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Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic instantly. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!

Price $4.99
Author Mazbox Limited
Type Instrument
Instrument type Sampler
Instrument sounds Other
Supports Audiobus, Ableton Link
Rating total: 4.75874 (1459), current: 4.75874 (1459)
Version 2.0.15
Released 02/28/2019
Updated 10/16/2026
Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic or load your own sounds. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!

Koala's super intuitive interface helps you make a track in a flash - there is no brake pedal. You can also resample the output of the app back into the input, through the effects, so the sonic possibilities are endless.

Koala's design focuses totally on making the music-making process instant, keeping you in the flow and keeping it fun, not getting bogged down by pages of parameters and micro-editing.

"Been putting that $4 koala sampler to good use lately. Undeniably great tool that puts some of these expensive beat boxes to shame. A must cop."
-- flying lotus, twitter

* Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
* Transform your voice or any other sound with 16 superb built-in fx
* Load your own samples
* Choose from one of 250 built-in sounds
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Direct export to Ableton Live Set
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import samples from the Files app or even from videos
* Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
* Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
* Normal/One-shot/Loop/Reverse playback of samples
* 6 Choke groups
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls and note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* AUv3 compatible - use in GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis etc etc
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard, map the effects to knobs
* Jam with others over WiFi with Ableton Link
* Free copy of Ableton Live Lite included
* AudioShare compatible
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Set your own background image and choose from a growing list of background visual FX

8 Built-in Microphone FX:
* More Bass
* More Treble
* Fuzz
* Robot
* Reverb
* Octave up
* Octave down
* Synthesizer

16 Built-in DJ Mix FX:
* Bit-crusher
* Pitch-shift
* Comb filter
* Ring modulator
* Reverb
* Stutter
* Gate
* Resonant High/Low Pass Filters
* Cutter
* Reverse
* Dub
* Tempo Delay
* Talkbox
* VibroFlange
* Dirty
* Compressor

Features included in SAMURAI In-App Purchase
* Pro-quality Timestretch (5 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats, Re-pitch and Cyclic)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* 3 Band EQ
* Pocket operator sync out
* Quokka Synth - powerhouse polyphonic synthesizer
* MIDI Out - control external MIDI hardware with Koala's sequencer
* Chopper - multimodal sample chopping instrument

Features included in MIXER In-App Purchase
* Mix your beats professionally with a 4 channel mixer + main bus
* Route any sample to any channel
* Mute/solo, faders and accurate metering on every channel
* 5 effect slots per channel
* 29 high-quality effects - compressors, filters, phasers and more, with new effects to come
* Host AUv3 plugins - both audio effects and instruments

Version 2.0.15 release notes

- Automation for bus effects, mixer channels and plug-in synths and effects - New "Same pad mapping for all banks" option in MIDI settings - map the 16 pads once and the selected bank decides which pads your notes play. The bank selector can be MIDI mapped too. Switch it off and each of the 64 pads keeps its own mapping, as before - MIDI map mode can now be toggled from the QWERTY keyboard (default key `;`) or from a mapped MIDI control - iPhone Duo support - Looper recording (swipe down on a pad) now starts and stops cleanly on the bar line, including when you stop just after the bar - Pad to MIDI note mapping is now a fixed 4x4 layout whatever the window shape, so a sequence recorded with the AUv3 open in portrait plays back on the right pads once the window is closed - Fixed grid keyboard getting stuck after a scale change near the end of the range - Appending sequences now copies their parameter automation too

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