AudioLayer

*Updated Review* I’ve updated my review from 1 Star to FIVE Stars because this developer is actually very responsive, and updates their app in response to issues! I absolutely love this app, but just one request. The latest 2.0 update caused an issue where the layer voice polyphony controls no longer work properly…allowing your device to simply accrue voices until the app crashes! (Try sliding down the keyboard with the sustain pressed and you will see what I mean…). This is a KEY feature for us live players who need to be able to limit voice counts so our iPads don’t crash on stage. Also there is a minor issue not allowing you to copy layers between instruments, can you address this as well? This is great for being able to transfer damper/sustain/articulations between different sampled instruments. Overall though, this is a great app! Love all the work this developer does! Keep it coming! My original review is still listed here below. I used to LOVE this app! Closest thing to Kontakt for the iPad! But with this latest update, it no longer allows me to load custom exs24 or sfz instruments? It gives me this error that says samples are missing? I’m not sure why this just started happening after I updated, but if youguys can fix this, then 5-Star rating for sure! Sorry for the bad review, but this is going to be a killer if this issue never resolved! Please let me know if youguys can fix this. Thank you! PS. Midi Volume control in the future would be a nice feature I think.

This has always been a decent app, and nowadays it might even be very good. I’ll definitely update this review as I explore the updates that have passed since I stopped using it because of an issue I used to have sampling as AUV3 fx. It would crash after sampling/configuring more than 5-6 samples/layers. I do feel like this has been addressed but since I’m only going about this from what I remember from reading the update notes of the updates I missed (which I read as such updates came out but never actually explored since I’ve been kind of busy ever since). If this has been fixed I will come back for a 5 star update, as otherwise this app was pretty good even with the issues it had.

The amazingly badly designed user interface makes this potentially powerful app all but useless. You either have to import everything all at once via the poorly documented batch operation, or delete it all, edit outside the app, and try again. Made a small error? Delete it all and start again because the user interface makes selecting and changing small elements too difficult? Selected the wrong thing and you want to deselect so that you can see what’s going on? Forget it: tap in an empty space and you get the load dialog. Tap out of that, and your unwanted selection is still there. Pinch zoom into make it easier to select? Forget it: pinch zoom is so limited, you can never make tiny elements large enough to manipulate. So just edit their data fields by hand? Forget it: you can view the data for each zone, but you can change things via the graphical interface. Sometimes the tiny graphical control items don’t even appear on the screen. Simply scroll to one side to make them visible? Forget it: they’re so far to the side that the iPad always snaps the screen back to push the elements out of sight again. So reach blindly and hope you grab the right thing and placed it in the right spot? There you go! But oops you made a small placement error, so manually delete everything, do another batch import, and do it all over again. Classic case of logical, theoretically correct, yet utterly incompetent user interface design. Thinking of buying this tedious time waster? Forget it!