc. Awesome app !!! The sounds are incredible!!! If you are a REAL PRODUCER u will really appreciate this app..I bet u no one will even guess u made your beat on your phone..professional sound just like the Mpc60 ..effects,filters,808 drum soundsThis iS the real deal !!!

NEeDS FUNCTION TO IMPORT SOUNDS W/O CONNECTING TO ITUNES!!!!!iii. I've had impc since it was released. Its cool and all but it really needs a dropbox option or something so ican load my drums directly into the app. Connecting to a computer just to upload drums all time is a hassle, especially if you dont have access to one. Atleast a third party app (thats completely free) so we can import wav files, come on

SongMode. I just bought the app. Is there a way to place it in song mode. I know because it's iPhone some features might not be available. But if it is allowing me to upload to soundcloud I would like to be able to song mode it. Unless I just haven't played with tiling enough to find it. Laz