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.
Recommendations for enjoyable apps?
I am looking for some new apps to play with and maybe get inspired by! What's your favorite apps for this purpose? Just plain fun and interesting apps where you can sit and fiddle around a lot, and improvise new melodies for example.
Comments
Hm...let me see..try Navichord Lite, its free!
Gadget or even Garageband can be useful for that. Maybe start by using a Gadget or instrument that you wouldn't normally use, that can lead to interesting things. Or restrict yourself to using just one or two and see what you can come up with.
Oscilab, Quincy
Oscilab by 2beat
https://appsto.re/gb/zuBgV.i
Quincy by RoGame Software
https://appsto.re/gb/riGsR.i
Patterning, Bassline (use it for high melodies too), Fugue Machine. Those are my three picks. Fugue Machine was the most fun initially and has a lot of depth but I'm leaning more to the other two these days as Fugue Machine still has some way to go as a performance tool.
I cannot think of a better app than Samplr. Grab some sounds and paint music with them. Consistently my favorite experience on an iPad. Superior to many hardware machines that cost 20 to 100 times as much. Doubt it? If you only had Samplr on a touch screen (with the recording and editing capabilities of Audioshare) and put it in a clever box and marked it with a Teenage Engineering logo, how much would it cost? It's a Bastl Microgranny, an OP1, a Kaoss Pad, and a sound sculpting granular synthesis marvel that no hardware machine could hope to touch AND it sequences on the fly in intuitive, unexpectedly original ways. It is superior to any hardware I ever owned. I really love this app.
Go Figure! It's free and fun...iKaossilator if you like Figure, it's paying but I'd say more sophisticated and you can import loops and samples...
And almost forgot Electrified, great too...
@FlightManual they should put your paragraph in the Samplr appstore description, easy enough to pull the $10 trigger when you're reminded of the $900 OP-1.
Fugue Machine + Cream Mobile. Or Gadget. Though with the new Gadget update probably all 3 together now will be a glorious crescendo of awesome.
SidTracker64 is also a lot of fun.
FightManual said it all. First app in my mind was Samplr (damn give as an update, its been ages!) I would also recomend figure as Soundklink said, free and powerful!
Fugue Machine will definitely help if you want to sound way more educated in music theory than you actually are. I fancy myself a little Bach now.
There's you next side project: "Ladies and gentlemen Teenage Engineering Logo!"
When I feel like having some fun I throw a few chords into Chordbot. Or if I'm feeling lazy, I use "Song-O-Matic" and let it generate chords for me. Then I play with the presets until I find a musical treatment I like.
Then with one click I export the three part MIDI file. From Audioshare I open it in Auria Pro or MusicStudio. But you can use any app you have that loads multi-track MIDI files.
What you then have are cool MIDI patterns that you can change all the instruments. The drums go in channel 10. You can have fun just tweaking it and playing with the internal synths, and playing opposite them on another tracxk.
But what I do is send the music tracks as audio files to AUM for jamming.
Turn on Link!
Chordbot is almost guilty pleasure (too easy!) territory...
Lol You just inspired me to re install chordbot
Strom - in particular for vocal samples
Hmmm. Never tried. Interesting huh?
you want to just play around? Figure is free and fun, skram is fun but not free, Launchpad for arranging built in loops.
More serious but still fun? Gadget, Samplr, Xynthesizr(matrix synth), Thor(synth), Patterning(drums).
I'm with @Nathan about Launchpad & Blocs Wave. They may be limited by their nature, but it's those sorts of limitations that can at times bring forth something inspired to work further with.
DROM, Poly, Pornfinder
Xnthesizr is very fun!
This Pornfinder of which you so highly speak; follow?
Oops! Did I type that out loud?
Moving on...
That's why sunglasses were invented.
The thread title is a pretty broad topic, but I'm surprised Bebot was not mentioned at the top of this list. ;-) deceptively simple fun with big sound.
You're right. Any time that I am feeling down, plucky little Bebot invariably cheers me up.
^ money.
a beautiful tale, the first edition copy in this household is well-worn and well-loved.
Samplr and Borderlands always seem to provide fairly instant gratification