AutoPad — Ambient Pad Loops App Reviews

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Great app but crashing. Lately I’ve been having issues with the app crashing when I press on a key for the pad. Settings navigate fine. I’m using the iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 13.5.1. Please help and fix the issue.

Thank you!. Awesome app, worth 10x what it costs. My only suggestion for improvement would be to make it more obvious which key you've selected. The letter does glow it is very faint. Still giving you 5 stars for tho!

Great app. This app is so perfect, especially for acoustic sets. A lot of the reviews I’ve read have said some things that really don’t make sense to me. (I.e. minor keys, sounding too hypnotic) they are relying too much on this AutoPad. It really is just a filler to help fill in sound, which is does perfectly. We use it every week at church and it’s been a lifesaver. Great job on the app!

Grainscapes pads do not download correctly!. Charged twice for grainscapes pads. Program doesn’t download correct pad purchased. Every time the software downloads the bonus pad sounds instead of the grainscapes pads. The bonus pads are free. Problem was taken care of and was able to download correct pads.

Minor difficulties. I love the app, the sounds are good, the pan allows us to have click in the in-ears and not in FOH, and the menus & settings are easy to navigate. However, we’ve used this app now for two rehearsals and one church service, and the app has crashed twice, luckily only during the rehearsals. Seems like it might be a little unstable, and it would be SUPER nice to have different tones for the click other than the ice-pick-to-the-brain sound. It’s a bit painful when there’s only the click coming through in your ears and it’s too easily drowned out by the rest of the band. Otherwise the app is great, and I’m happy with the purchase.

Great app missing one feature. This app is absolutely amazing love every bit of it! But it’s missing one feature, PANNING if there was that feature to be able to send audio all the way to the left or right side would be incredible!! Please add this cause this app is so awesome it just needs that’s one thing!

Functional and great idea with room for improvement. This app has been a lifesaver for weeks when a live keys player is not available. It helps keep the band glued together especially during transitions and underscore moments. A few suggestions for improvement: **An in-app volume control - it's cumbersome in a live setting to adjust the volume using the iPad volume button. Would be much better to have a volume slider or knob in the interface itself. **As far as I know it's not possible to have this run in stereo. An option for stereo would be helpful. **Clearer visual cue if the pad is fired--Right now it's really difficult to tell visually if the pad is fired--it's only a faint outline around the key selected. Maybe if the whole button is lit up in a different color would be helpful? Overall, good app. A few tweaks here and there would make it really stellar!

Highly recommended. 5 stars. Use this every week on stage and it completely changes the game for the price

Works awesome but.... This app works awesome but it keeps crashing. It will crash after 15 or 20 minutes of use, not every time, but a lot of times it does. Would be nice to have this issue resolved

Great great app!. I love this and use it mostly every Sunday at church! Different sounds (and the packs aren't expensive) I recommend this to anyone needing a pad sound. The only thing I would add is a companion app for the Apple Watch. It'd be great to switch between pads or sounds etc without needing the phone next to me. Other than that, nothing but posivites to say.

Great Pad Sounds!. I love this app. I’ve used it every Sunday for years..the addition of setlists and click has been awesome! But, the ONE thing I would to change is having the ability to turn off the click accent. Could we make this happen soon!?

Cool app, but only one note at a time. Would love it if this app could make ambient chords in addition to many ambient octaves of a single note. This would be super useful to me if there was a similar pad with major and minor chords lumped together by key or something. The app would be unstoppable!

Fantastic app for pad and click!. Been using the app for a couple of years now and I absolutely love it. I use it on my iPhone, make a setlist, and have it going to two channels on my church’s mixer. One for click/pad and one just for pad. Has great pad sounds (dark analog is my favorite) and the click works perfectly. Also, their customer service/support is top notch. I got a very helpful response from them when I had a click issue. Definitely recommend this app!

No longer saves settings???. Sooo I love this app I’ve been using it for about 3 years but I can not figure out why my settings are no longer saving I used to be able to keep my volume down my cross fade all the way up and everything the way I needed it but lately it’s been resetting to default settings everytime I close the app with only the pad I chose but not the settings please fix this I LOVE this app and recommend it to all my friends but this little thing is such an amazing feature that makes it even more customizable to each person please fix or bring back! 😓 I hate going in to the app and the volume being at full instead of where I left it

Awesome!!!!. The sounds are great and the simplicity of the design is great. Perfect for a solo worship artist just playing an acoustic guitar and looking to have a little pad in the background.

Great except it drains battery.. Be sure you turn on save battery or close app fully after using. Not sure what it is doing in the background but it kills my battery when I’m not even using it.

“Live” Tab is quirky!. The best thing about this App is that if you upload a pad in a particular key - you identify what key it is, and AutoPad will adjust that particular key you uploaded to fit the other 11 keys, if you want to toggle them. Very handy! The click track is awesome, however, I don’t see how I could use it in a live setting in my ears, if the pad is also being use live… literally no one else wants to hear the click. This program over is really good for basic pad needs, but definitely not perfect. As far as workflow goes, I have found that it is best to upload all your downloaded pads in the “Live” tab, then after that - it is best to essentially ignore the “Live” tab. Move over to the “Set List” and create your songs. In the set list, the user can actually see what particular Pad sound & key is assigned to each song. Seeing the pad file selected for each song is extremely helpful, because you cannot see the pad file selected in the “Live” tab. I have played around with this quite a bit over the past few days. The “Live” tab is really really quirky. In “Live” I really don’t like how you can select multiple pads for each key, and even when you deselect one, and enable another pad - the sounds sometime don’t change - even if you turn the pad on and off. It drives me nuts! Overall, now that I have figured out how to use the app in a fairly robust way, I plan on using it a lot now. Just bummed it isn’t perfect, but hey, what is?!

This is a GREAT and USEFUL app for worship!’. I really appreciate Ryan creating this app and adding MIDI control to it as well. I use Ableton Live and Gig Performer (similar but better than MainStage-IMHO). I have put drone pad loops in both Ableton & Gig Performer which has worked great! This week I took the time to setup AutoPad for use with Gig Performer. As long as it’s reliable like the other two programs, I may use this as my primary pad player. The only thing that stops me from a 5 star rating is that it is only AUv3. The programs I use that I’ve mentioned several times in this post recognize AU, VST & VST3 plugins. I would LOVE and prefer to use/control AutoPad in one of those hosts. I’m on a Mac and don’t know how much more is involved in making this app AU compatible but that would make a HUGE difference in use ability. I’m hoping that day will come sooner rather than later. Other than my request to make this compatible with professional programs, Ryan has made a very useful tool for worship that is in my tool set! PS….this is fantastic for sure on iOS and that is where that AUv3 comes in nicely! Get this now if you don’t have it. Thank you Ryan and I look forward to seeing this continue to develop!

Please Add Click off in Setlist. Please add a switch to turn off the click while in Setlist when the tracks are playing. Would be perfect with this function!

Killer. This app is AWESOME and helped take things to a new level. The only thing so far I would want added is to be able to create a custom layout.

Killer pads app. This will be GREAT for worship services! Very user friendly interface and awesome sound! Very well done!

Great concept horrible execution. I downloaded this app because I saw a friend of mine use it with his worship team. I downloaded it and even bought the extra sounds. But when I connected through Bluetooth to our system it will play for five seconds and then drop out completely. I have to close the app and restart it and it is the same thing over and over again. I just wish this Apple work and I can give it a five star review

Beautiful samples, great design. A simple design with rich samples. This app helps set the atmosphere and I love the low / high pass filter options!

Amazing app!. Great selection of sounds and easy to use. Will be using this week in our worship service. Awesome!

Great sounds and so easy to use. This is a great easy setup to use Pads and click on your worship team.

Best one I tried!. I trialed a couple of different pad apps on my iPad before deciding on this one for our church services. The included and optional pad sounds are outstanding and the ability to import pads from other sources is totally great! I especially appreciate the ability to edit sounds used for a song once it’s in a set list as well as the ability to drag and drop songs to a different slot in a set list if you want to change the order once the list is built. This seemed to be the one app that does EVERYTHING I could need or want. I have deleted all others. Thanks Ryan!

Great!. I Love this app, Great for use when learning guitar scales. Can play this over scale and hear the cadences of the scale you are playing over.

Great for limited use. I found this great for intros but if I kept it on for the whole song, it would just start to feel like a hypnosis or constant feedback somewhere. Features I would like to see: Ability to set a timer for how long a single pad to play. Allow user to create layers of timed pads. Create a “Scene” - combined with the timer and layer feature. This allows the user to combine multiple recorded or timed notes for intro pads, verse and chorus pads etc. ‘Tap’ for tempo. Simple explanation... if you have someone else running the pads the ability to match the tempo by navigating to a tempo tab with a big round circle or something to tap on would be great. This feature should be real time adjustment because most changes a user makes with the current version, you have to stop the pad and restart it. Texture pads - sometimes I like to add a small bit of nighttime noises to make it feel like we’re out under the stars (like David Crowder Band - I need words); I also like the crackling of a fire (Any song from Rend Collective’s Campfire album); and even a ticking clock (You can barely hear this in the song Only Hope by Switchfoot). A lot of the functionality aspects I am suggesting are included in iReal Pro but the advantage I see for AutoPad is the ability to distill these suggested features down to fit AutoPads target audience.

I love this app!!. we have been trying to fill out our sound at church and this app is amazing!! i absolutely love it and couldn’t recommend it more that i do!!

Fantastic start!. Really love this app. Great combination of pad sounds and easy functionality. Two suggestions: 1. Add a playlist function to be able to go from pad to pad based on the music set. 2. It’s really tough on the fly to get to the menu to change pad sounds as I move from song to song. Is it possible to create the interface in such a way that the pad sounds are available at the top as their own buttons?

Odd question. How do you use it for songs wrote in Flats.....?.. Thanks Ryan for your response. Thanks that’ll work, I kinda thought that after I sat down and started looking at it more closer.

More Notes. Great working app! Very stable and easy to use. Developers were quick to assist with the question I had.

Nice on iPad, not so nice on mac. This app works great and sounds great on my iPad. However under Monterey on macOS it is standalone and I can’t get it in Logic Pro X. This app needs to be AU with a component to be useful on the Mac.

Great app with few Buggs. My only thing I noticed was that the pad would stop playing after 10-20 minutes. I would have to close the app and reopen it to get it to play again.

Keep scrolling, don’t waste your time. Is it really impossible to do minor chords or custom chords ? This is one of the most elementary features of an app like this. Might as well remove the key of C major, or remove all the audio from the app because it’s every bit as useless. I wish I could rate this 0 stars. Don’t waste your time or money

Autopad is great but..,. Please make it available on the google play store!! Thank you!

So close!. Irig BlueBoard only puts out 4 notes, C, D, E, and F. The pads in this app do not midi learn so that I could assign my chord samples to one of those four notes and trigger them via BlueBoard. Like if I wanted to play an Ab chord using the C pad. Admittedly, I am searching for an iOS sample pad with assignable midi control. Midi learnable. I could have possibly used the set list feature, but there’s no way to move from “song” to “song” via midi. Great app, just won’t work for me.

Great but some issues with midi in AUM. Great application. Use it all the time. But Set List mode midi doesn’t work when used in AUM.

Midi does not work!. Well is app is good and does what it promises.. except for Midi.. which does not work on iPhone 8plus.. however cannot complaint much at the price point...

Great app.. The ability to pan and have click inside of the pads is excellent.

Great Foundation, Needs more Development. Some huge pros: • the app is STABLE, no crashing, audio is seamless, even when switching between apps • it's straightforward in its layout, which is a big plus when working on stage Honestly seeing that this is v1 makes me extremely excited for what it could become. Autopad already is set to be one of the most useful tools in my arsenal. A couple of recommendations: • add volume control within the app: pads are a bit quiet compared to other apps like Bebot and GarageBand • add minor chords • create a way to cycle through a setlist, allow users to create their own grid with what they will need EDIT: • also definitely create a way to mess with some of the Pad timbres, such as add more motion or movement, swells, brighten/dampen with low pass filters, etc. I showed a friend of mine this, and we both agreed it's a great start. It's just the tones, although they're well designed, are rather plane without any kind of background melodic movement like synth swells and chorusy delay/verb chains.

Excellent app...hoping for more. This app is great. Love the simplicity of it. The only thing is it’s not easy to switch between sounds if your using a different sound for different songs. Hoping for a feature for that to come down the line.

Buy now if you lead worship. Seriously. This app will help you eliminate the dreaded “dead space”. Well worth the equivalent to a cup of coffee.

We love it and use it weekly. We’ve been using this app on Sunday mornings for a few months. Overall, we’re very happy with what it allows us to do. The simple interface making changing keys and sounds an effortless task, which is hugely important when we’re playing live music. I can keep strumming and singing and quickly adjust the pad. Awesome. Our only critique is that we wish minor keys were available. This would make it a 5-star app for us!

So Clutch 👊. Use it every week for worship. But it’s usable in seriously any setting. So easy to use and completely reliable.

Love it! Great beginning!. I agree with everything Pro CCM Keyboardist said in their review. In addition to the pad, it would would amazing to have ambient melodic tones in the background to add some color to the pad so it’s not just the pad sound only the whole time.

Great, Simple App. I've been using Auto Pad with my Church's praise band for over 2 years now, and I've been very satisfied with it. The main pad screen is great. I'm glad they finally added a better set-list feature. One suggestion I have would be more comprehensive Set List management. Perhaps a copy-list feature, or something where I could maintain a matter list of songs, then create a sub-list from that for a given week's set.

Great developer, Great product. I had an issue with the app not connecting to my Bluetooth speaker and crashing. Within a day of my previous review the developer contacted me and updated the app. This is awesome! Thank you for creating such a great product and caring so deeply about your customer’s purchase. May God continue to bless you in your ministry🙂🙏🏽

Good Start!. Great idea for an app! A cool future feature would be to have the ability to blend in additional intervals (2nds, 5ths, 7ths). Having the ability to fade those intervals in and out would give this so much more character and make it a more musical tool. I found that I can tap two pads at the same time—sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. However, fading in specific intervals would be better. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.

Reliable and simple. Reliable and simple, and the sounds are excellent! I typically just use the standard default sound while playing acoustic to add a little more to my sound. Love it!

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Awesome just became AWESOME!!. Simply the best app for anyone needing to fill the sound space. I love this app, and now with their update of set lists it’s even better!!! Great work guys!

Great app - lacks innovation. I’ve bought all the pads $24 in total which I think they sound great. But I think for the amount of money I’ve spent there needs to be an option for octaves and to be able to layer the pads - layer a shimmer over a strings pad, play a c4 over a c6 with a more standout reverb and all that. All customisable in the setlist. Just some thoughts. Otherwise fantastic idea for service ambience.

Quality sounds. The variety in these drone and pad sounds is amazing. Great to adjust for different rooms. Thanks for such an easy to use resource

It’s ok but.... I like it and it’s helpful. Limited sounds available and no sounds that actively change and move. These are more background noise. I’m looking forward to more options as it’s a good app

Amazing app. I use this app every Sunday at church and Friday at youth and it always works seamlessly. The filter options really assist our sound team to achieve the sound they want. My only critique or suggestion for improvement is the setlist. It is a really great tool but could be improved by having saved settings for many songs in a seperate “song library”. For example: I create a pad in A for ‘king of my heart’ one week, and then save it to this personal song library. Then the next time I need to play the song I can just add it to my live setlist. That would be AWESOME and save a lot of time. Thanks guys!

Superb textures. This is a fantastic set-and-forget background textural pad app with a great selection of ambient sounds.

Great! Room for growth too.. I love the sounds. I would love for there to be minor chords available too and at some stage the ability to put together chord charts so that the ambiance moves with your song without you having to change the chord yourself. I’d also love to be able to move the octaves around a little more so that the root chord is always the highest or lowest of the song (when it switches it up half way through a progression it sounds a little odd...although perhaps I’m not familiar enough with the app yet and there is already a functionality around this..I’ve only been playing around for 5 mins on it). I do like the app and I think for the price point it should do a little more. Currently it behaves more like a 99c app. Thanks and I look forward to seeing the updates. :)

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Great!!!. AutoPad is a simple and straight-forward app. It does one thing and it does it well. I would love to see more instruments added but very happy with the selection available. This will definitely be incorporated into my production workflow!

Secret weapon. best long sample performance tool on ipad!

Crackle sound. Keep getting random cracke sound if it’s through the speaker and the headphone jack. Click is turned off. Something is wrong with app.

Great app. It is a great app! The pads are amazing! But it would better if the click tracks were shaker sounds.

Great App. This app is really well thought out Nd easy to use. Highly recommend

Nice!. So far I like this. Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but can I map midi to control the cutoff, volume, etc?

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preety good drone machine. Now with midi I think this will be alot better for droning. I imagine you can use another synth with this on mac, but ive only used ios. Hails to this for the simple yet great concept.

Very cool app!. This is super cool and super useful 😎🌟✨ Thanks for the update, clicktrack volume works great again 👍

So good!. I've wanted an app like this for such a long time! This app is just perfect :)

About 5% Volume with Latest October 2018 Update. This was an app that flirted with greatness - now I can barely hear the output at full volume! PLEASE fix!! In conjunction with the aforementioned issue it seems that after awhile there is no sound output whatsoever. Two or three times already I have hade to delete the app and re-download it! Am I wrong to become annoyed with this?

Great app.. The ability to pan and have click inside of the pads is excellent.

I Love It!. The app allows you to create a setlist to help with the transition of songs.

Great app for what it does.. Developer is right on top of things. That’s what I like.

beautiful app. best iOS music app no cap

Good app, needs better pads. As much as like the app’s interface, the pads are rather bland. Look at the CoreSound pads and Peter James pads from MultiTracks.com for comparison.

Autopad is great but..,. Please make it available on the google play store!! Thank you!

Simple and easy to use. Great idea and works like it is supposed to

Bad mamojama. Bad to the biddy tha bong da bongD Bada ding ding 💯

Please add minors and minor flats thanks!. Please add minors and minor flats ! Great app otherwise ! 5 stars ! Thanks !

Found it today, gig’ing it tomorrow.. What’s a better endorsement than this? Wooo!

Just purchased - not working. Volume is unstable and disappears. Note pads are not working. Worked for a minute and then stopped. Very disappointing.

Better than Multitracks.com. Multitracks wants to charge $10/mo to enable these same functions except this interface is far superior to theirs and this one comes preloaded with some surprisingly good sounds! Thank you for creating this app and offering it for such a reasonable one-time fee!

Amazing!!. Its very easy for use! A great app for all musics!

Great drone pads, limited functions. Great pad sounds, but please add an option to change octaves +1 or -1!

KEYS. The app is great I wish there was a way to also have minor chords or even major 7 chords

This app is buggy and a resource hog.. I have an m1 max 64 GB mac pro and it can't handle running one ideration of this in logic. From what I've heard from worship buddies this is a great app on Ipad but right now on mac this is less then half baked. It's maybe 20% there. The pads often don't switch when you try to change them and the "drag left to delete" is broken. If you're going to release this on madc for 6 dollars, I would think you would at least make sure all of the advertised features work. I hope you guys get this running right and optimized for apple silicone. This would be a really useful tool to me. For now avoid. I will update if they fix these issues.

Totally great experience. The interaction, the user experience is very well thought through. I was able to organise and perform with my acoustic guitar very easily. I felt confident in delivering a good performance with AP beside me. My setup included the iRig2 with an ¼" output to the sound board on my iPhone. Sweet deal. Looking forward to using AP always.

Great but Feedback. Great app but recently I’ve been experiencing feedback within the app. Like a static reverb in the background. Please fix as soon as possible.