the web-app could technically be wrapped as a standalone desktop app, even though most can be CI, there is still an effort maintaining it for mac, win, etc. is it to make sure it can be used offline?
in the transfer tool, we’ve talked about allowing samples to be stored in lower sample/bit-rates. you can always speed-up on your desktop and then slow down in the EP
since you want different play-modes + loop off/on/rev etc. you end up with too many options with our limited knob-space. but a fun ‘hack’ could be to simply let you name the samples [loop-rev] [loop-ping-pong] and it would respect that