Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.
What is Loopy Pro? — Loopy Pro is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive live looper, sampler, clip launcher and DAW for iPhone and iPad. At its core, it allows you to record and layer sounds in real-time to create complex musical arrangements. But it doesn’t stop there—Loopy Pro offers advanced tools to customize your workflow, build dynamic performance setups, and create a seamless connection between instruments, effects, and external gear.
Use it for live looping, sequencing, arranging, mixing, and much more. Whether you're a live performer, a producer, or just experimenting with sound, Loopy Pro helps you take control of your creative process.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Comments
I've noticed quite a difference playing the same track with the same headphones, iPad Air 1 vs MacBook Pro. The sound on the iPad is less punchy and definitely duller. iPad is on 8.4 still though so I may see if I can hear any difference between that and the iPhone 6S on iOs 9.x.
Speaking of which anyone know of/recommend a tiny DAC that I could plug into the iPad to get a digital out? Don't want a great big box hanging off it.
@Jocphone, Behringer UCA222 has digital output, is cheap and small. I have not tried the output.
At this point with the advent of Auria pro ...With that and perhaps Gadget and Korg Module...Maybe Sampletank and Samplr.. My main problem will be too many options...There is already ten times as many tools available than anyone really needs..
Why not just use MusicIO or Studiomux?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Got my head turned by some of the pricier offerings but I should probably give that one a go as it is super cheap and it has been praised on these here sheets quite regularly.
Sorry I meant for a better quality headphone output. Definitely don't want a laptop hanging off the side of my iPad or iPhone
>
Yes, I did. I'm still not convinced though. i prefer to make my own mind up.
Well,how could Rim even bypass the function if it's just imagination,lol?
I trust the dev on this one,he definitely has more insight.That doesn't mean the difference is necessarily audible (but it's definitely quiter when switching it off) unless you test with very low or high material.
I started for a while a new project where i just used my iPhone 5 (which i broke yesterday) to see what i can still do with it when i try to workaround all the limits and trying to find new (and old) ways again.
So to the topic.... absolutly yes! Even a little smartphone can do it. Especially after a "pro" mix and master no consumer listener would hear a different.
After i struggle more and more with healthness and having problems to use a real keyboard (including my new toy) and still know that this whole thing will never get out of the hobby area i really thought about to sell a lot of my desktop stuff and turn back more to an iPhone warrior, where it all started. Or even an iPad Pro since i think i will stay some time in hospitals in near future and it is a big but still portable device for such places.
Orchestrial stuff would be hard but in general i think there is not such a huge different anymore. It just lacks some more powerful tools on iOS which may be come some day. Now that i used the little Roli Noise iPhone app i think this would be an absolutly killer app on an iPad Pro 2 with 3d touch if it were a full version. Time will tell.
While the tactile feedback on my Rise is unbeatable it is true that diagonal slides works much better on a flat screen f.e.
Sorry to hear about your continuing health problems @Cinebient It does sound like a portable device would suit you better if you are going to be spending time in hospital and it may help to take your mind off being away from home. I'm sure you would find workarounds for the areas you feel are weak on iOS. Sometimes having limitations can spur better results from having to think a little differently.
Agree with you on the Roli Noise App, capable of some extraordinary sounds and ways to articulate the sound with the 3D touch. Only been using the supplied sounds but on the quality and range of those alone it look like I will be buying the other packs too. Ideally they would bring a way to create our own sounds with this engine to iOS eventually. I can always dream
There's a bit of a trend for granular bitcrushy synthesis in the iOS World, I'd like to see more warmth - bigger, fatter sounding synths and maybe new FX to add depth and warmth (a bit like the Fab Filters in Auria).
Listening back to stuff I did on the desktop I can't see a big difference in audio quality, but there are warmer sounding synths.
I recently remixed a band project (live instruments) in Auria Pro, and it came out sounding better than the versions they'd done previously in Logic, so the iPad is still capable of quality work.
As to the old price difference chestnut - like most people I've got a budget. So if I have say, £500 per year for music spending previously I'd buy something like Reason, and that'd be it for the year. Now I buy tons of apps. If they matched desktop prices I'd only buy one or two. There isn't an infinite pot of money, as Mrs Monzo is fond of reminding me.
The only true limits are CPU and Ram but with the computer technology moving so quickly iPads of tomorrow will be as powerful as laptops/pc's of today.
Having said all that I am more than happy with the isems and animoogs of today. It is also what one does with them which brings to mind the idea of kids with a shitty strat copy are perfectly able to outplay those that get the real deal from their wealthy parents. Sweet shop syndrome is definitely a very real thing. This morning I took my daughter to a car boot sale and when she asked me to buy her a horse I reminded her of how many much nicer horses she already has. This resulted in us going back home and finding all of the old toys to play with them. Loads of fun!
Long story short: the iPad synths are perfectly suitable for making pro quality music. Especially because:
Most of them probably will end up in the mix with other instruments (therefore compressed and otherwise processed.
Most of them will probably will be listened to in MP3 format through Beatz
other reasons I can't think of right now
That's the thing, all of my stuff ends up compressed to Bernard on Soundcloud anyway so the casual listener would be unaware I'd used an iMS20 instead of the real thing
People often say that, and they’re incorrect. My computer technology isn’t moving quickly. In fact, I remember it used to move a lot quicker than it does now. It seems that each update completely disregards what it feels like to use it, to the point that the white Macbook has now become so turgid that there’s no point in doing anything on it that is supposed to give a result in the same day. Plus it sounds like a hovercraft again (a few years ago I took it apart, cleaned the fan and applied new heatsink grease and that stopped it from sounding like a hovercraft quite so much). My iPad2 was the best and most top of the range when I bought it and for a couple of years afterward I couldn’t afford any apps (or food or tube fares) because it cost so much, until a job came along briefly.
The thing is, the hardware is more or less fixed by the manufacturer. The software can be changed by the manufacturer. Therefore the obvious position is to produce hardware that doesn’t need to insult buyers by becoming obsolete at all, and concentrate on making the software do the growing and improving. As it stands, it’s the opposite way round to how things should be.
You surely can't argue with the fact that air 2 is more powerful than air which in turn is more powerful then the earlier versions. Which also applies to the future models (bar the occasional lemon like iPad 3 or mini retina 3). 10 years ago memory used to cost a lot more than now and take much more space.
I can't completely deny the planned absolescence argument but it definitely is directly proportional to the speed of hardware and software development. It will also be easier to use inferior components (plastics, batteries) than to willingly sabotage software otherwise the brand loyalty would suffer. When batteries on your phone pack up after 2 years the manufacturer is out of warranty and you'll probably be on a newer device due to end of contract etc. If they mess with the software they will have masses of disappointed customers on the other end of the line so I must say I disagree with that statement of yours. I'm not an expert so I'm completely willing to be convinced otherwise.
I personally used a 2007 MacBook Pro until last year and I thought I'd do that for much longer until I got a 2009 version which I showed me what a piece of junk the other one was. Anyway, both of those were well ahead performance wise compared to my gf's then MacBook (white).
Kind of, but there’s a whole sector of industrial machinery, avionics, submarine instrumentation, factory equipment in use all over the world that a] lasts a very long time and b] doesn’t need a big speech each year at which the current customers are made to feel depressed, and c] doesn’t actually get updated at all, it just goes on working the same way that it came out of the factory — working.
Consumer gear is essentially a con.
Certainly, new models of industrial equipment are released for people buying new ones, but the existing user base still works and carries on working far longer than any computer I’ve ever owned. I mean, my analogue gear still works.
…except for my Poly 800.
I took that down from the attic a few weeks ago and it’s officially stone dead. Anyone in East London want a dead Poly 800 to sink spare time into instead of actually making music? You’re welcome to it. Take it away.
...which suits everyone as we, even if well beyond the age puberty, enjoy the new things every year. This is why we bought into the whole idea of Christmas presents and endless flow of catalogues, promotions and adverts,
...and this is how we (or at least the vast majority of us) like it. Otherwise we wouldn't have bandits in governments getting away with shit as they do.
Round and round on the wheel of Samsara, wheeeeee!
You can thank Edward Bernays for that.
Hold tight it may get bumpy?
Lol, @u0421793, nothing new. Microsoft feasted off it for years. Then somewhere around Windows XP, most folks started to go, "WTF, I actually don't need an upgrade." And the upgrade wheel slowed down, and the hardware prices dropped like a stone. Until the world stops believing that the only way they are going to actually be cool is have the latest from Apple, it's not going to end.
Yeah — he needs to see a psychiatrist, that bloke.
Yep. As long as Apple is seen as something more than a corporation, moving units.
(As opposed to a movement, or lifestyle).
Thanks for this piece of the puzzle, new to me, sent me to YouTube:
"We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. Man's desires must overshadow his needs"
I would recommend the documentary "Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis to anyone who is interested in going further down this particular rabbit hole.
Adam Curtis peed in the public domain video punch, how am I expected to produce original-ish video content now, film my dog?
There’s this:
which is the entire four-part Century Of The Self series.
While you’re on the Adam Curtis thing, here’s one I actually prefer to the above
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
I’ll leave it up to you to find the stuff itself.
You guys put names to the Boogie men I always knew where out there!
The biggest fear lies within, but yet we see it so clearly when it's in externalised.
Round and round it goes.....