Sound Byte Cart Machine App App Reviews

I have a radio show on the UC Berkeley college station. Our Dad-Pro cart player is limited to two spots and takes a little pre-meditated action to load up. I enjoy the ability to have quick audio spots available for instantaneous show support and this app makes that all possible. I use it for SFX, some bed music, time buying filler (as we are cuing real vinyl and CDs on air) my show opening theme and whatever else the weeks programming calls for. Its easy to load, manipulate and play from using the iPad. Any complaints I had seem to have been worked out from the earlier version. I love it and rely on it, great app if you have need for this kind of thing.

Once music synched with iPad (rather than trying to use iCloud) was able to transfer and use. Will proceed to test further.

This app is working great for my radio show. One thing I would like to see improved is the color selection for the carts. I would like to be able to enter a specific color value for each cart. Right now you have to drag your finger around and be extremely lucky if you can get the same exact color more than once. Otherwise, this app is worth the cost. Thanks!

Downloaded this app last minute as I was comparing it to other apps and needed one that day for a pro sports stadium. The organization is great. One thing that would make this app better would be to easily tap a drag sound to rearrange how they are organized. Other than that inbound this app to be great.

This product has made producing a podcast very simple. Once I figured out the interface with iTunes, I had had no problems with the app.

Most important feature: its reliable. When you chose a cart, it plays immediately, even if you have the starting point queued to the middle of a song somewhere. It doesnt hang, glitch, stutter, or pause. What Id love to see added: 1) Overdrive. Some songs are much quieter than others, and it seems that this is not common... It would be nice to be able to set playback volume to 150% or more for that occasional song that is too quiet. (Easier than just reducing the volume of all of the other songs to level everything . 2) Mic patch. It would be great to be able to use the iPad mic to do voice overs. Maybe a button at the top? 3) Squeeze in one more column on the largest grid size.

Im a professional audio engineer, and I use this app all the time for a daily talk show that I mix, and for a number of corporate clients presentations. Its useful for playing music cues as well as sound effects, and they can be loaded quickly from my Mac laptop. Playback priority can be set for each cue, and volume is adjustable. Heads of cues can be edited in seconds and fractions (ie: 2.43 seconds) and individual cues can be looped for a specific number of times. I hope that they add tail edits in a future update. Well worth the cost.

The one major flaw is that this app only allows for importing from iTunes. It would be better if it was able to import from other apps and export the cued song to another app like audiobus or bossjack. I wanted to use this app to store audio files when using with bossjack so I can produce podcasts.

Just what I was looking for to play songs at sporting events. Would love to see upgrades to the aesthetics and ease of use of the interface. Also would be great if the app used iCloud to sync carts and settings across devices.

Just what I needed to add music to my announcing at my sons baseball game. My only small quible is with the coloring, for organization, of the buttons, where I must dial up a custom color each time. But, I would certainly recommend this.

I have used the computer version of Sound Byte for years and love it. Its excellent for music cues during live shows, etc., and its also great for the camera director to see the alert on the sound guys screen to know when the cue is going to end. I was very happy to see the iPad version! With some minor tweaks, it will be the best out there in my opinion.

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.

I use this to play music during events at my school. It is simple to use and elementary students can easily handle it. I do wish they would have more features like allowing you to have more than five racks and the pad graphics could be improved.

Needed sound effects. Tried downloading 3 times. Nothing. Wasted my money now need to buy something else. What a waste.

This product is a great tool for podcasters, DJs, etc... Double thumbs up!!

I have used this app for game night productions for the last 5 years and it has never let me down! Very customizable and quick response helps to create the game night experience for the fans. Getting things ready for year #6!

I was looking for an app that could easily play back a variety of songs and sound effects QUICKLY - a la the 360 Systems Instant Replay machine that radio stations use - and this app has turned out to be EXACTLY what I was looking for. It has just enough flexibility for customizing the setup so it behaves the way you want it to, but its also simple enough to let you set up and get going QUICKLY.

Part of the blame is iTunes. But not all. When either loose the songs and sound bytes it takes forever to load them all back in. Do not accidentally remove a playlist (especially if your boards are full)... I dont know if this could be fixed but man what a hassle. other than that a couple more boards might be great, this app in it self is awesome! Especially anything like this on a PC cost well over $100...anyway....

I needed a better way to play recorded sounds for a small theater. I had used other editing apps, but the end result was that there was still a fair amount of hand work to play the track just right, every time! With Sound Byte, once you have the starting point and length entered, the piece plays perfectly, on time, at the same point, every time! At the push of a button! The flexibility and design is remarkable. On my iPad Air 2 it is spacious, but for one handed ease of use, I prefer it on my iPhone 5. Try it, you will like it!

Super simple, works great. Would love it if there was some way for it to override all the sounds on the iPad so messages and notifications dont play through. Its a pain to have to turn all those off manually.