Developer Jeremiah Klein has introduced Echo Beach, a new iOS sampler that’s designed to make it easy to get ideas “out of your head and into your DAW”.
Klein says that “Echo Beach does what most samplers don’t – it gets out of your way. No menu diving. No trying to be your entire studio. Just fast, tactile sampling for the subway beatbox, the weird door sound, the melody you hummed at 2am.”
Features:
- 8-Pad Sampler: Load, trim, loop, and play like classic MPCs
- Smart Slice Detection: Auto-chop or edit transients manually
- Built-In Step Sequencer: Program beats and rhythms instantly
- Groove Engine interpolates between 8 templates from quantized to Dilla-esque swing
- Studio FX: Reverb, delay, pitch and revesefor a polished sound
- Factory Sounds Bank (B): Professional samples included to start immediately
- Voice Note Ready: Record directly or import your sounds
- DAW Export: Send stems and/or MIDI with full BPM + time-signature metadata
- BPM Auto-Detection – automatically syncs loops to tempo
- Low Latency playback
- MIDI controller support with MIDI Map mode to customize to your controller.
- Export the session and share
Pricing and Availability:
Echo Beach is available now for $3.99 USD.
Great timing, just yesterday I was wondering what samplers were worth using on IOS that aren’t Koala. Stoked to see this today! Looks like Echo Beach is the 303 to Koala’s MK2. Heads know what that means.
But it’s not an AUV3, but the dev says it’s coming. No resampling or audio-in sampling mentioned in the specs. Hmm… If those are added I’ll take it to Breakdance Beach.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrzg4KlK4JQ
As a first try it’s ok, but there is latency on the pads and the default looping is annoying. I’m sticking with Koala, but if the devs work out kinks this may be a good and cheap student alternative.