# What About Phase?

> Tape-loop phasing sampler

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6785542900](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6785542900)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6785542900`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Vladimir Gusev
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.17
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-26
- **First published:** 2026-07-09
- **Size:** 19 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/what-about-phase/id6785542900)
- **Website:** [https://whataboutphase.web.app/](https://whataboutphase.web.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://whataboutphase.web.app/privacy.html](https://whataboutphase.web.app/privacy.html)

## Description

Record a clap, a word, a note — then run it through the tape processes of 1960s minimalism. Two channels drift apart, and something you never played begins to play.

Record a few seconds of anything — your voice, a clap, a passing train — and let the app pull it apart in time.

What about phase? is a pocket instrument for process music: it loops your recording in two channels and lets them drift out of sync, so simple sounds grow into shifting, hypnotic patterns. Inspired by the tape-phasing experiments of 1960s minimalism, it makes the process itself audible — you set it in motion, then listen as it unfolds.

TEN PROCESSES
• Phasing — two copies of your loop, one drifting a few cents faster; hear them separate into echo, then canon
• Gradual process — a ramp that grows louder and sweeps across the stereo field
• Tape loop multiplication — your loop fanned into a detuned chorus
• Rhythmic construction — a rhythm assembled hit by hit
• Pattern substitution — beats replaced one at a time: silence, octaves, fifths
• Resultant patterns — two interlocking rhythms revealing a third
• Clapping Music — a pattern rotating against its fixed copy
• Pulse / drone — a pulse grid over a deep foundation
• Canon — staggered voices entering one after another
• Speech melody — a syllable pulsed in speech rhythm and dynamics

THE WHEEL
A radial display shows what the process is doing: your loop's waveform — or the process's own pattern — wrapped around a circle, left channel in coral, right in cyan, a comet sweeping the playhead. In Phasing you can watch the two rings physically drift apart. Volume and pitch views included, with on-device pitch detection.

MADE FOR EXPLORING
• Ten built-in demo takes, one per process, playable from the very first launch
• Every take saves with its process and settings; rename, share as WAV, revert
• Takes named after where you record them (optional, location used only while in the app)
• Live controls: drift in cents, process amount, tempo, sample offset
• No account, no ads, no analytics — recordings never leave your device unless you share them

Record something small. Let it become something long.

## Rankings

- #648,579 — Overall

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