Our App Of The Day – Sample Lab
Fotoh LLC, an innovative new mobile developer focused on music themed applications, has announced the successful recent update of Sample Lab for the iPad. This engaging mobile music mixing utility allows users to record their own original music samples or import their favorite songs from iTunes. Newly updated to include professionally styled punch-in recording and looping functions, as well as support for MIDI controller inputs. This beat making app is unique because while its geared to be accessible by even novices to the audio mixing game, its functionality and sheer flexibility is varied enough to prove useful enough for even the most serious musicians.
As our App of Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a whole day. Just scroll to the bottom of this page to take a look.
Music is in many ways a tactile experience, and Sample Lab strives to keep this sensation intact by bringing users an audio mixing/ sampling utility that blasts through the normally mundane or downright tedious learning curve to mastering this type of software, and letting them instantly begin mixing, sampling, and sequencing music the instant the open the application. This app includes a diverse array of features including everything from a pinch-zoom precision sample editor to a multi-touch sequencer to build your compositions, as well as many other useful audio mixing tools. Furthermore, Sample Lab includes over one hundred preset samples which are available at the user’s disposal the moment they download the app to help them get started.
This app may be marketed in part as an audio toy for engaging music mixing enthusiasts, but its range of uses wholly transcends this slender moniker. Sample Lab – though geared towards all types of users – allows serious musicians to thrive as well. The app has a variety of import options, and sport a user interface that is intuitive and easily comprehensible to such an extent that it can be used effectively during live performances as well.
In fact, users can do everything from triggering samples to play, slice up beats in real-time, and record or drop-in layers of vocals, and so much more, without ever stopping the music! There’s a good deal of musical gimmicks out for the iPad, Sample Lab isn’t one of them. This is a refreshingly usable audio sampling/ mixing utility that has the power to both bring out anyone’s inner DJ as well as helping established musicians reach their full potential even if they’re on the go.
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Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
