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Update- Had a chance to rediscover Hook recently and it remains one of the best performance/Dj remix tools on iOS! Using the mixer to incorporate internal and IAA effects on specific loops and one shots makes Hook unique and a stand out as compared to other similar apps. Being able to tune and apply individual effects on each sample (in real time) while tracks are playing allows spontaneous creativity that is also quite special. I hope this app continues to be supported and the developers incorporate AUv3!- Hook is a high quality app right out of the gate. It is a terrific beat mashing machine ideal for creating original remixes. Sound quality of the app is first rate. In the right hands, Hook could easily help to generate some income. With the app running on two separate devices synchronized with Ableton Link you could have a formidable DJ rig going. Wish list- ability to sample live and load samples while music continues to play. This would make it a true all in one DJ application in my opinion. Hook works really well within the growing Retronym ecosystem! Combined with Tabletop or iMPC Pro, Hook becomes a serious creative reservoir of fresh new musical ideas. Spotify is a nice feature for the remix crowd. Inter app audio makes Hook useful for all genres of music. Kudos to the development team as it is evident a lot of thought went into this fun and useful app. Show more

This was a truly fun app when it first came out. Played with it all the time. Spent ton of money on the additional sound packs. At an average price of $5-$8 per pack I now own close to 40 of them. However, the app has not been updated since July 2016! That would be fine if it still worked but it will not import ANY of those purchased packs anymore. App freezes upon import process then comes to a crashing halt. Only way to deal with the crash is to power down and restart the entire iPad. I have contacted tech support more than once. Sent them the various crash logs. Now they seem to think it's better just to ghost me without any further emails or tech support what-so-ever. Been a loyal customer to this company for many years and have bought LOTS of their products - software and hardware. Have spent hundreds of dollars with them. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS APP. YOU WILL REGRET IT AND WISH YOU HADN'T IN THE END! Show more

I’ve tried to add music from iTunes and the app crashes. I’ve tried both versions for the iPhone and the iPad only version with the same result. How can I get my money back. DO NOT BUY OR USE THIS APP. Highly disappointing. Show more

I wish that the loops that come with it would've been like you did with iMPC Pro 2 that we can download the content from AudioCopy So that we can pick and choose what we want to import into the app I hate taking up space on my device with loops I don't plan on using I understand it's probably too late to implement that now but you can still give us the option of deleting the content that it comes with Please! Show more

Awesome app, I had written a review stating I was unable to connect to AudioCopy in the past but after messing around with app, I was finally able to establish a link, the key was to do audio past from library and not sounds section, which periodically I was able to do successfully. Very happy now.... Show more

02-10-2018 4:16am Thank you for your response. I will email for further support to see if we can correct the issue I am having. Everything is working except for being able to import my AudioPaste items. Cannot import samples. AudioCopy import for all of my Hook enhanced music samples fails to connect. Eagerly awaiting an update to this app. Show more

Spotify import is the key feature that differentiates this app from Novation Launchpad. Yet it is disappointingly unusable. No waveform zoom and no beat grid make it impossible to grab loops with any precision. Sure you can sit there all day nudging blindly by ear, but why? Even a manual beat grid+pinch zoom would be a huge improvement... I will update this review if the import situation improves. Show more

Hook is the best DJ app in the app store. It has great transitions and other features that allow you to get creative. I recomend to anyone!

They have a good idea here. Unfortunately like their other apps it crashes a lot. It's unfortunate. It seems like alot of these app developers are just interested in the money grab and not making a stable tool that professional musicians can actually use. There's nothing fun about spending 15 minutes on a killer idea only to have the application crash on you. Start over and do it again crashes again. Start over do it again crashes again... ridiculous... Show more

Add IAA & Audiobus and you take the title now with Looperverse. Love it.

I come from a live instrumentation background (played guitar mandolin and fiddle in bands) and while I've enjoyed making electronic music, I've avoided getting serious about it cuz I don't want to bring a laptop on stage and just press play and jump around. Hook allows me to actually "play" my songs live. I can mess up or end up in a hole, and I need that threat to feel satisfied when I pull it off! It can be buggy, crash or exhibit weird behavior - but it's still pretty new, they're working on new updates all the time, and no instrument is perfect - how many times have you broken a string on your guitar on the first song of the set? Show more

Hook is a lot of fun. It takes some practice to be able to fully understand the possibilities. I can tell that Hook really needs to be operated with Wej. If I could afford one I'd get it in a heart beat and have mini performances at the club I work at in between shows. I would like to see more in depth tutorials from Retronyms developers Show more

I love how you can label your track columns, and how the cell matrix is much larger than that of your typical 4 x 4 MPC. Being able to see the file names while simultaneously seeing the loop progress bar for each cell is also nice. It's a lot of fun playing around with the demo projects, and using the gate and beat-repeat FX. There are a lot of great features for the price. However, poor latency is a big issue for me. Additionally, importing sounds is very cumbersome, especially since inter-app importability is not 100% functional. And lastly, the time-stretch feature seems flawed. I had difficulty syncing loops that were originally recorded with different tempos. Show more

Importing your own samples is super slow. Regular audio paste doesn't work and audioshare which is developed by this company, also isn't useful. There are many bugs in the system when importing your own audio. Making a loop correctly play just depends on how lucky you are. The settings are not all the same yet the way it plays the audio isn't consistent. I have exported loops from the same app and receive different outcomes. Beat matching doesn't work. It changes the speed and tempo of the tracks I import every time. Show more

Although this app does have interAp audio it is not for serious iOS musicians. When I read "Clip launching capabilities like Ableton Live" & Ableton Link feature, I was under the impression that this app would be able to record perfect loops with InterAp audio but that is not the case. Recording audio from other apps is... to say the least unintuitive! The sampling capabilities are not up to par, you're not able to play the sample you have recorded or take only the pieces you want. It is very limiting. This app is basically the MPC up and it crashes just as much. if you're like me and you like to make music on iOS and are looking for a way to bring all the amazing apps that are out there together into one place this is not the app for you. I know this app is not supposed to be for serious musicians it is supposed to be something fun to play with I am just writing this review as a warning so that you don't feel like you wasted your money as well. Even as a fun toy this app is over complicated it is not user-friendly, but in time it has a lot of potential and can be a great app if it's geared more towards professional musicians. Bugs: iPad Pro version 9.3.3 Spotify prompts you with a login screen even though I'm already logged into the Spotify app Apple Music shows my playlist but they are all empty and I'm not able to choose any songs While trimming my sample the app kept crashing, resulting in loss data Show more

Deserving of five stars if it had good documentation. It does not. It is an Ableton Live derivative that delivers. IMPC PRO users have an advantage as menu organization is similar. It works well especially as a performance app as opposed to a composition tool, but certainly usable if you are not a DJ. Show more

This is a full-featured mashup/dj daw. It’s best in class. I can grab a hook out of iTunes or Spotify in 10 seconds. The nonlinear transition /drop tool is killer. Very user friendly. Show more

Hours of getting lost in music bliss await....

Great start, couple things I would love to see. 1. Set key key metadata if none exists. I know the key of my loops since I made them, would love to be able to tell the app. Kind of a must even. 2. MIDI control over the cells, I know that was not in the original plan but I would like to use my launch pad with it. 3. Inter app audio recording in the same way that iMPC Pro does it. As in, being able to hear your track play while recording. I'm not sure why it's not like that. Anyway great work, keep it up! Show more

Impressive app. My new favorite tool! Can’t wait for a Wej.