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Elsa is a retro style sampling keyboard with tempo based looping. Record, save, load, reverse samples with a multi octave on screen keyboard or plug in your core midi device of choice, soft- or hardware. Elsa comes with three built in effects, a reverb, a resonant filter and a sample rate/bit crusher. Samples are looped in three different modes, one off, forward and/or forward-reverse. The start and end of playback also comes in three modes, one set of start and stop for all, one set per note and/or one set per octave, allowing for many different types of samples. Additionally at playback time, sample length can also be controlled by a set of sample dividers, 1-8.
Category Price Seller Device
Music $4.99 erik sigth iPhone, iPad, iPod

+++ Sample keyboard
+++ Tempo based looping
+++ ADSR
+++ Bit/sample rate crush
+++ Reverb
+++ Resonant band pass filter
+++ Record, trim, normalise, reverse, pre note shift, zoom
+++ Multi octave keyboard
+++ 3 loop modes (one off, forward, forward-reverse)
+++ 3 start/stop modes (one for all, one per note, one per octave)
+++ Playback length dividers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
+++ Arpeggiator
+++ Presets, save/load settings
+++ Import/export ACP 2.0
+++ Inter app audio
+++ Audiobus
+++ Core Midi
+++ Link

Reviews

I have the bundle!
anickt

The controls are somewhat cryptic but once you know what they do (as the on-screen hints indicate) you will find these are very cool apps.


Shut up and take my money !!!
Drumloop808

Love it!


Humbletune's most beautiful app yet
High five ghost's cousin

I've got most of humbletune's apps. They are all simply fun. e-l-s-a is the best to date, and that's saying something. Humbletune is very responsive, another plus.


Need alt color scheme
Alien_brain

Can't read or see details of ui. needs higher contrast color scheme. cryptic ui as well and can't see type in user guide. iOS needs samplers so please fix so I can use! Reserving higher rating until then but am excited about possibilities.


V1.1 crashes on iPad iOS 5.1
trebelknob

V1.1 crashes on iPad iOS 5.1 but works fine on later devices... and the logo on the opening screen is even crooked! Please fix when you get the chance.


beautiful
Guy South

really pleasing GUI. sounds great. love the updates.


Searching for "Elsa"
bandoneonabandon

Turns out a hilarious bounty of Disney Frozen apps. How many of those do kids need? I finally kept scrolling and found this. I downloaded Strng after a recent interest in physical modeling synthesis without realizing that there are many more great apps you had done. And I'm quite obsessed with sample based synthesis right now (with Samplr iPulsaret iDensity etc). This is a really lovely bit of gear. Your work deserves more attention. With this app, I feel compelled to make a new synth from every patch that I have ever made on my analog. But with every note of the scale slightly different. Really such subtlety beautiful possibilities here. This is the kind of thing where the less than 5 star reviews made me mad so I felt the necessity to write this. Your colors are perfect by the way.


Didn't work out for me
Chinchilla Wafers

Was looking for a sampler for ios, and gave this one a good try, but abandoned it after several hours of trying to get it to work. In general the interface was too obscure and minimal for a sampler. The envelope controls don't seem to work right, or at least as intended. The tempo based looping is a very cool idea, and the changing subdivision of tempo, but all of the loops are plagued by unartistic pops and clicks every time it loops. The effects are cool, the bitcrusher especially.


Best sampler on iOS!
Ian S.

This is one of my favorite iOS music apps! It's got a nice minimal a e s t h e t i c but has the ability to infinitely warp the hell out of your sample library. The drum pad setting is sick, especially if you put a few slices/hits in the same sample file and you can assign a key per hit. The FX sound great, Ableton Link support is really nice as well. The dark mode is also the bee's knees. Anyway, get this app and learn it's awesomeness!


When you want 'other'. And you do.
Wįll

Brilliant app. Very easy to come up with new, interesting sounds.


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