I have an answer for this question it would be a lot easier to drop audio units into Koala’s mixer channels than doing a multi-instance Koala setup in AUM. Plus, with Koala standalone you can control it with the QWERTY keyboard.
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Sort of.
Ive been scouring youtube for old drum breaks. Sampling them and making loops. Assigning those loops to pads.
Now Ive got the ipad next to my drum kit, Im picking a loop to play along to, learn the break, improve my drumming.
At some point I’ll record myself playing those loops, and my own iterations of them and use them in my own tunes.
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@jrjulius that’s awesome, yeah I’d love some pics or a screen recording. It’s fascinating seeing how others work. I really feel you regarding moving projects out of Koala, there’s something about the summing in Koala that I can’t replicate elsewhere, plus clipping the master sounds fabulous in a lot of instances. It’s definitely got its own sound.
@Microtribe this is a cool aproach, I’m currently working on a Kit in Koala cos I used it with my shite electric kit. Plus it works like a project template. Here’s a screen cap of my WIP project;
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Here’s the work-in-progress: https://youtube.com/shorts/XZqc9Iar-fI?si=0FkJIDSv08VTSUUy
The tambourine and most of the drums are from One Up Loops. I’m not affiliated in any way but a) the library is incredible and b) they’re Calgary-based so I try to shill for them at every opportunity.
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If Marek has made a decision on how he and his team wants to progress with the development of the app following this philosophy of providing the same experience for all platform to everyone, I think we should respect it instead of blatantly call his decision stupid. Redirect your frustration into a feature request to Google instead to make sure they up their game for the audio on Android. Much more constructive.
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Well, you seem frustrated about the app development in your previous post and judging by your latest respons that general frustration seem to carry on. So you do seem to care, otherwise you would give two cents about it. You only seem to mirror your view on others.
For us that do care about Koala, I think it is admirable that we have got an MPC/SP like workflow on our devices for the price of a lunch out. Also thankful that we keep getting amazing updates to the app for FREE. Therefore I have zero complains about the pace of development of the app. Haven’t encounter other apps that provide what Koala does.
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If you’ve not got anything nice to say, best to say nothing at all. This is the Koala thread, noone is making you post here. You’re kinda making this shit for everyone else.
As an aside @jrjulius that’s sounding awsome 
vibey as hell and the little pitch shift transition is sick, I’ll be stealing that. 
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One of the things Koala has in common with Elektronauts; a mute button.
Fortunately, Koala doesn’t have trolls dumbing it down. Rather than getting wound up folks, it’s easier to just Mute irritating accounts on here.
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Too much conflict (aka flags) in this one to let it continue over NYE - try to keep it civil come '25
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y’all i’m really late to the party in learning that anything i have playing on my phone’s speakers can be recorded in Koala with no extra steps. holy moly
then i tried with Fieldscaper as well and it’s the same story. my phone is gonna be fulllllll
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Errr … I also missed that. How is it done ?
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if something is playing in an app in the background, i switch apps to koala and then hold a koala pad. boom. it’s recording.
i just tried it again now to test another app. i’m watching a movie on Max and koala just sampled what i held the pad down for.
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It records from the microphone though
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i guess i didn’t notice that part. so we can assume samples will not have much bass, eh?
So screen-recording followed by import is still the better option then, I guess ?
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Screen record, import video, delete video 
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I’m sure this has been discussed before but what’s people’s approach on YouTube sampling? I love how easy it is on Koala but then sometimes struggle to make it fit the mix with more hi res sounds….
Any fx or eq you use to improve the sound quality? Or you just go with the lo fi sound a la Fred Again?
Bought the app today after debating for a long time. But honestly, what’s 5 bucks.
Playing around with it for a while, it’s quite a cool app, but I have to say that the default pitch shifting algorithm is basically unusable for melodies. As soon as you pitch a sound up more than a couple semi tones the formants get destroyed. I’m assuming that’s where the time-stretch algorithm that you can buy extra with the Samurai expansion comes in, but I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that the default built in one is so useless lol.
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More usefull than DT2
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