Very useful app
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!
jeremymercer about
Sound Byte Cart Machine App, v1.6.0