Flip Sampler App Reviews

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Longtime electronic producer enjoying iOS. This 9 track sampler is actually a brilliant and exceedingly high functioning complete groove workstation. The layout was intuitive I managed to find all features without using it’s also brilliantly convenient help button that’s always there to explain any feature by tapping it then the button or knob in question. The internal sample store also looks like it’s going to be very hip and vibey someday, as if this review it seamed like it had about 5 interesting looking packs for sale, I did not try any out though my phone is clogged with samples by now so I imported my own into the app smoothly without incident. As far as there being a way to bulk import I’m not sure as I’m to lazy to have read anything the developers written yet, including this AppStore page, but I had to leave a review because to me this marks the moment good design and music production really start to get along with each other on iOS. Wishlist _ 1. Just one synthesizer would be super Fire! 2. Saturator effect, thigh I do love the decimation that allready present 3. I really dig the user interface and think it’s brilliant but for my taste despite how clean, right and tight it is it still has a little bit of a childish vibe and would love to see a more stark yet colorful approach maybe similar to auxey pro or something. Thanks to developer, super great work here, I’m stoked

Small bugs ( I think). Whenever I press record and I immediately stop the recording without playing anything, when I try to play back the sounds previously recorded, I can’t hear it at all unless I exit the app. Also whenever I go to the song order tab and mess around on it for too long the app kicks me out. Please let me know if it’s just my phone being dumb:)

Only spent four minutes in this app.... ...and already I predict it will be purchased down the line by ABLETON. Huang, you’ve done it again! What an amazing phone sequencer for on the go jams and a crazy great inspiration tool! Totally gives GarageBand a run for the doe, and is right up there with Maschines app! Love the simplicity and ease of access approach to creating samples! Keep up the great work mannnnne! Also VERY affordable in app pack downloads! Very humble and jaw dropping app! 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Incredible, but a little unstable. Overall, Flip is quite a robust mobile DAW. it lends very well to my sample based music production style, and the workflow gets my ideas flowing and developed quickly. As of right now, however, there is a bug on iPhone 13 that doesn’t save each project’s BPM like before.

Rereviewing to point out some bugs. Every time I open the app it gives me a pop up window with links to the tutorial video and the store, neither of which I need. Can it, stop doing that? Also, I tried to delete the default tracks because they were unwanted clutter but they come back every time I reopen the app, so maybe fix that too. Lastly, not a bug but on my iPhone 8 (small by today's standards, I know) it's really hard to adjust the vertical axis in the piano edit page. And it doesn't zoom far enough in to be accurate because these notes are so skinny and their hitboxes are unforgiving. I never have a problem with this on GarageBand so I know it's not me. Other than those three things, great experiences so far with this app!

Far more than a sampler. I am pretty impressed with this app so far. The ability to effect each sample runs deep. I hate to even call it a sampler because it is so much more. The UI is good on a phone (have not thrown it on my iPads yet). It is easy to use as it has a pretty standard setup but still has its own identity. I have only used it for about ten minutes to give it a quick go round and so far I am pretty impressed with the depth. I have an insane amount of audio apps and have been beta testing apps for about ten years now- this one is a total keeper and worth the price. Take my word for it. If you have any issues the developer is very responsive. I am wondering why in the newest update the ‘sample store’ is being phased out. I don’t mind as I like to use my own but it scares me that this app might be abandoned or go to a subscription model. I DON’T know this-I am speculating. I just hope this this app stays around for awhile because it has some great features and I am glad it is in the top of the audio apps chart because it deserves it. Great price point too.

ALMOST there... needs more. I’ve been following this app for some time. I bought without hesitation knowing the level of community support was there. I’ve managed to make a few tracks. Initially it was fun to play around and make some beats. But further along some key frustration started to set it. Sore spots: No MIDI - not a terrible on its own, but the onscreen keyboard is un-usable for me. Would have preferred a root noted grid pad (ie Maschine MK3 or endlesss pads). The Piano roll editor is too glitchy for me. Lacks crispness and precision. Way difficult to copy / paste in precise notes. UNDO is not reliable - undoes certain actions, but not all. Seems glitchy Hard to copy tracks across different instances in the song mode. I’m certain once these issues are fixed this app’s fun potential will be unlocked. LOOKING FORWARD to the updates and hope to give a more positive review here. Thanks

Thanks Andrew. This is the app I have been looking for. I have no complaints except for the occasional bug or glitch. One thing I would like to see added is a sample looper feature like in garage band for iOS. I also think that the velocity/midi editor could be slightly reorganized. I don’t really edit velocity much and it takes up a big portion of the screen, maybe a tab to hide it🤷🏻‍♂️. Great app though, pretty much everything works exactly how I want it. I haven’t really gotten into the automation page much yet but it is brilliantly designed. Great job! 👏🏻

I love this app! A Suggestion. The little mobile DAW is so great. I love Andrew Huang and his videos/music. My honor to purchase it. I would love to see you guys add a midi chord pack for purchase. I’m not incredibly musically inclined but love to put beats on music but finding good samples takes time and as a busy dad I don’t have much of that. I would totally be willing to buy a midi chord pack if it had a lot to work with!

Great sampler, limited though. I love using this app, helps me effortlessly get the classic sampling goodness anytime anywhere. It would benefit from a couple more effects, maybe a distortion or flanger/phaser. Also, this sampler NEEDS a loop function. More often than not, my samples are cut short when I try to do chords or melodies with lots of pitch shifting.

Wow. The workflow is insane! It has so much attention to detail like two simultaneous keyboards with independently controlled octaves, different automation lengths, and the clever way pads do pitch and velocity (off by default!) So next version let’s get 16 pads instead of 9 ;) Still I’d pay $50 for this (hope this comment ages well...) and I got it for $7.99.

Not bad at all!. I have to say that this app out the gate does pretty fine job of creating beats. I am/was a huge DM1 fan by Fingerlabs, but as long as that app has been out the devs failed to listen to request to make a DM3 with advanced features commonly use with other beat apps. Well I’m happy to say that the devs for Flip have answered the call with some of the features that I’ve requested from Fingerlabs are on this app. Would like to see AUV3 implemented into the app, as well possible IAA if possible. As of this review I see they also added a feature to reuse recordings in the app from the tape folder. Nice! I’ll update my review from 4 ⭐️’s to 5 when more features are added by way of updates.

Wow. I cannot believe how clever and wildly useful this ridiculously cheap app is. Don’t get it if you can’t afford to lose hours creating legit recordable samples and patterns. Not for people who think making music should feel like hard work, because this is pure fun.

Fast, fun, easy to learn but lacks IAA integration. Really fun app, easy to use, and really appreciate the how-to videos from Andrew and the help overlay - other devs should take notes! Was glad to find an easy way to import my self-recorded samples out of the box. The one major drawback is that it doesn't work as InterApp Audio (or AUV3). Ableton Link is great for BPM, but that's about it - start stop was fidgity for me, and Volume on disconnected apps is tedious. With InterApp Audio it would integrate into my established workflow, easier levels management, post FX could be applied, even per-track FX if the tracks were blown out like in Pttrning2. If this can happen, it's a 5 star app for me. Without it, I fear it's going to sit idle in the dusty folder of standalone music apps.

Could be great if it weren’t so buggy. I want to love this app. Typically it’s a great tool for improvising & sketching out melodies & percussion ideas. But there’s unfortunately too much inconsistency & bugs with sample recording. Half the time it works great - I hit the record button & hum a note or make some sort of drum sound with my mouth & flip automatically find the starting point. But more often it seems to just be latching onto a bit of noise (according to the waveform) or sometimes the waveform looks correct, but it just won’t play back my recording at all. Not sure if this is just a problem for me or if it’s a common occurrence. Other than that bug it’s usually a great & fun app.

Good, could be great. Coming from someone who hates DAW’s usually, it’s nice to see one that’s so intuitive. I think Flip works best for capturing live sound an creating patterns and sequences from that. It’s much more difficult to take a sample of a song and loop it into the meter, though it’s not impossible. It also needs resampling. Seriously, just adding that would multiply the versatility of this app tenfold. Also finer control over the speed of the sample would be great, or some kind of way to loop a sample onto the timeline rather then just timing the triggers just right. Also a distortion or clipping effect for each track, like the chorus + delay and such. You can get a version of this with the ring modulater, but perhaps you could switch it out or something? Other than that, this app has a wealth of creativity for the user. I’m excited to see what people make with it.

Great but glitchy. Super fun to play with and slowly learning the interface Is there a known bug where the app will just stop playing the audio for the track or samples you are working on? It says its playing, but its not. Occasionally plays one or two of the samples. Does this one on phone and iPad.I even click out of the song im working on and sometimes other sounds will work, but sometimes not. Really frustrating when you're getting into a groove and the app Stops playing back your creations.

Great App, one issue. First off, this is a great sampler! I’ve had it for the past couple of weeks and have mad some small song on the go that I really injoyed. I know this app is still in its infancy and will still need some updates. I do have weird glitch that is happening that I can throw at the development team here. When I go from any project to another project the tuning on my instruments is all off sometimes even the effects that I put on don’t produce the same results when I created the song. Thanks for the app will continue to use it!

Amazing app. This app is super cool and has everything you need. And surprisingly this is just released. I hear you guys will continue updating that app. This app is already great. One issue I had is when trying to learn the buttons is sometimes after I clicked the help button and click something I don’t know, the words are sometimes blotched up. I still very much enjoy this app and will continue using it a lot. Also please add more arrangement patterns as 16 is not enough for me. Thank You!!

Perfect. Everything about this app is just so much fun. I constantly just want to open it. I love the layout/GUI. It has such a cohesive workflow/pipeline which makes the creative pathway from start to finish very enjoyable. My only feedback at this point is if there could be a way that arming the record button just starts recording whenever you start playing and then loops upon pressing the record button again. And lastly, if in keyboard view, you could opt for the drum pads along the top instead of 2 keyboards. Everything is just so responsive that I just turn quantize off and the performance is accurately captured every time! Thank you for this beautiful instrument!

Great Potential just not quite there yet.. Ow wow... I spent hours working on a project. Duplicated for a backup. Renamed....and now both projects have been replaced with a different project. So I have 3 of the same track from days ago..... There are a lot of bugs that need working on. For example, duplicating multiple notes on the piano roll can introduce all sorts of glitches like randomly elongating all of the notes. The worst part...I cannot undo this! There is no way to auto backup either, so be prepared to lose a whole lot of work. I love the minimalist design, but I often wish I could just see the name of a menu and would love to see multiple midi channels in relation to one another instead of constantly switching back and forth. As for the purchaseable sample packs, tell us how many samples I am downloading before purchase. I expected more due to how many came loaded. I’m fine with the amount for the price, but you’ll want to manage expectations vs reality. I do love the app, and love that I can make decent music from bed, so I’ll be eagerly awaiting any updates!

Just the essentials. Handy, (get it) having all the workflow UI along the edges. There are all the essentials for composing tracks and formulating ideas before taking them to the next level. My only feedback is that the keyboard and piano roll could use a fat thumb option. My big fingers are having trouble landing the targeted notes. I end up stacking a bunch of notes next to each other. Then as I try to toggle them, I’d end up adding more. And you can forget about playing Chopsticks with anything other than chopsticks.

fun but a bit buggy. for reference, i’m on the 4th gen ipad air - before i get into the issues, i want to say the app is a super fun sketch pad, and i love the transient detection in the sampler. perfect for jamming and coming up with ideas i could use for sample packs or tunes. haven’t tried any built in sounds but they’re probably cool. i’m sure these problems i’m gonna mention are all fixable, and i am looking forward to using this app into the future. manually adjusting the start/end points is a bit finicky and it has trouble telling when i want to move one or both, or when i want to zoom or scroll the start and end region boundaries as one. the pitch detection is pretty much always wrong, but glad to see the attempt! it doesn’t really hinder anyone playing by ear, i suppose. the ADSR envelope doesn’t seem to work perfectly, i always get little clicks at the end of a sample or sample end brace that doesn’t naturally fade to silence, even if i have the sustain at -Inf dB and no release. the reverb seems to have input latency that is most apparent with short transient hits and high send values.

Game changer (srsly). I wanted to wait until I had a chance to really play with all the features, directly compare it to other apps, and really put it through the ringer. And it’s impressive! It is exactly the bridge between working with loops and really opening up technical music making possibilities. The pads are super responsive. The quantize is perfect. The sampling capabilities are seemingly endless. I’ve already made some really fun beats with just my breath and some whistling. Pros: -sampling is so robust you can make almost any sound from the right input sound -exporting to the stems is a leap above what anyone else is offering -one time purchase! Apps that are way less comprehensive require monthly (sometimes weekly) subscription fees Cons: -I personally haven’t figured out how to simultaneously export the whole song and the stems at the same time. Small thing that’s mostly preferential. -Sometime when I’m editing midi, it crashes. But that could honestly be my phone. Who knows? Overall, this is a huge win. Even with the smallest of flaws I give this five stars. Do not hesitate to buy this. Update: Didn’t check all the files after export. Master was totally there. Flawless app.

Awesome App!. Really enjoy the interface and all of the options compacted into this! Addicting to say the least! One thing I’m having trouble with on the Sample Page is the “Pitch” knob adjustment. It keeps resetting back to default (0) after I alter it for a specific pad. The “Gain” knob right next to it stays wherever I set it, so I’m not sure if it’s a bug or if I’m just not doing something properly. Download this if you are even slightly interested in getting into this kind of music production! It’s worth it!

Beautiful creative music App!, but.. I love making beats on this software and messing with it on my computer, this is a seamless process of recording samples, to recording session, to saving to my iCloud, to editing software it’s amazingly simple. I would give it 5 stars but have a simple grape with the app now won’t let me upload things to it to use not sure why but gives me an error, but other then that I love this app I like restarting sample pads so it wasn’t to much of an inconvenience. I do have a update idea, have the option to maybe edit names of the pads page and also maybe have the option to change the colors of them. That would be amazing to helping me decipher my pads lol. But thanks for making a great app!

So good.. This app is really great. UI is a little dated for 2021, but the functionality and flow is here. I also use Koala which is amazing and you should buy both, but this app allows for way easier sculpting of sound and much more in depth sequencing for building full tracks. One feature request, allow it to preview a sound before importing. If you download a ton of samples from Splice for example, they all have really long, really similar file names, so being able to preview the sound before assigning it to a pad (like you can on the 1010 blackbox) would be amazing.

BEST APP EVER HANDS DOWN. If you’re a musician, and you don’t get this app, you’re missing out in one of the most brilliant new tools on the market. You won’t regret the money you spend. I can sit and spend hours at a time on this thing. Every time I open a new project I have a great time with it. %100 will release an album of stuff made mostly with this tool.

Filing bug. Personally I love this app. It helps me express the trashy sounds before am actual production session. I've also take some really cool samples at work through the record sample button. Unfortunately after a few weeks of enjoying the Operation pocket DAW, the app just bugged out and deleted files and sounds I had uploaded into the library. I think I might have messed something up during a file sort but after looking into it & moving the files back, it still doesnt bring back my sounds and even the stock beats and stock sound kits. Overall this app has so much potential but it's too bugy. It would compare to an alpha mode DAW. A better comparison is to EA and Dice launches of every Battlefield title. I'm hoping that eventuall the app will be good.

Best mobile sampler. This is the best mobile sampler I’ve ever used. It records live mixing and automation, and exports multitrack plus a master of session. It took an hour to get used to the flow, but it’s soo much fun. I’ve made a track with it and I really liked the way it came out, much more dynamic than what I usually make thanks to the automation features. Highly recommend this!

Such a fun app. I’ve always struggled to really consistently use music making software, i have the fl demo but it can be such a pain to learn the ui that it feels like it doesn’t want to be accessible to beginners. That’s why i love flip, i was able to open it and start making music almost immediately. The ui is super straight forward and enjoyable to use. Thank you Andrew and the Flip Team for creating such a wonderful app!

Super great already!. This is a great workstation app. The only thing I would like messed with is splice integration. It is possible to download samples from splice to device, and load them currently, but it is one file at a time, and I would like to have more of my splice library loaded for randoming through. Also a slice to pads feature would be crazy for longer drum loops, but that is asking a lot. I love it! 5 stars.

USB Controller Integration?. I absolutely adore the creativity and speed of this app. Making good sounding samples from anything around me is absolutely incredible, and I love using this app for quick ideas. However, I think the biggest drawback for me is not being able to connect a USB controller, keyboard, or audio interace. If I can, pleeease let me know. It’s a little too slow for me to make music in the edit window vs playing everything in with a portable controller or my digital piano. I’d also love the freedom of recording samples in real time from instruments through my 2i2.

Good. Great idea, but way too overloaded.. It will be easier to operate on an tablet than on the phone. I have lost two projects on this app. The drag and drop has to be very precise. Quantize has to be done in small quantities I made the mistake to quantize the whole beat, it went chaotic; it is okay when apply on small amount of notes only. After a chaotic quantize which I tried undo, it only undo one note at a time; in the middle of rescuing my project, all notes were erased and no redo/undo function can help. There are bugs in this app, if any operation doesn’t make sense, restart the app. Even closing the app is tricky. There are lots of features for fine tuning, but if the creation part cannot lay down a beat, I cannot use those features. The basic functions for composing are not carefully secured, while they tried to offer a lot of advance features. My advise is for users to create multiple disposable short/quick projects, get use to this app first, before RELYING on it to create.

👍👍. Haven’t played with the app long enough to give an in depth review, but I was recording and editing samples in seconds. I m a hobbyist level sample based producer. My plans for this app are using it to record samples when I stumble into an interesting sound in day to day life and to use it to practice the craft and make music on lunch breaks, commutes, etc... it makes music and it s on my phone so, it makes music and I always have it with me.

Intuitive music making for neophytes and grandmasters alike!. What the Flip confirms is the power of excellent programming combined with smart design and an intuitive UI. The meeting of a genius workflow, nice aesthetics, and impressive production value contained entirely within a small ecosystem is a quite a feat. Flip is in that Goldilocks zone of being advanced enough to satisfy a veteran producer while still remaining intuitive enough for someone who’s just getting started. As a someone who’s taught music production to kids i think this is a perfect tool to learn on. It takes all the simplicity of something like Koala and packs it with additional features. But most of all. It’s fun! Really fun!

Link is not working iPad OS 14+. Really enjoying Flip, and am glad for its ease of use and multiple updates so soon after release! Link, though is not working as it should on our end... it did, then lost its sync over 32 bars and then suddenly will not connect to any link source. Reinstalled app, updated iOS... on a very robust network with Abelton 10 and AUM is working with link solid for days... please look into this issue and I look forward to a fix! Peace and thank you for the fun this app will bring to the world :)

Unbelievably Great Value. Simply put, this is the best value that I’ve ever seen for any sort of music making software or hardware. You can make full songs using flip alone, and with great tutorials already, you can really get deep into this. For only $10, I truly feel like it’s a no brained for any sort of music producer to own to bring out sample-based music ideas quickly, cleanly, and efficiently. Plus, you can export the master track and stems of any project to be used in your DAW of choice afterwards if you want, which is an invaluable perk. Thank you guys so much for your work on this, I can’t wait to dive in more!!

No way to export as wav?. Great sampler. Only thing that would make it better is if you could export your work as a wav file rather than just a zip. But since they fixed the issue with InterApp Audio, I can use it with GarageBand again, so I can go back to saying it’s my favorite sampler even without an export to wav feature.

Great!. The interface for this app is one of the best I’ve seen, and it makes sample chopping and editing super intuitive and fun. All in all this is a great app. I’m certain that IAA will be on its way, and that will be enough to integrate this with the rest of my workflows, particularly if I can live sample from other apps. Once we’re there this will be a 5 star app. I’m certainly glad to be able to import from the files app right now. I would love to have the option to label my faders on the mixer, or have the sample names appear somewhere on the faders. This app can really be played like an instrument and that feature would really round that out. This could almost be its own synth if you could do things like apply envelopes to the filters, or even apply just the amp envelope to the filter. You can kind of get there with automation but it didn’t feel quite the same for me. Of course if I can sample from my other apps I can get that functionality with other synths and just sample it here. I’m very happy with the focus this app provides- really excellent work. I look forward to seeing more.

Easy to use. There has never been an app so accessible to just jump in and mess around. The best part about the app is that it doesn’t have too many features. The essentials without looking too cluttered. Top notch work on this one. Looking forward to the updates.

Seriously. Who is writing these good reviews? A bunch of Andrew Huang fans? This thing looks like a toy but a toy that doesn’t work. Once I found a samples in my folder of thousands that would work, they’re wav files, but most don’t even show up, then I would put marks on the piano roll and it plays about 1/10 of them. All this “I was making music in minutes” stuff in the other reviews, they’re ringers right? Cmon admit it. I was making music with Drambo faster than this thing. No exaggeration. Merry Xmas guys, guess my gift to you is $7.99

Thank You. This is an unbelievably simple and full featured music making app. It is the most intuitive workflow I have come across in 10+ years of recording (I've used Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools, Reason, Reaper and Bitwig). I wish they would do a Mac/PC port in the future but I know there are other things that need to be developed first. Keep it up Dev team!!

Never be without music creation anymore. This is the ideal tool to keep learning and creating anywhere. Making music with whatever comes to hand is so easy with this app. It took about 3 minutes to learn the basics and I’m off! And now with MIDI functionality! Even better.

So fun. ** there seems to be a bug with dragging clips to the trash icon on bottom right** This is the gateway drug for apple products. this app along made me decide to borrow a friend’s old ipad sitting in the dust and now look at me I bought myself an ipad pro. Anyway jokes aside, right now it crashes when I use magic keyboard accidentally (not supported) during renaming a project.

Crash-y on iPhone. I've had this app for years. Opened it up today and got right to playing. It's crashed 3 times in 40 minutes. Also, on my iPhone 14 I now have the "dynamic island" feature blocking 1/4 of the menu items. Can see that one can disable that iOS feature so I'm hoping the developers can figure out how to adjust the app so menus aren't blocked.

Really good but FIX UNDO BUTTON (please <3). Ok so this app is really good but here’s my feedback. When you press undo, UNDO THE ENTIRE ACTION! If I highlight a section of the piano roll and change the song to a different key for example and press undo, it only undos one note at a time. Even more often, when I record a section, I want the entire section to undo to try again. But no, the app only undos one note at a time. Developers, PLEASE fix this!!!

Pretty sweet!. This is really an amazing little app! The workflow and GUI are fantastic. In the future if you would consider adding at least 16 pads, longer pattern lengths, and perhaps and search function for the sample browser this could really be a little beast. (AU instruments and fx would be excellent but I also respect the simple ethos of the app. Many thanks!

It has potential. I apologize for past negative reviews, but I’ve had to uninstall/reinstall this multiple times. There are too many inconsistencies around how this works: sometimes it loads the metronome even when I don’t choose it. Other times it allows me to import sounds but it won’t allow me to delete those. Other times, it won’t record a sample into an empty pad.... Overall, it can be versatile for sequencing sample sounds.

Just one thing…. All I need is looping samples, so I can make my looping waveform oscillators. I got this app right when it came out, and I check on it every month or so. “Looping samples a thing yet? No? Ok…” I figured it had to be on the to-do list, but then again, maybe not. I can’t be the only one who wants this. We already have every other component we need for basic subtractive synthesis. This one feature would change everything…

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What I was looking for. When I first got an iPad I was disappointed in the lack of decent music making apps for it. I’m by no means a music producer but this is so far the most intuitive experience i and I think it’s worth the money

Seems amazing but not autosaving. Made a track in my first hour. Really intuitive and fun, was able to process daggy beat boxing into amazing sounds with the built-in effects. But! It crashed, which isn’t the end of the world, but no auto-save, lost project. Can re-load saved samples but all the processing has to be done again :( Doesn’t seem to save as automatically as other iPad DAWS/sequencers.

Love it but keeps crashing. Love the app. Really fun to use but it keeps crashing.

Love this!. This is a fun and entertaining app. It does have an issue or two tho. The program crashes and disappears when attempting to drag any pattern into the trash. I'd like to be able to enter a tempo directly rather that tap or use the up/down buttons. I'm mostly using it on an iPad with IOS16 but have the same issues on my iPhone, also IOS16. Thanks for a cool app!

No thanks. Awful interface and crashes. Prototype indeed.

Great music tool but there are many irritating bugs.. One of my main issues with the app is the constant crashing and lack of working metronome. I have been wanting to fix this issue for a while but it seems to be a bug. Flip Sampler also has issues when importing files, sometimes it fails to import or it imports with no audio. It becomes very frustrating when trying to make music on this app. I love this program to create music but it is starting to make me choose another app.

Awesome app, can’t wait to use!. So far, great experience, and I can’t wait to explore even further. Poor GUI integration with the newer iPhone 14 Pro. Elements of the interface are hidden behind the dynamic island, rendering them unusable :(

Awesome tool. A great tool for on the fly creativity, works smoothly and very approachable! The design of the app makes it easy to navigate and overall intuitive to use. It’s lots of fun to fiddle around with samples and sounds to make something, However, I found a bug(?) where there is a black bar on the side of my iPad 8th gen (10.2 inch screen). It seems to be a part of the screen which isn’t being used by the app.

Awesome app, amazing potential. I’ve been in a dry spell for quite a while struggling to get ideas into reality. Within an hour of using this I had some banging tracks. It’s super intuitive and just fun to make some music. It’s got a lot of potential and I have some suggestions; having more bars is a must (but I’ve heard that’s coming soon), looping samples with a button or loop start/end points would be awesome & assigning multiple parts of a sample to different keys could make it awesome for chopping vocals. The list goes on and on about how much cooler this app could become (on top of how great it is already). It would be the one stop shop for on the go music production in your pocket. Can’t wait to see what features come next!

Great Update!. I loved this app since it was released, and have used it quite a lot. But I got frustrated with the sample browser and the inability to make my own folders in the browser. That’s all fixed now. 10/10 update, exactly what I had been asking for! will continue to make good use of this as the only thing this iPad does! Thanks Andrew and Co.

Great app! I would like midi support. This app is a no brainer, i love it! It is easy to use and has a simple user interface. I would love midi support because i tried using my Akai MPKIII and i wasn't working. But anything other than that it is perfect sampler

The real pocket operator. Such a powerful and handy tool. I’m quite inexperienced with producing, so the fact that I can make a song I like so quickly was a awesome! I do wish there was a step sequencer for quicker sketching of ideas. And many of the more advanced sound design tools took a while for me to get my head around.

Unusable with Magic Keyboard on iPad Pro. App will crash instantly any key is hit on the attached keboard. This means that anything that requires interaction with the keyboard (such as naming any project or sample), or an accidental touch of a key will crash the app. Currently unusable until this is fixed.

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Pretty great but needs some tweaks.. This app is a very capable portable DAW. It’s much more usable on an iPad primarily because of one killer flaw in the UI; the Sequencer screen is pretty much unusable on an iPhone. It’s doable but so frustrating that I tend to just give up. That whole screen needs a complete re-work to function acceptably on a small touch screen. On the iPad I’ve enjoyed it much more but on both devices I do continue to run into crashing issues when attempting to manipulate tracks on the Performance screen. With a little more work this could be 5 stars all day.

Dawesome!. Love how intuitive this is, by far the best music production app for getting an idea sketched out on the fly. 🌈Thanks Andrew🦄

This is everything I wanted since I was a child and first got into music. I know some people have had some issues but I’m sure those will be ironed out over time. The ui and experience are great so far. The help button design is really useful (tapping on what you want to know about is really intuitive). I was able to start making stuff within minutes. Im so excited to have something that allows me to do what I’ve always wanted to since I got my first audio recorder as a kid.

Amazing. One thing i would really like would be the option to export individual samples/ airdrop. That would be a game changer. Simple and easy to use, very powerful sampler. Great for creating sounds on the go.

A Great app, but…. This is a great, portable sampler as intended by Andrew. However, the MIDI learn and clock sync functions don’t work to well with my Elektron Model:Cycles. It’s unfortunate, it would have been a nice way to expand the sound palette of my Model:Cycles (via the USB MIDI and the audio over USB capability of the Cycles). I am also experiencing some audio drop out. If it was not for these issues, this would be a killer app. Other things that could be improved is the possibility of moving/swapping the samples location on the 3x3 grid. More control over the randomization of the samples (like randomizing kicks samples only, as for instance implemented in the high end Polyend Play) would also be an awesome addition to Flip. Last but not least, velocity modulation of other parameters than just the volume would also be a welcome addition to make beat making and from finger drumming more expressive (like the decay of the hihat or the tuning of toms and other percussions… as for instance possible in the Model:Cycles). That’s it for my holiday wish list ! Keep up the great work Andrew and the Flip team and thank you for this wonderful portable sampler, despite some of the issues mentioned in this review that I have personally experienced thus far. Many thanks, John

Absolutely awesome. This sampler is fantastic. I really dig the easy parameter automation at different repeat lengths; it makes it very quick and easy to create interesting variations on ideas. I’d !!!LOVE!!! to see midi export in an update at some point. But honestly, asking for more than what this app already is feels like I’m being greedy. It’s so good!

Crash’s. Super duper fun. I love the user interface everything is fairly straight forward with a lot of capabilities. But it crashes a lot for me.

Not optimized for 14 Pro. The notch just cuts right into the controls

Shuts down. I don’t know why but the app always shuts down. I love the app a lot don’t get me wrong, I love every part of it and it’s quite cheap for the power house it is. But it’s frustrating I want to play with it, dig deeper and all but it keeps shutting down. :(

Love it, but…. I really like the work flow and sounds that can come out of this tiny little app, but I’ve run into a couple of frustrating glitches and crashes. On my iPhone 8, I haven’t come across many problems, but on my brand new iPad, the metronome glitches when you’re recording, and sometimes the loops will go out of sync. Weird distortion occasionally. Will crash if a couple apps are open and you’re overloading the app. Overall super fun and works great with splice and exporting stems/files to GarageBand for further arrangement. Would love some different effects for the sounds.

Very powerful sampler. This is a super accessible sampler with some good effects and a simple ui

I want to love it, but idk... The app looks very appealing, and you can make some amazing stuff on it, but the UX was off for me. I was often frustrated by the way the app works, lots of misclicks, functions not working, or even the undo crashing the app frequently. I think overall the app is great, but it definitely needs more attention on the touch functions, and make it more intuitive. I think the app could be really good with less bugs, and right now it feels like the app was made for mouse and keyboard. I hope to see the app improve to give it a try later in the future!

Get this!. Get it get it get it get it !!!!! GEETT ITTT !!!!!

Super great.. Really great features. Takes a little getting used to how everything works. Only issue found is that the microphone stays active after moving on to other apps.

Needs some work but I’m willing to stick around. Cool app but I found a bug in the first five seconds. When you click randomize and play a sound to hear it too many times the app crashes. Not sure if it’s a certain sound sample that has the problem or pressing the randomize button too many times. I tested and it’s only on pad 6 that it happens. Edit: oops now I can’t hear anything had to turn off my device, I’m on an iPad Pro Edit again: now I can hear again but half the sounds on pad 6 are inaudible. Plz fix :) Final edit: I can’t repeat the randomizer bug anymore but some of the sounds are still named with random numbered filenames and they don’t make sounds.

Missing one thing. Love the interface and freedom you get here. It just needs integration with apps like GarageBand so I can play with samples from other apps or import samples from Flip into other tools

worth the price. so fun!

Brilliant tool with many bugs. The app is designed great with a few bugs to iron out. Mainly, it repeatedly crashes on me with file saving and pad mapping + has also damaged my phone speaker. I was listening on low to a kick I made with my voice when all of a sudden loud, heavy static feedback. I’m on a iPhone 6S Plus. Have received no response from developers regarding my concerns. This app really deserves a 5 star if the developers were more responsive and empathetic.

Yes. I came across Flip through Andrew’s YouTube video. I initially didn’t realize Andrew was involved. My impression was it was a paid endorsement. I would describe the Flip app as taking cues from groove boxes, but it is ingenious because it uses your phone’s technology. I use the app for idea generation. I start a new project, and I intentionally use the randomization of the pad samples. Having a fresh mix of noises to play with really drives creativity. My workflow is as follows - I almost play with Flip like a video game experimenting with different ideas. Once I create something that excites me, I export the stems, which is a fantastic idea and upload the beat to my Google Drive. From that point, I load the stems (Wav format) into my DAW and begin building the character / developing the relationships between sounds more deeply. Flip being on my phone makes beat-making accessible. My dog woke me up this morning earlier than usual. While waiting for the dog to do what dogs do - I laid out the premise of a solid beat. The accessibility of Flip with the randomization of pad samples and the ability to export stems has made Flip very usable - and another source for beat creation. To be clear, I wouldn’t have described Flip as a new idea. Many products on the market exist that would be similar or potentially an improvement due to their maturity, but what makes Flip great is the fact isn’t competing with the more mature instruments out on the market. Flip is a portable application, and that is where this app shines. In this case, Flip is highly accessible, which means you have more opportunities to use Flip than alternatives. The more use, the more reward. Andrew stated in his Youtube video that there isn’t a better value proposition for the app’s cost, and I feel that isn’t an embellishment. The only suggestion I would make is expanding the help for the tape icon to clarify how to use the functionality. One of my fav apps.

Great fun app aaaaaaa. Love it and love Andrew huang

Wholly crap. Seriously though, this app does everything or plans to do everything. I can imagine it as a onstage tool for performance as much as a tool for woodshedding ideas. Thank you!

Amazing flexible sampler among other things. Requires auv3 for that final star from me - otherwise brilliant app all around.

Good app but found bug. If you disable microphone in permissions it won’t tell you, and it will simply quietly no longer record audio and it won’t tell you why.

Tanks... The sound is incredeble but Application crashes

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Ableton Link Bug?. Ableton Link isn’t working for me either. Five stars because holy cow! Full review to follow after I dive in!

Excellent with one weird glitch. This app is really good. Get instantly into some weird polyrhythmic amazing-ness. But tons of issues with automation quantize. Basically if I draw automation, it works... if I draw quantized automation, it gets turned to unquantized, as soon as I leave that pad. Quantized automation is sick for gating everything at random loop lengths, but it keeps switching off? Holler!

Sound problems. I like the set up because it easy to learn and stuff but I’m having a problem with audio. I can hear the sounds in the sound library but if I move them to the drum pad I can no longer hear them. I’ve made new projects, restarted my device, reset my settings and there is still no sound. What should I do?

Flipping love it!. Super powerful while still being approachable and intuitive. The samples are great and the video tutorials are comprehensive and concise. While there’s plenty of room for improvement and expansion, it’s already one of the best music creation apps in the App Store.

Awesome I like to see AudioCopy. Love the app is awesome super intuitive, I can wait for AUV3 but I think having AudioCopy audio share implementation would be awesome this app is so good already I can wait for the update and really hope in the audio copy audio share :)

This is the sampler app I’ve been looking for!. Andrew Huang is the one that got me inspire to get music everywhere and with everything. This app helps make it easier!

Almost perfect. Overall flip has been a fantastically fun app but there are a few bugs with crashing and whatnot but that’s when you are pushing its limits. Overall I say get it. It came out yesterday so they should have some patches come out but it is great right now

Approaching perfection. I wasn’t expecting this to be as enjoyable to use as Ableton, but it is incredibly intuitive and powerful. And if there is anything it can’t do itself, it makes everything easily exportable.

Can only imagine how many bugs I’ll encounter. Already, something as simple as throwing a pattern in the trash bin crashes the app (consistently, too). That is such a rudimentary thing to get right, I can only imagine what awaits me. Interesting app, definitely glad it exists, but I think I will wait for it to be in the oven a bit longer.

Feels like Ableton in the best way possible!. I am really blown away by how much you can do in this very lightweight app! And you can link it with Live? Buy this now!

Crashing a ton. Whenever I go to change a sample in the keyboard the app is crashing. Over and over again.

Fundamental Issues with the App. Updated review: Root note pitch option was added, previously lacking. Thanks devs! Overall wish the app had deeper options and customization; feels too simplistic at times. Would like to see inter app audio or audio unit extension functionality brought into the application so that it can be used with mobile DAWs and other software. Still early in its life, hopefully we’ll see more to come.

Keeps crashing on my iPhone 8 +. Was super stoked on this app but it keeps crashing on my phone. Should have plenty of power and space on my phone. Had only got a kick hat and snare laid down before I started having issues.

Amazing, Exactly What I’ve Been Looking For. Thanks Andrew Huang for putting this together. I’m still getting frequent crashes on the piano roll when using my own recorded samples. Though to be fair I’m running it on an iPhone SE from 2017, sooo... Either way I love it so far and I’ll update this after I have a chance to get more familiar with app. Super excited!

Great app, but keeps crashing. Love the app when it works. Still crashing all the time on iPhone XR when editing in sequencer.

Have your Cake and Eat it (maybe). Wow! This app has almost everything you need to make great tracks. Great potential but it’s almost like we were given a really BIG! Cake but we can only ever have 1 small slice. 9 samples is about 7 samples short of what is minimum (16). With only 9 samples it’s too easy to run out of sample space. Given this apps great! Potential 32 would also be awesome! Which could be organized as banks A B C D pleeeze 🙏😊 Let’s break the mold and open Flip up,to its fullest potential.

great for the price. it’s good it can do a lot of editing of samples before you actually get to make the beat, you can use samples from your files which is great, you can assign sounds to 9 separate pads, samples can be trimmed perfectly it’s a great app, obviously you’re not going to get studio quality audio effects but the samples will still sound good especially when you change parameters

Watch out Koala, there is a new kid in town…. Let me just start by saying that I love sampling apps. I use them quite a bit for my own music production. I pretty much own all the major samplers: Samplr, Koala, Borderlands Granular, Chomplr and Segments just to name a few. I have been following Andrew Huang on YT for some time now as I am a big supporter of mobile music production and he is consistently producing quality videos that I find valuable. I think it is safe to say that, at the moment of writing this review, that Koala is the big kid in town. I use Koala quite a bit and am very happy with the Samurai update. That aside, I do find that there are several elements to sampling that Koala currently lacks. I find that Flip checks many boxes in this regard. I think that Koala is probably Flip’s most obvious competition. I live the advanced features that Flip brings to the table. The Automation feature is sooooooo great, and it is surprisingly deep (with automation quantize it adds so many possibilities). Andrew also added many small features that only someone who regularly produces music would notice and love (small things like being able to change the octaves of the on screen dual keyboards, etc). I love the simple layout, like Koala it is pretty easy to engage with, but is perhaps a little less user friendly than Koala ( but that can only be because of all of the extra features that Flip employs that Koala lacks). Flip is definitely still in its very early stages and lacks several elements that I think everyone would like to see: AUV3 integration, the ability to make 8-bar loops or larger, better sample organization (ability to make folders), resampling (for synth) and time-stretching to name a few. This being said, Flip is a very impressive first edition and Andrew Huang has made it very clear that his team plans on improving the app over time and making frequent updates. It seems clear to me that Flip is going to become a tool I use more and more of. Easy 5-stars from me. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for Flip.

Not all hero’s where capes. Making high quality integrated daw workflow this accessible will have long lasting impact on the quality of digital music production for years to come. Thank you Andrew Huang!

Buggy / Crashes, but has potential. Really great UI and capabilities on this app. It is very buggy and crashes constantly. But hopefully they will fix those issues so this app is more useable

Recording live….. Can’t figure out how to record live sounds with my phone to then cut up and sample, that’s why I got it….

future of music making. ARM is good that is all this app is great

Missing samples. I’m missing all of the stock samples, any fix to this? Update: pressing the restore button did not solve my problem. Any help?

Great for beginners. Get this app. Watch a few tutorials. Learn a ton, in a short amount of time, and pretty soon you’ll be making music! Easier on tablet than phone but great on both!

Great!!!. this is great! It would be interesting to see an additive synth though, just because that’d be interesting.

Pitch detection nightmare. Thanks you guys for all the awesome updates, you’ve created an amazing music tool. I know that with software there’s always room for improvement, but right know the app feels really mature.

A problem. It’s a good app no doubt about that made a few little beats but it’s always shutting off on its own like it can’t handle anything even though I have an iPhone XR

Could be good. I badly want to like this app but there is always something wrong with it. Right now it’s lagging real bad. Super frustrating. Before it was a bunch of other nuanced stuff.

Wooooo NIcE. Andrew!!!! Nicely done man! Gonna up my sample game. Been playing with this for over an hour and I’m in love dude. DoPe!!! -the grumpy showman

the app won’t open. this isn’t really a review i guess, but the app just won’t open. i’ll click on it to open it but it just closes immediately. i don’t if i’m doing something wrong or if it’s the app, but i just can’t figure it out. i was really excited to finally get this app and play around with it but this has just really disappointed me and i’m just confused what’s wrong. if i could get any help or information on what could possibly be wrong and how i could fix it it would be greatly appreciated. for now only two stars, but if i can get the app actually running i’ll definitely change that

midi control?. Is it possible to trigger samples and loops with a controller? cant see it anywhere...

Bluetooth. It may seem small but the Bluetooth support on this app is not that great. I like to use this app on the go. The AirPods Pro have huge latency issues. Hope there’ll be a fix soon.

How do I save a pattern? Or a project?. Andrew is awesome, which is why I got the app. I look forward to using it more. I know how to save a sample, thanks to the icon. But how to save a pattern or project? I’ve watched the quick start and the mega video. I’ve searched the app high and low. I’ve tried the [?] button. I find no mention of saving a project, only seem able to load one. Please halp! I’m missing something...

Great app with some early bugs. Great UI and once I watched the tutorial, I felt like I had what I needed to start creating music. With that excitement came some disappointment when some of my samples lost their effects (pitch, reverb) after restarting the app. Hopefully this is fixed bc I want to get back to making music with Flip but right now it’s undoing lots of time put in with this bug.

Love it. I love how much this app has to offer! There’s a lot you can do on it and I myself have had a ton a fun on it already even if I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’m excited to see where this app goes in the future.

AudioShare update is a game changer!. Love the AudioShare integration. Game changer! I’ve successfully made samples in other apps, chopped em in AudioShare, and loaded them into Flip all on my iphone7! Loving the new Rachel Collier sample pack as well. Thanks for all the updates based on suggestions. You guys are listening!

Seriously innovative. This is one of the coolest music production apps I have ever used. Being a fan of Andrew for a few years now, it’s been so cool to see him grow to this point and he entirely went above and beyond. I absolutely recommend this app, it blew my expectations out of the water.

Latency. Got the app when it came out. I tried to push through latency issues on my iphone XR for a while.. but ended up putting it down for months. — Seems like w great app... Kinda unusable when every hit happens like .25 seconds later.

Cant record synth?. Im having a lot of issues when trying to record my synth ive tried adapters into the headphone slot and always have constant feedback like a resting guitar amp and when i use the midi to lighting adapter it doesnt take sound from the synth at all, PLEASE HELP how can i get the app to record the audio being output from my synth

Crashes frequently. Great sample groove box but needs more refinement. Crashes happen so frequently that they break creative flow. Several crashes have resulted in corrupted sound files as well.

Easy to create. This app allows me to make beats very quickly and easily. It’s a lot of fun but it crashes a lot. In the hour I was fooling around with it it crashed 3 times. Hopefully will see the devs fix this issue.

Great ideas are in place but it is super buggy for me.. I love Andrew and the work he put into this but at the same time every time I use it, it has a different weird glitch that happens every time 5 minutes in. I have a new iPad Air. Wish I knew what to do

No Bluetooth MIDI or External Control support??. Been watching Andrew’s channel for years, so I was excited to learn he brought a new sampler app to market. That said, very disappointed there’s no Bluetooth MIDI support for external controllers. Would love to use my Korg Nanokey Studio with this on the go. Come on Andrew - help a brother out! <3

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨. I hate with a passion the ad pop up every time you start the app it makes me not even want to use it we already know there’s a sound pack store we don’t need to be reminded every time we want to use it

I’m Cookoo for CUCKOO!. Andrew’s new DAW on a phone is INCREDIBLE! And OH MY GOD!! Cuckoo, one of the BEST YT synth reviewers and tutorials makers, who I call the “Bob Ross of music”, has an IAP pack of 50 sounds! Must buy!

Well designed tool. Actually rad. Just started using it and made a really cool loop. Everything is very intuitive so far and I’m surprised at how many features it has.

It does more than you think it does!. RTFM and watch the videos. People say it doesn’t do this or that but it actually does. I love it!!

Almost perfect.. Just wish it could connect with logic somehow

Absolutely amazing!!!. I love this app so much. The ui works perfectly for any iOS device and the work flow is very intuitive and very Andrew. Highly recommend!!!

Amazing sometimes.. I love the app when it works as it should, that being said I bought two sample packs but it won’t let me download them.😒 I would like some help with that.