uFXloops moving forwards steadily!
This update have added a lot of functionality and room for creativity!

Update:

Version 2.15
- Major new FREE function: Voice Recording to the Beat
- Major new Premium function: Import of Soundfont instruments (.sfz)
- Major new infrastructure function: New faster and leaner samples format
- a lot of little improvements and fixes

To read more it:
https://www.ufxloops.com/forum/post/101376/midi-import---how-it-works

For serious sample work this keeps getting better and better.

From their website:
Today uFXloops 2.0.3 has been released and published on Google Play. 
This update contains two worthful new features and some fixes.
1. The soundboard has a new “instant” composing mode
This improves your composing speed a lot, because all the wait times until a slot queues and dequeues are gone with this mode. Slots still play synched but immediate with this mode. And you can still switch back to the “old” music mode for arrangements, live- and variant-recording.
2. Community Searches have quick-search tags now. 
With these tags you can just search by clicking, no typing any more.
And for special searches you can still type in the search field.
We also fixed some glitches, e.g. with negative start bars, when stepping out of recorded variants, with some uneven slot queuing, the retry registration bug and so on.
We wish you a lot of fun with this new version of uFXloops

This is what is said on  their website...
(http://ufxloops.tumblr.com/post/129278625395/sound-designers-wanted)

Sound Designers WanteduFXloops is opening the flood gates now :-)
see facebook.com/ufxloops

Have Sounds? - Sound Designers wanted! 

We cannot offer money - But we can offer to attribute your name and info in every sample, every instrument built with it, every mix. In the App. On Youtube. On Soundcloud. Wherever a song built with your sound is published. And the web never forgets - it is a constant promotion.

uFXloops works with Creative Commons licenses - in that case we propose to import your original sounds with a creative commons attributable license (commercial). 

Your benefit: you’re helping a lot of musicians with that. You’re doing something good with it. And your name and website is promoted worldwide. We do not yet have a clue about this impact, I can only tell you that the App has a broad, worldwide reach.

What you need to do: just contact us.  We can do all the work in uFXloops for you. Or you can do that yourself, if you’re willing to. uFXloops also allows uploads of your original sounds directly in the App.

Please let me know if you would like to do a collaboration with us. And please share to the ones who might be interested in that.

(and I know there are always some who say “hey look at this uFXloops guy, who wants everything for free” - but the truth is: we also feel that pressure. Our users want everything for free :-) So you see. Regarding sounds - we’re all in the same boat. We would like to promote quality and extraordinariness).

Thank you for listening

Seems to me that when it comes to work with samples uFXloops is maybe ahead in the game on Android with their latest updates. 
Here is what is new-
- Major Update with a lot of improvements
- Major UI makeover for tablets and phones
- Community samples can now be liked/diskliked
- Community Gifts and Rewards system
- Bugfixes for sample import, pickup playing and others

Here is the whole Play store description again if there is anybody that missed this app...



Free samples based Music Production App: Beatmaker, Song composer, Mixer, Arranger for DJs and musicians to create, sequence, arrange, mix and record your songs, beats and grooves with samples like a Pro. Optimized for phones and tablets. Mix loops, fx samples, your own beat patterns and melodic patterns and jam and record it live in the integrated soundboard. The community supports you with best samples, instruments, loops and effects. The integrated delay and reverb processors master your personal sound. The non-linear soundboard approach with the special 'live' feeling makes you produce best results quickly. Everything can be easily created, reused and even shared with the community.*** Watch the new Showcase HERE ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6VbmiWA0ag

uFX loops Music Studio is so much more than a beatmaker. Our DAW supports high Audio quality and any Music Style via its community, e.g. Electro, Hip Hop, Dubstep, Trance, Techno, Rock, R&B, Pop, Heavy Metal. Compose your Grooves and produce your mixes. 99 Tracks, 64 voices polyphonie. 
Try it, this DAW offers unique new ways for create loops, patterns, instruments, part and songs, giving you tons of possibilites for your own ideas.

*NEW* Manual (PDF) : https://www.ufxloops.com/manuals/uFXloops_manual.pdf
https://www.ufxloops.com/gettingstarted

NEW Features:
Automation, Effects, Shuffle Mode

Features:

Samples Import: WAV, OGG, AIF, MP3, 11 / 22 / 44,1 / 48 KHZ, Mono/Stereo
Samples Editor with Click Track, Loop Flag and Audio Recorder 
Instrument Editor for Melodic and Percussive Instruments
Pattern Editor for Melodic and Percussive / Drums Patterns
Pitch Shifters on several Layers
Live Tempo Shifting while Maintaining Pitch
Automatic Loop Point Finder with Cross Fade
Volume Mixer on Four Layers 
Community Based Sound Library with fast search functions
Easy-To-Learn Soundboard Sequencer and Arranger
Projects, Parts and Recording Variants
Share Your Projects, Work Together on New Songs
Song Export to OGG

..and last but not least: Our Community on https://www.ufxloops.com
We are actively developing new features, so stay tuned...

Do not post much music anymore but always think that it is interesting when it is the developer that made the music.
Here is the YouTube description:
I produced this Instrumental Remake of the Daredevil Title Beautiful Crime by Grayson Sanders (Tamer) as a showcase for uFXloops and to express my feelings for this epic song. This version has been produced from the first note to the final production on a Samsung Galaxy S4 with uFXloops. The only post processing was to convert it to mp3 from ogg.

They have recently (more or less, a slight delay in reporting...) made new tutorials and written a downloadable manual that is possible to access here:
https://www.ufxloops.com/gettingstarted


Plus there is a forum...

Got an email from the developer of uFXloops about a week ago and asked if it was okay to reprint part of it. But first just to mention for anyone that have not heard about the application I would say that it is for anyone working a lot with samples and it is one of the deeper applications for sample based music creation as you can see on their Play Store page:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ufxmedia.ufxloops

Here is the part of the email that got sent:

We worked hard in January to deliver version 1.22 of uFXloops, a very stable release which contains the latest fixes after the milestone build 1.20 which we called the 'Living On Mars' Release.
The biggest news is that our community instruments section is instantly growing and over 110 instruments are already online. Please have a look at the new drumsets and melodic instruments. The Rhodes Stage Piano simulation is my personal favourite. But we also have a new Strat Solo Guitar and some Metal and Rock sounds will be added soon. 
The Drums section contains a lot of drumsets for various styles now, so you are ready to create your trance, dance, pop, hip-hop, trap or house projects within a minute. And we will increase this instruments base significantly in the next weeks.

So anyone that works a lot with samples should definitively check this app out and specially now when it has added automation and effects into the mix.

Play Store info:
- Effects: Master Reverb, Delay, Highpass, Lowpass Filters
- Automation: Volume, Balance for each Slot Sample
- Shuffle Mode
- Improved Pattern Editors with Toolbars
- New Demo
- New SlotMix overlay while playing
- Better Tunable Percussion Notes
- Pads are now enlighted when playing
- sustained notes, sequenced slots
- and a lot of usability improvements

Here is a new demo song using the new effects and automation...

Freesound being one of the big resources for original and free sample material is also one of the cornerstones of the app uFXloops Music Studio as it has since the beginning been integrated with Freesounds. 

Here is what is said;
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Dare 30 - Support the developers


This is something I have thought about before, but never managed to turn into a dare. Until recently I was contacted by a developer.

Us Freesounders moan frequently about how many times people use our sounds and don't give us proper recognition. We moan about some of our sounds having many downloads and no star ratings or comments. We moan about how much work and effort we put into those things and so little we get back.

Well... here is somethig for you to think about
On average, maybe it takes you an afternoon to go out and do a recording session. Maybe it takes you a few evenings after that to cut up and clean your recordings. And maybe a few hours to upload, tag, describe into Freesound.
Lets say, 20h total.

This is NOTHING compared to how much time DEVELOPERS spend creating their DAW and plugin applications. 100s or 1000s of hours of their lives go into this.
And I am talking here about FREE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS: the folks that do all of this and then release it for free on the internet.

How many times have you used free music software?
How may times have you gone back to the developer to say thanks? or to give useful feedback?

This dare is about changing that.

If you have an android device, I am going to ask you to download and use uFXLoops.
The developer, Andreas, has contacted me and we created this dare together.
You can get uFXloops here:
https://www.ufxloops.com

Here are some additional links
tutorial: https://www.ufxloops.com/tutorial
videos: https://www.ufxloops.com/gettingstarted
For questions and FEEDBACK:
support@ufxloops.com

Andreas will be active in the DISCUSSION thread to provide assistance, if you need it.
If you do not have an android device you can also participate, just pick another piece of free software and follow the rules.
(*)Also make sure you read the NOTE about using uFXloops at the bottom of this post.

RULES:
1 - If you have an android device (mobile or tablet) please download and use uFXloops for your dare entry.
https://www.ufxloops.com
2 - If you do not have an android device, pick another FREE sound software to use. You can pick more than one, but keep it reasonable as you will need to follow the rules below.
3 - Make sure you can actually contact the developer (their website should still be active, there should be a way to submit feedback/messages or an email...) 4 - If you are stuck for ideas, why not use one of these:
http://www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-challenge/2014/
5 - Use your chosen software, really try to explore as many features as you can.
6 - Contact the developer. Thank them for their product and provide feedback - This is the most important part of the dare. (**) - SEE NOTE BELOW
7 - Post your entry with a link to a music piece created with your chose FREE software(s). You can use other tools/software/hardware/samples also, but make sure your selected FREEE sofware plays a major role in your piece. If it helps, think that you have been asked to create a DEMO music piece for that software.
DEADLINE for submissions: 15 Nov 2014, 11:00pm GMT.
8 - Use this thread for submissions only. For everything else use the DISCUSSION thread.
http://www.freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/35497/?page=1#post76577

(*) - There is another big benefit about using uFXloops in this dare. If you provide feedback, Andreas (the developer) will give you an infinite Premium account on uFXloops - This will enable High Quality Mode and make the app absolutely add-free.

(**) - NOTES ABOUT PROVIDING FEEDBACK
Above all, be considerate and polite. Remember the developer spent a lot of time creating the software, so even if you don't like it and/or does not work for you, try to give useful and polite feedback. Remember that any issue might be specific to your DAW or Operating System. Here is an example on how to complain about some features that you do not like or do not work properly: 
"Hello X, thank you for taking the time to create the VST plugin Sound X. I like the distortion effect, but I found considerable latency when using it in Reaper. Works fine in Ableton Live. Also I found the filter to be a bit bland, there is no noticeable effect on the sound, except at extreme resonance settings. This happens in both Reaper and Live. I am using Windows XP on a 1GHz dual core laptop."
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To see the contributions and read comments etc please go here:
http://www.freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/35496/?page=1#post76576
http://www.freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/35497/?page=1#post76577

After two months, uFXloops passed the 10.000 Downloads mark on Google Play. The community is getting bigger and so is the number of sounds in the community of our sample-based App for Music Creation. Over 2000 sounds can now be downloaded directly with the App, and 40 instruments were added over the last four weeks. So creating music became again a bit easier, though we plan a lot of enhancements to make uFXloops better and better. Thanks to all our active users the community starts to live now. Our first active community members are uploading and sharing some of their original content, ready to be used and enhanced for your own compositions. Join now and download uFXloops Music Studio from Google Play, Special Bonuses are waiting for you until end of September.

Play Store link:
uFXloops Music Studio

uFXloops have now reached their goal of all the basic functions that were planned and the most interesting addition is that you can upload whole projects that gets decomposed into the different samples or individual samples on the server. This also means that another user can download the whole project making it easy to do collaborations.
One thing that the developers are talking about is to be able to do this in a future update for private sharing making it perfect for music bands to work long distance. 

The other update is that they introduced something they call " an anonymous user concept" for people that do not like the idea of registering.
So now that all the basic goals are covered it will start to be implemented with a more of fun stuff like effects and automation etc! 
Here is the roadmap that they published:
https://www.ufxloops.com/roadmap
Some of it has already been implemented and earlier than listed so maybe things is moving on faster than calculated!
In either case it is already a solid application and for anyone working with a lots of samples and loops it should definitively be checked out.

Play Store link:
uFXloops

Getting one video explaining all the concepts instead of the other tutorials that they have released may make things easier for many. If it still seems a little bit confusing it is not too hard if you download the application and play with it for a while watching the video. It is for free and totally functional and if there is a attraction to the app you can pay some money and get a higher audio quality export option enabled. 
There is also a new update and one thing that is not so common is that they have made it possible to connect directly with their new forum directly from the application.
Another thing that is interesting is that if you sign up now for the community ( where you can download and share samples ) you get a thousand coins to spend on buying samples.
The samples do not cost much at all per sample. ( If I remember correctly it is about ten coins per sample which translates in real money to about a cent for each as you buy 1000 coins for about a euro/dollar. ) There is also around a thousand samples / loops for free.
In either case as said before it is easy to try everything out for free.

The update:
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Version 1.07 contains a lot of improvements and fixes, the biggest ones are:
- Now we have a public forum(!) in the App for the Community, so you can get help from others quickly, view the News, Tips and Tricks, and post your own entries.
- Immersive Mode for Android 4.4 available now. You can switch it off in the settings
- You can now assign live recorded sounds to your projects and instruments, and play them in the lists
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Play Store link:
uFXloops