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.
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@PaulB: Ah. The free version does not do that. With the paid version you get a "Pro" button that lets you into all that goodness. I'm still playing, found a few non-crashers which I am assured are addressed in the next release.
@DaveMagoo: unfortunately not yet. Input slot only. You could maybe run an external feedback loop through hardware, but that's tricky to do safely and you really should not do it without multichannel I/O.
The Pro features are young yet. I'm willing to work with it while waiting for the fixes though, he's a responsive developer.
Anyone remember the Roland S-550? Replicating its patches in the iPad is what brought me here. So far VoKey is the only option.
@dwarman I made a whole lot of music with the Roland s770, an Alesis MMT-8 and some midi enabled analog synths.
@dwarman Free version has the pro button and the layer page, but no clear method for loading the samples. I'd understand if the feature is locked, but I'd like to understand the process.
I took screenshots of all of the pages, including the help screens: http://iosmusic.org/photos/list/tag/vokey
@PaulB The button to load samples is the yellow one at the top right of the Zones page. Not sure if the free version has that or not. You have to save samples or import them from the home page before you can load them into a zone.
So far, VoKey looks great in theory, but it's painfully slow and has crashed several times on my iPad 4. Hopefully the dev does work through all of the issues quickly and then this could be a killer app. I can't recommend it at this point, but as @dwarman said, it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
I have the app, but didn't see where the looping and crossfading is edited. These are essential for getting good sustained chromatic instruments without pops or clicks. Can anyone point me to where this is done in VoKey?
Sorry @Audiojunkie - I got frustrated with VoKey, deleted it and moved on. I'm hoping it improves soon, but for now it's basically unusable.
@Audiojunkie - first page "Pro Mode" button takes you to the layers page. Note that here you can instantiate multiple envelopes and LFOs (the + button top left of each). Use two fingers to scroll the right hand side up so you can see the added effects.
Click on a layer and it takes you to the zones and connections page. Zones give you things like multiple samples across the layer for a fine grained instrument.
Click on Connections and you get the transfer function editors for all the controllers. The curves are a little primitive right now but that is apparently an area of current improvement.
There are a lot of control points in this App. It might be said to have been released a little early, using us as beta testers, but I'm OK with this one because it promises almost everything I want in a sampler. Send the developer periodic mumblings of encouragement and hopefully reproduction cases for the bugs you hit. He will go after them.
Sounds cool. I have the app, but haven't used it because I haven't been able to find basic things that I need (like looping and crossfading). I hope things will improve--I already own it, so I'll be set.....
I'm still a fan of putting together a SoundFont on my PC and using Bismark bs-16i on the iPad to play them. Not an all-in-one-iPad solution, but it gives me the best results.
Hi Apptronica, As far as i'm aware, there is no professional standalone (keygrouping) sampler for ios. I did suggest an Akai s1000/ s3000 (or kontakt) in the 'apps you'd like to see' post, but i dont think any dev's read that.
I did consider making an Akai s3000 App myself.. But i'd have to get crowd funding before putting together a team of programmers/ dev's.. very time consuming.
I use the sampler in SunVox, if i want to use more than 12 samples.
RUncELL
@Cubilas It'd be very nice to have a soundfont editor on iOS so we can create our own using iOS apps.
@Cubilas said:
What's a good Free soundfont editor on PC that can assemble .sf2 files and assign them to keys?
@RUncELL , I would buy that iS3000 app immediately!
I've got a ton of old Akai CDs, some painfully converted to Reason's NN-XT format during the 2000s so I could still use the sounds... And I still use them quite often!
If you ever need a sound programmer/designer for such an app, count me in
I agree with @FRibeiro! It would be an insta-buy! In my opinion, it wouldn't even need to be a AKAI compatible app. It could be something that is AKAI3000-esque. It could even have its own format, as long as it is fully featured, and easy to use. :-)