Vancouver producer and developer Jeremiah Klein (CISU) has launched Echo Beach, an iOS sampler app that can get your ideas down before the moment passes.
The new Echo Beach iOS sampler app is designed to solve a problem every producer knows too well: those hundreds of unusable voice notes cluttering your phone. Hummed melodies in the shower, weird sounds you captured at 2am, a beat tapped on your lap. Echo Beach transforms these raw moments into tempo-synced, metadata-rich loops ready for your DAW in under a minute.
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Unlike mobile samplers that attempt to cram an entire studio onto your screen, Echo Beach strips things back to essentials. The interface takes cues from vintage hardware, such as the SP-1200 and MPC, prioritising speed and feel over endless menus. Long-press any pad to sample, release to stop. That’s it.
Pad 1 automatically calculates BPM from your loop’s start and end markers. Tap the waveform to slice, and you will simultaneously create MIDI notes. Drag those slices across eight pads to redistribute a beatbox or melody in seconds. Optional pitch detection even maps sung melodies to MIDI notes.
Time signature flexibility covers 3/4, 4/4 and 7/4, while a single groove fader morphs between feel templates – from machine-tight to Dilla-esque swing without fiddling with percentages. The app’s design philosophy is refreshingly simple: listen, feel, don’t intellectualise.
When you export, audio and MIDI files include embedded BPM, time signature and swing data, snapping to your DAW’s grid instantly. Session sharing preserves the complete state, and there’s USB-C MIDI support with custom mapping.
Klein built Echo Beach from personal frustration with the friction between mobile capture and studio production. It’s the first in a planned series of six focused mobile music tools, and it launched on 21 October for iOS.
Download via the App Store.
