Sound Byte Cart Machine App

🇺🇸 United States
Black Cat Systems  | 
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4.1
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Votes
293
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App Age
15y 1m
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Last Update
Jul 20, 2022

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Rating
4.06
4.58
-11%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
293
579.4K
-100%
App Age
15y 1m
8y 3m
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Price
$5
$1
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In-app Purchases Price
$0
$41
Update Frequency
1240d
31d
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Title Length
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25
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30
27
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Description Length
3 303
2 741
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Number of Screenshots
2262
1285
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Size
3MB
218MB
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Sound Byte Cart Machine App
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Sound files at your fingertips
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Looking for a way to play sound clips at a theater or sporting events, as a DJ, or at other events? Don’t want to lug a computer around with you? With Sound Byte, the so-called "cart machine" used at radio stations in the past is now available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Whether you're programming a radio show or amateur podcast, adding spice to the commentary at a local sporting event, controlling sound effects for a theater production, or simply organizing your personal playlist, Sound Byte lets you manage and control playback of your audio files. Sound Byte is perfect for: Radio, podcast and TV productions - have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertips. Theater Productions - play any sound effect on cue. Sports Events - jazz up the commentary for your home team with sound effects each time they score. Sound Byte supports up to 20 racks of carts, or up to 1500 recordings total (420 on the iPhone/iPod). You can set the number of racks in use, so you don’t have to deal with empty, unused racks. Using Sound Byte is easy - just tap a cart, and playback of the audio file begins. You can set the title of each cart, as well as the background color. Optionally, you can have the app automatically change cart colors based on their state: empty, loaded, playing, and already played. Carts can also be numbered if you wish, and you can mark carts with a bright red border to make them easier to find, to play next. Fade in and out times can be set, as well as the cut in and cut out times, the playback volume, stereo pan, and rate. The volume of carts can be set while they are playing, and you can set the volume up to 200%, in case you have some recordings that are at too low of a level for normal playback. Carts can be set to loop a specified number of times - great for sound effects! Carts can be set to flash a user configured number of seconds before they finish playing, so you can get ready to play the next one. Interactions between carts can also be controlled - touching a cart to start it can optionally cause currently playing carts to stop playback or fade out. You can even set carts up to play sequentially, so once one ends, the next one starts playing. Carts that have been played can be marked as such, as well as disabled, if you only want to play a cart once. You can also log the name and time of played carts to a text file that you can copy back to your computer to view. This log can also be viewed from within the app. Several sizes of carts are supported, so you can display fewer larger carts to make playback control even easier. Sound Byte plays sound files from your Music Library. Note that sound files stored on iCloud cannot be played, they must be stored on your device. Sound Byte also plays sound files that you have installed in the Documents folder, which you can access via the iTunes app. Note that the screenshots are for illustration only, so you can see how the app works. Sound Byte does not come with any sound files, you'll need to supply your own. Please see http://www.blackcatsystems.com/ipad/iPad_SoundByte_FAQ.html for a full description of how to use the app. Buy your copy of Sound Byte now, and get complete control over playback of your sound effects and other files.}
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4.1
293 voters

Some Latest Reviews

davidestevenssound
30 Nov, 2025
1
Not working on ios26.1. All I get is a blank screen.
MacTrooper
18 Nov, 2025
5
I truly love this app and have been using it for 13 years or so. Relatively easy to use with some great functionality. If there was one thing I would change it would be to make a rack setup exportable so that once I have it built I can add it to a second device. But I have probably used this app longer than almost any other on my phone—like a dj sound pad, for ceremonies, and as the FX bank in my parade vehicle—and it has never let me down. There aren’t many apps that you can say that about.
Ibdreaderd
09 Oct, 2025
2
I have been using this app for years. It has always been rock solid. Recently updated … oops crashes constantly when going to cart setup. Recently updated again (today 13-Jul-2022) in hopes that bug was resolved…. Oops crashed instantly. Just to confirm I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. C R A S H. Please resolve. Note - my current rating is for this (current version) I’d give the pre-updates app 5 stars.
Chabbey
05 Oct, 2025
3
Love using this app, but setting up a new show is extremely difficult. You can’t import tracks while on an iPad. You have to connect to a PC or Mac in order to get the files where you can actually import them. If there was a way to use this on the iPad alone, it would be 5 stars.
Design 31
25 Dec, 2024
2
As for the previous opinion from 3 years ago, selecting sounds in the music library does not work (I’m on IPhone 13 Pro). The playback progress is invisible because it is the same color as the cart. I regret my purchase.
Nadrekab
13 Dec, 2024
1
I’ve been using this app for years for my podcast. The file structure broke when Apple updated to APFS in iOS 10. As of writing, the latest iPadOS is 18.2. It’s unbearable to add clips to the app when they don’t show in alphabetical order. Sorting the contents of a directory is Coding 101. It’s even more embarrassing to think this developer had access to the dev betas and still failed to update such a rudimentary feature. My podcast ends today, and while it’s bittersweet, I’m very happy to be free from this app.
Tyutronic
28 Sep, 2024
4
I like it very much. Quite Pro, but I'd love to see cut/copy/paste/save/move capability of the carts and banks.
javatyger
04 Jan, 2024
2
I’ve been using this app since it was developed, and there’s been some major improvements and I absolutely love it for live music for sporting games. However, since the release of iOS 15, it has huge bugs with it, the biggest is the sound files are not listed alphabetically, and also crashing periodically. The app developer is no longer supporting it - I’ve contacted them several times by email to try and fix the issue, and release an update, and have received no response. Don’t bother purchasing this until it’s updated.
Mr. S. Vinyl
25 Oct, 2023
5
This is the second time I had to get this app because ofApples upgrade a few years ago my old iPad was outdated. It’s an amazing app, sometimes because of Apple iTunes it’s a little difficult to get new sound events into it but I always seem to figure it out eventually, it’s just never like the instructions on the app. They perhaps could be updated please. I use this app for both bed music which I play under my mic breaks and I also use it for short little sound events in between songs. It is indispensable for me and my show. I’d feel naked without it. It helps me to put the show into the show.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.05
Voted: 293
App Store Link:
Price: 4.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Music, Utilities
Size: 3MB
App Age: 15 years 1 month
Release Date: Oct 30, 2010
Last Update: Jul 20, 2022
Version: 2.2
Version history
2.2
Jul 20, 2022
Updates to fix a possible crash when viewing the Setup.
2.1
Jul 08, 2022
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening the rack settings.
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