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.
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Always forgetting to remember that part...
how appealing are the sounds to you?
@kobamoto
You can do a lot with em, sketchwise...GM library stuff, the exact list, give or take a couple, of instruments that ship inside of MTS. As @gkillmaster noted there's lack of release in envelopes of instruments that want release, strings, like cello etc. Mr Bremmers added some drawbar style harmonics sliders, and envelope stuff in his app to shape these. Mr Buntinas' Lyra sampler in AP has lots of extra tweaks available too, but the idea is the same, a sampler instrument based on Soundfonts...
One can put together good beats with the percussion stuff, there's lots of them, and there's a set of synth sounds. If dev were to go the AB route you'd be sound designing with AB effects likely, otherwise one would want user access to sampler, more tweaks, fx, user samples, or synths added.
A workmanlike set of tools for composition, covers plenty of genres, short answer.
thanks. I think I'll buy it... the dev owes you one and i hope you ask him for the upgrades I want hehehehe, in the most diabolical voice one can have while saying hehehe
hmmm...my first sketch sounds like I'm killing a cellist.
Good man, keep it up.
Will do. Right now busy killing an accordionist
I would like to hear some of this killing.
lol...... I've only messed with the preloaded song(s). it's very interesting.
Hello again! The Lite version is out now in case anybody wants to check out the app with no commitment.
In the meantime, I've gotten MIDI export mostly working. However, the MIDI files I create require your DAW/whatever to support the pitch bend range RPN. (By default, pitch bend only goes to +/- 2 semitones, which is hardly anything.) I figured most software would support it by now, but Auria, Cubase LE, and Garageband seem to ignore it, sadly.
Oh well, at least the notes will all be there, bend or no bend.
Up the good work keep!
So have a petition to @WaveMachineLabs , the most capable DAW to help you!
Email: [email protected]
I just bought it to support you and want to see it doing well with midi!
Btw, the Fabfilters Twin2 can only has +/- 3 semitones, so it is not bad at all with 2 semitones, ask Rim to do you a favor. Please, write for help!
Hi @archagon,
20 minutes playing! Can you move the eraser button to middle of right hand side?
It is intuitive to have thumb finger tip to touch it, if you use two palms to the iPad. The 'Tools' bar is not that important for constantly touch, so that Tools bar can be moved or even change to smaller size for the screen!
Air2 iOS9.2
@archagon,
It is important for left hand notations to have sounds coming out of touched note (important update for midi into future). Be it Auria or most of standard apps. So we can have left hand thumb tip to test the sound before entering note melody on chart!
For midi channels,
if you feel bothering with 16 channels, please, at least considering 4 channels, plus the playhead synch, also including midi clock in/out!
You do not have to have audio output, but you must have feature-rich midi implementation, because this is midi sketch board for all apps! That is the selling point!
I just bought the app right here right now because of this (very amusing) thread, with good dev feedback/discussion.
Also I want to kill things (sonically).
@archagon,
Last thing, if you do well as what I said above for midi, 10 bucks for one midi track IAP (playhead must be synched well from/by Auria or drive Gadget) and another 5 bucks for 3 additional midi tracks, I have no problem with! Good luck to you!
I don't see it worth $6 at moment! But I see it worth a lot with midi, so total $18 bucks, I feeling the value justified!
Here's the sonic murder method I've been using: select an instrument that does not pitch bend in the real world, eg grand piano, and draw a triad that wiggles or dives or climbs off pitch. Sustain as long as you are able and don't let those lines straighten!
Even better (worse), have each note wiggle, dive, or climb separately.
"Musical" uses for this technique are to be determined...it won't actually kill any pianists (or accordionists as in previous example) but it will hurt their feelings.
@archagon
Looking forward to trying out the midi file export feature! Many thanks...the app (above silliness aside) is a fantastic compositional tool...
Add me on.
@archagon
One additional feature, beyond midi file export, that would really dial CS in as a writing tool would be the capability to "lasso" a group of notes to copy paste, or duplicate/repeat to another section (snap to grid) so drum or other sequences could be coped and moved around without re entering note by note. Nor is this already in there and I missed it (this happens to me a lot...)
Thanks and KUTGW
Yes please.
Many teachers, one student, and lots of homework.
Something I would love for all these tools is a way to set up a chord for each bar/measure. All it would do is show me in the background which notes fit the current chord. Sounds like a small thing, but it would make voicing and improv way easier.
Poor devs, seriously...
Thank you! I think this feature depends more on the synth than the DAW, however. A bit surprised it isn't more common, that's all. RPN pitch bend range is a standard signal.
Interesting idea, I've felt this way too. Will think about it...
Are you saying that when you touch the note labels, the corresponding note should play?
Ha ha! For a while, I was actually considering disabling pitch-bending for instruments that didn't support it in real life (like the piano). Glad it didn't stick! (Also, John Cage would be proud.)
That is definitely on my list. Actually, I wanted to have this feature in version 1, but I simply ran out of time. Entering the same drum pattern for 20 measures is no fun!
When I first envisioned my app, I wanted to have more music-theory-helper-type-stuff like this. In the long run, I definitely want to explore in this direction. (A parallel fifths detector? A counterpoint helper?)
Haha, just the one dev. And it's actually super helpful to read this thread!
@archagon
Plural in the sense that around here, we're up in all the devs grills, all the time...!
Poor Audiobus dev(s), Composers Sketchpad dev, Zedsynth dev, Auria Pro dev, SynthQ dev, Modstep dev(s)!
No rest for the weary, cause we want it all, allatime...
KUTGW! And if there's a way to make some of these features IAPs you will be doing me a favor helping assuage my guilt...
Hi there folks! I just finished my MIDI and JSON export update. (Also added: dashed lines for sharp notes, more accurate octave offsets, range indicators for instruments that can't go above or below certain pitches, and — hopefully! — improved performance and memory usage. Oh, and also, got rid of some reeeealy stupid crashes, fixed a bunch of wrong icons, and removed debugging Cocos2d text. Oops!)
I just hit the release button on the Lite version, so that should be up shortly. I hate to ask, but does anyone have an iPad Pro and Pencil lying around? If so, any chance you could give the Lite version a quick runthrough? I don't currently have access to one and I just want to make sure that Pencil support still works as intended with the new update. (I didn't change any of that code so I'm sure it's fine, but I'm a bit reluctant to release the non-Lite version until it's been confirmed.)
The MIDI output is structured like this: each instrumental layer is its own track, and the notes in each layer are arbitrarily assigned to their own channels (so as to minimize overlap). Before a note sounds, a channel sound-off command is sent to its channel. The pitch-bend range is defined by a standard RPN command.
A lot of software has issues with my files, unfortunately. Issues may include:
For this reason, I've included a toggle to turn pitch-bending off. (This also removes the sound-off commands.) Hopefully that's a good enough solution for most people. However, I'd be happy to consider other toggles if the simplified version still causes problems.
Next up: the iPhone version, I hope! (Also, I reeeealy want to add support for Scala microtonal files. Actually, it's already in there and mostly working in the dev build, but the hard part is making the UI for it.)
Good update about your update. Looking forward to it Sir...
Looks like nobody has an iPad Pro around.
OK, will pick one up tomorrow and hopefully release around noon PST.