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.
Airplane mode
so.... Would there be some kind of advantage for me to use this on my ipad air. No wireless provider just a wi-fi only device.
I see people comment on how they switched their device to airplane mode for this or that. When they are playing live, or recording. Is this only useful when the device is connected to a network through a wireless carrier, like AT&T or Verizon?
Just checking, wondering if I should be using this on my ipad for certain things?
Comments
It's a way to conserve processing resources. It's helped me run the first Auria when I had an iPad 4 and lots of tracks going (this even before Auria 2 and its midi).
Even when you're not connected to your network, the "radio receiver" will keep looking for a network, which is also a drain. A lot of people here turn on airplane mode as an automatic first step before getting into their projects...like shutting all the stuff down in the background. (Which became harder with iOS 9, Apple sandboxed the info that System monitor apps accessed that could tell you exactly what was running in the background. I use Genome or even Auria to tell me at least which midi enabled apps are hiding back there...)
Huh, even if I always leave wi-fi off, I only turn it on if I need to download something or update an app? Airplane mode still helpful?
yeah - I was never 100% sure what Airplane Mode did ... but since day 1 of owning my ipad it's been turned on.
In regards to this: I just upgraded to ios9 (from 7) and noticed that Thor & NLog Pro apps where showing up in Loopy under sync connections - but those 2 apps had been closed and not used for days. I think I'd read about this - apps used in IAA not shutting down correctly. Are they truly running still in the background or taking up any system resources? Is it ok for them to be showing under midi connections in other apps even though they've been closed? Is there a way to make sure they are shut down correctly - other than doing a hard restart of ipad?
I know that some synths hiding in the background can be a problem, Votan Telepathy was one, it's MIDI implementation is tricky and it was keeping the (old binary) version of Cream from opening.
This is why I open a DAW or sequencer (AP, Genome) just to look for the ghosts...I've heard various things about how turning off, or doing the two button hard reboot, can clean up the background. Smarter dudes than me have noted it's not just off that'll do it but off for a while...spin down (though nothing's spinning anymore) takes a while, I've heard 10-15 mins. Hard reboot seems to do something but upon opening, stuff I hadn't closed is still open. Then there's do both, reboot then shut off, which I heard here too. It was easier when you could spy under the hood and go after things directly. Certain fx apps are really pesky, and all of it will open in background if you open a project that had IAA stuff set up in it...
Here's a tip some of you may find useful which helps especially with shutting down IAA apps.
From the Home screen or from within an app, hold down your device's on/off button until you see the 'slide to power off screen'.
Then hold down the Home button for approximately five seconds. Eventually you will be returned to the Home screen. When that happens it means all apps in memory, including any IAA apps you have running without their interfaces loaded, have been shut down.
Things to note:
1) You need to be in an app or on the Home screen for this to work. It does not work from the Lock screen.
2) The app switcher will still show any apps you have recently been running. Do not worry. If you select an app from the app switcher you will see it loading itself again as you would expect when it has been dormant for a while or otherwise manually shut down.
@qaratechop
Very cool, thanks!
Indeed! Never knew that one. I generally put it into airplane mode, manually close all apps and then do a hard boot before a longer session. This sounds a lot faster.
Thanks @qaratechop great tip.
It must do some good cleanup, because for the first time I saw more than 1gb of memory available on my Air 2
It would be interesting to know if it has the same effect as the hard boot. I'll try it next time audiobus freaks out on me.
On the phone it mutes all incoming calls, texts, emails, alarms, msgs, or whatever and you won't have your flow interrupted... Works great when AB is on...
It also turns off Wi-fi so remeber to turn Wi-fi Back on if you want to use link between devices
@qaratechop
Cool, gonna try it out. How does one even figure this sort-a thing out?
Just for kicks, I just tired it, I had nothing running since last night. Everything had been closed. I gained back .1 gb, which isn't a lot, but I didn't know I had lost it, lol.. So, welcome back .1!
Now check if you have all of your user presets and bookmarks :P
I've checked several apps,, and I've still got em. All Clear houston.
My question too! At this point it's magic (as all advanced tech inevitably appears to this primitive, #ArthurCClarke)
After seeing it worked I immediately like my iPad so much more...like when I wash the car or do minor maintenance like an oil change, suddenly it's brand new and sexy again
@Littlewoodg
lol, I know exactly what you mean.
I didn't realize @qaratechop 's trick works on iOS 8, thanks. It seems to force a system-wide crash or something, but works. Chrome didn't shut down properly.
How do you guys see the avaliable ram?
@qaratechop thank you very much for the information on the IAA bug solution. I definitely have experienced this problem with Telepathy and ended up having to delete it from my iPad to make it go away. The bug has been the nastiest I've experienced in iOS and I've had one since the beginning. Hopefully this solution will work for me.
Getting rid of Telepathy altogether just cleared up issues I've been having with both Cassini and Modstep...so weird.
With "memory and disk" app.
It cleans up the junk etc...cost $€0.99
hey can I ask what os version you guys are all on, I'm on 9.0, should I stay or should I go?
I just downloaded it and not sure where to set the min and max values for my memory in the settings. I have a 16gb ipad mini 2. Can you offer any suggestions?
I leave it on default basically, maybe someone more knowledgable with iOS can suggest a better setting...
PS on 9.2
Thanks for the tip!
I ran it and recovered a full gb.
OK. So, does this clear up "Other"? If so, does it leave app settings alone? There have been reports of using such apps leaving people with lost presets, tracks etc. How safe is it?
I don't know why Apple never implement a Clean up memory & ram thingy into the settings in IOS?
i've never seen any conclusive review or tests that these apps really do what they advertise. And, yes, @MusicInclusive, I've also heard horror stories about losing settings, comfigurations, etc.
The reason is, using an iPad for music production is not the expected usage pattern @studs1966 . The expected and encouraged usage pattern is to leave all the apps you normally use open all the time. (You know, like, Safari, Mail, Health, Tips, Compass, Podcasts, Notes, Calendar, Games, iTunes, Wallet, Stocks, Videos, Reminders, etc. - most of which I just throw into an "Unused" folder on the back page immediately I commission a new iDevice). Then they are immediately available and do not have to be paged back into memory. If there is not enough memory for an app that you want to load to load, then one of the existing apps will be unloaded from RAM at that point and that takes a moment (see below).
That's how the memory cleaner apps work (the ones that didn't actually specifically kill off applications - those were removed from the app store), i.e. they make requests on memory to force the memory to be freed by unloading other apps, then free up that memory, giving you more headroom. That's actually beneficial for the iPad musician, but of little value to the normal user. What does the normal user notice if it takes a second to unload an existing app and load up their new app? But to us, that makes the difference between glitching and not glitching in audio as the need for RAM buffers has to be satisfied. We're "not normal users" according to Apple.
So, there is some benefit it would appear to apps like System Status (which I've used helpfully (at least it appears to me)) and others that do the forced RAM "pre" clearing before you start a new Session.
As an aside, unfortunately, such apps are no longer allowed on iOS 9 to use sysctl() so whereas they also used to be able to list the IAA processes that had got stuck and were not presenting a task switcher pane to kill off, that system call is now blocked from normal apps and they can't list running processes any more on iOS 9 to show you that.