Sound Byte Cart Machine App App Reviews

A good cart machine for theatre, dj, radio etc.

Finally the best Cart-Mashine in the store. Keep going on!

Works very nicely for school concerts and other public performances where quick and easy control over soundtracks is needed. Once set up, a banjo monkey could run this thing.

Ive tried a bunch of apps for playing songs between whistles at hockey games. Nothing else comes close. The ability to fit so many buttons on screen at once with color coding and independent start times is great. Would like a larger stop button with nothing close to it so I dont have to worry about starting another song by accident when the puck drops.

Good app and works with purchased outright music on device but does NOT work with offline Apple Music subscription songs nor offline Spotify tracks. No help from support... Not even acknowledging receipt of email... Poor service!

I have been using Sound Cart for about four months to play sound effects and music for minor hockey games. I find it very useful for this purpose. The app provides a wide range of colour and text options to distinguish one button from another. I also like that it gives me the option to overlay an already-played sound effect with "played", so that I dont mistakenly play something more than once during a game. The user interface is fairly basic so it is easy to learn. Overall, I think it was worth the purchase price. There arent too many apps available on the app store that offer this functionality and not many reviews for any of them, either. I took a flyer on this app and am glad I did. I dont know if this qualifies as a bug or perhaps it was my fault, but one time I found that the clips linked to all my cart buttons had disappeared. I had to relink everything again. I also find that when I am linking music to various buttons, the app starts to lag after the fifth or sixth button. By this I mean that there is an increasing delay in the process of bringing up the music library, searching for the sound you want to link, then confirming the selection. I find that restarting the app improves performance so I do this every few buttons. A few features that I would find handy for future updates to the product: 1. Provide the ability to duplicate carts. I use multiple carts, alternating between them during home games. Each cart has the same button layouts, though, with different sound effects and songs linked to each button. It would have saved me time if I could duplicate an entire cart with one click, as opposed to having to configure each one button by button. 2. Provide a volume slider. When the puck drops, I stop the music. The app has two options for this: fade or pause. Pause stops the song abruptly as you would expect and gives me the option to restart the song at the same spot if there is another stop in play right after the puck is dropped. Fading the song out would be preferable but clicking the fade button means that I cant pick the song up again at the same location - the clip is reset. A volume slider would allow me to fade the song manually and then pause it - the best of both worlds. Sure, I could click the volume buttons on my ipad but a slider would be more elegant. Overall, a great app. Kudos to the developer! Later edit: I changed my rating for this app from four stars to five. The developer incorporated the volume slider into the latest version and fixed the issue where successive links made the app slower. Thanks for listening!

I use this app for DJing hockey and other sports, and its excellent; easy to customize and colour code carts, very easy to use and configure. Id highly recommend this app to anyone involved in sports, as I use this app exclusively for hockey and very comparable to high-end desktop cart apps radio stations and other sports DJs use. One feature Id like to see is ability to create a playlist by touching carts and they play in that order. Other then that, this app rocks. :)

Great app for small theatre live performance! Best application, that I found for my needs (playing ambient sounds, sound effects, etc). Only reason, I rate it 4, because, imo, to be perfect, this app needs midi support!

I wish Id had this years ago when I was in radio. MUCH more intuitive than a stack of carts and having to remember which ones are queued back up and which have to be between breaks.

Use this with hockey team for music during play stoppages. Works great!

This was almost what I needed but it doesnt support split screen on the iPad. So I can either have this or my notes, not both running. It also doesnt have any support for iCloud or Dropbox loading of sounds. This isnt as big a deal since there is a workaround, but not having split screen support is a deal breaker for me.

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This is an incredible tool that I use 5 days a week on my live morning show. The sound quality is incredible and the performance is pretty decent. There are a couple things that I would change but this is an invaluable tool for my work.

This app is great. I am working as a PA announcer for local youth hockey games and this does everything I need. Perfect app for what I am doing.

It started out fairly primitive but the developer keeps adding functionality and streamlining the interface. I give high praise for this app.

Just what I was looking for to play songs at my sons hockey games when I run the clock. Allows me to set the cut in time so you can get to the main parts of the songs immediately for short stoppages such as offsides. Would love to see upgrades to the aesthetics and ease of use of the interface. The biggest upgrade that would use is the ability to use iCloud to sync carts and settings across devices and provide a backup. I recently had to get a new iPhone and lost all of my songs cut in times and volume adjustments and have to set everything up all over again.

The only thing its missing is fast foward and rewind. That is a most for rehearsals. With that it would be perfect.

Perfect for theatre sound effects.

This has been the best, easiest, most functional music playback app Ive used in a live telecast environment. Still hoping for a few more improvements: - ability to swap entire racks/pages (re-ordering), or moving carts from one page to the next - provide a time played of each track (adding the trt to the play-log) - being able to copy the entire setup to another device via the cloud (to have a backup)

Have been looking for an effective way to play what is on my iPad for theatre music and sound fx that is easily controlled on cue. This is it!! Very happy with this app!