Not quite ready for prime time. – VoKey Review

The iPad music scene really does need a good traditional sampler app. VoKey is not it. First, the pictures in the preview is all you get for the interface. No help, or deeper setting screen to help you get idea what is going on. Second, yes you can map parts of a sample file across the keyboard but it no where close to traditional sampling system. You have no control over root note for tuning, and you can only load one sample at a time. It sports virtual MIDI but there nothing to indicate when it it using back ground processing or which virtual midi channel it is on, but then again it never showed out as a receiver in my other virtual midi apps. Timestretch is nice to have but there is no obvious way to specify what you want to time stretch to. I bought this because VoKey touted a good lists of specs and Audiobus, and I wanted something like a traditional late 80's Pro sampler keyboard like a ESP or Emax. This is not it, if fact I am not exactly sure what kind of sampler VoKey is trying to be. If VoKey radically improves over the past few months, then I won't feel ripped off, but right now I feel disappointed. If they would at least add a bit-crusher effect, it would help.
Review by FTGabumon on VoKey.