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Apple going down - it's time to think of the future

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  • I can’t believe Apple’s audacity. I’ve got a Macintosh Powerbook Duo 230, and would you credit it, it can’t even run System 7.6.1 (easily the best Apple OS) — it can only go up to System 7.5.5. What are they playing at?

  • @sleepless said:
    @Fruitbat1919 I think the EMU samplers were incredibly well built, hence their phenomenally high launch prices. The Akai S900 was, similarly, a heavy tank, and my longest-lasting bit of gear. The obvious weak spots (backlight & floppy drive) did break though.

    I used a SCZI CD drive with mine to load my samples :p and a stand alone Analog Akai filter unit hooked up - good times. Doubt I could still read the small writing on the screen now though.

  • @u0421793 said:
    I can’t believe Apple’s audacity. I’ve got a Macintosh Powerbook Duo 230, and would you credit it, it can’t even run System 7.6.1 (easily the best Apple OS) — it can only go up to System 7.5.5. What are they playing at?

    They're just doing it to up sell you to system 8, be strong.

  • @mister_rz said:
    @sleepless You and me both, I got in at kore 2, year or too later, got an email, parties over, here's 3 kore packs, now if you'd just exit the building and not make as fuss it would be appreciated. I let out a small welp, but I love the deep fx series, got all 3, so I keep going with it, but my controller has a mind of its own, with can be a cow for automation.

    Haha....I didn't get the Kore pack offer (I think I'd bought them all), just a "generous" chance to get a small discount off Maschine ;)

    Obviously, we're backing up the notion that software is worthless & prone to short lifespans, but there's a huge difference between £300 for Kore & the less-than-£300 all of my amazing iOS apps have cost me...

  • @sleepless I'm at the point that even when I lose a cheap app I love I'll be like noooooooooo, I've still got stochastik on my ipad, waiting, hoping that it will be updated, when I lost grid, I was inconsolable, I only used it a few times, but it was such a fun little app.

  • @Fruitbat1919 said:
    Seriously when you get to a certain age, you worry more about body parts still working in ten years than you do about apps :p

    10 years? I'm just hoping it will work tonight!

  • @johnfromberkeley said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:
    Seriously when you get to a certain age, you worry more about body parts still working in ten years than you do about apps :p

    10 years? I'm just hoping it will work tonight!

    Apple have a product for that - the iStiff :p

  • My Guild D-25M six-string is still chugging away after 40 years (had to change the strings a few times tho).

  • The future's overrated...

  • I guess my piano is around it 100 years, a bit less probably, and sadly enough it should go to waste. No way to tune it.

  • Even if Apple somehow went out of business (not going to happen anytime soon) it's not like ipad's and the software on them would all suddenly just stop working.

  • The Doomsday stuff with Apple is just a microcosmic example of how insane capitalism can be.

    For example, let's say a company makes 500 million in 2015, but in 2016 they make 480 million. The sky is falling!!! Cutbacks, restructuring, etc. will be the response and no one stops to go, "Hey we're still 480 million in the good"... The golden rule of American big business is to make more than you did last year, last quarter, last night. Grow, grow, grow.

    The consequences of this unsustainable ideology are always bad, companies will fold, causing lost retirements for the bulk of the employees while CEO's get severance packages and other crazy considerations. It really is madness, but it has been that way for so long you're seen as un-American if you dare question our economic & political systems.
    The chasm between haves and have nots gets wider and greed continues to march on.

    "Don't question our greed!! Whatta ya some kind of socialist?!!"

    Apple should be fine if common sense prevails but if they follow the pattern of so many other companies who refuse to take the good with the bad then Cupertino might be in for trouble after all...

  • @JRSIV said:
    The Doomsday stuff with Apple is just a microcosmic example of how insane capitalism can be.

    For example, let's say a company makes 500 million in 2015, but in 2016 they make 480 million. The sky is falling!!! Cutbacks, restructuring, etc. will be the response and no one stops to go, "Hey we're still 480 million in the good"... The golden rule of American big business is to make more than you did last year, last quarter, last night. Grow, grow, grow.

    The consequences of this unsustainable ideology are always bad, companies will fold, causing lost retirements for the bulk of the employees while CEO's get severance packages and other crazy considerations. It really is madness, but it has been that way for so long you're seen as un-American if you dare question our economic & political systems.
    The chasm between haves and have nots gets wider and greed continues to march on.

    "Don't question our greed!! Whatta ya some kind of socialist?!!"

    Apple should be fine if common sense prevails but if they follow the pattern of so many other companies who refuse to take the good with the bad then Cupertino might be in for trouble after all...

    +1, This
    Making less profit this year than last year = a loss? That's nuts, that's greed, that's....capitalism.

  • @Littlewoodg said:

    @JRSIV said:
    The Doomsday stuff with Apple is just a microcosmic example of how insane capitalism can be.

    For example, let's say a company makes 500 million in 2015, but in 2016 they make 480 million. The sky is falling!!! Cutbacks, restructuring, etc. will be the response and no one stops to go, "Hey we're still 480 million in the good"... The golden rule of American big business is to make more than you did last year, last quarter, last night. Grow, grow, grow.

    The consequences of this unsustainable ideology are always bad, companies will fold, causing lost retirements for the bulk of the employees while CEO's get severance packages and other crazy considerations. It really is madness, but it has been that way for so long you're seen as un-American if you dare question our economic & political systems.
    The chasm between haves and have nots gets wider and greed continues to march on.

    "Don't question our greed!! Whatta ya some kind of socialist?!!"

    Apple should be fine if common sense prevails but if they follow the pattern of so many other companies who refuse to take the good with the bad then Cupertino might be in for trouble after all...

    +1, This
    Making less profit this year than last year = a loss? That's nuts, that's greed, that's....capitalism.

    +1 just the same in the UK

  • @JRSIV said:
    The Doomsday stuff with Apple is just a microcosmic example of how insane capitalism can be.

    For example, let's say a company makes 500 million in 2015, but in 2016 they make 480 million. The sky is falling!!! Cutbacks, restructuring, etc. will be the response and no one stops to go, "Hey we're still 480 million in the good"... The golden rule of American big business is to make more than you did last year, last quarter, last night. Grow, grow, grow.

    The consequences of this unsustainable ideology are always bad, companies will fold, causing lost retirements for the bulk of the employees while CEO's get severance packages and other crazy considerations. It really is madness, but it has been that way for so long you're seen as un-American if you dare question our economic & political systems.
    The chasm between haves and have nots gets wider and greed continues to march on.

    "Don't question our greed!! Whatta ya some kind of socialist?!!"

    Apple should be fine if common sense prevails but if they follow the pattern of so many other companies who refuse to take the good with the bad then Cupertino might be in for trouble after all...

    Um, for starters the rise of the financial industry as a significant portion of the economy is a relatively recent phenomenon. Beyond that capitalism has proven to be the most reliable force in lifting people and nations out of poverty, providing the flexibility needed to adjust to circumstance as well as the ability to uproot any bad weeds, but hey let's not let facts get in the way of a little self righteous ranting. That greed and consumer indulgence has undermined a capable system speaks more to the failure of the people in the system than the system itself.

  • @Fruitbat1919
    It's why there really isn't a UK or USA anymore, just capital sin fronteras

  • wimwim
    edited April 2016

    ugh. Politics.
    I'm outta this thread. Have fun y'all. :|

  • We could talk about Sun Vox if you like.

  • @southpole76 said:

    @JamMaestro said:
    I doubt they're just going to abandon a whole ecosystem with millions of users

    like the iPod?

    haha. I can't take 4 pages of this so pardon me if this is 50 posts old but if you think 'like the iPod?' is an actual reply to JM's post, you are seriously missing the point/trolling hard.

    the entire ecosystem that has made them the most profitable company in the world is built off the iPod.

    Yes, it phased out but all of its capabilities lived on. And then some.

  • edited April 2016

    Well, as long as they don’t phase out the Apple 1 — wait, they have?

  • And the Alchemy mobile Gate ,Remember? Camel Audio -> Apple -> abandonware .Is there a way to have it now ?

  • @syrupcore said:

    @southpole76 said:

    @JamMaestro said:
    I doubt they're just going to abandon a whole ecosystem with millions of users

    like the iPod?

    haha. I can't take 4 pages of this so pardon me if this is 50 posts old but if you think 'like the iPod?' is an actual reply to JM's post, you are seriously missing the point/trolling hard.

    the entire ecosystem that has made them the most profitable company in the world is built off the iPod.

    Yes, it phased out but all of its capabilities lived on. And then some.

    ok, i can see your and others point here ... iPod was not a good example, even if i don't plan on getting a super expensive smartphone as a "replacement" for an mp3 player, the software possibly does live on.

    i think it would just be cooler to take the decision on wether this happens or not out of Apple's hands, which i still see as an unreliable and unpredictable company.

  • I don’t see how you can take Apple out of Apple’s hands. My advice is don’t become too attached to it. Preserve what you can, be an artist, use whatever tools are working at the moment.

  • @lovadamusic said:
    I don’t see how you can take Apple out of Apple’s hands. My advice is don’t become too attached to it. Preserve what you can, be an artist, use whatever tools are working at the moment.

    Apple didn't write all that software - it was independent developers. Apple just coerced them into selling it through their closed ecosystem.

    But this may actually be the response to my initial question: the source code of all that is still with the developers, and when a new platform comes along, they might port their apps to that. as is happening now with legacy synths getting ported to iOS, like Crystal

  • There hasn't been a 12-month period since probably the early 2000's where some publication or series of publications has predicted the imminent demise of Apple. The iPod was overpriced and ill-conceived and would never work. The iPhone was glitchy and people were never going to use a phone as a primary internet device. The iPad was basically declared a flop and a useless piece of ancillary technology. Then Android really emerged about 5 years ago and all the "cool" tech-savy people ripped on Apple users.

    I don't buy any of it. Apple has a single iOS, ecosystem, and series of device models that virtually all run all of their products and apps, and people keep them for years and continue to use them (and that ranges from grandmothers to the nerdiest of tech people). I would have bought an iPad 5 times over by now if there was some reason my iPad2 didn't work anymore (it does, for the most part!).

    Apple is by no means a perfect company, but they're not going anywhere anytime soon, and there are endless reasons why I will continue to be an Apple user into the indefinite future.

  • Apple its not going away any time soon. Maybe when everyone moves away from smartphones and mobile to the next thing. but iPhone sales couldn't keep growing forever at the pace of the iPhone 6.

  • @southpole76 said:

    @lovadamusic said:
    I don’t see how you can take Apple out of Apple’s hands. My advice is don’t become too attached to it. Preserve what you can, be an artist, use whatever tools are working at the moment.

    Apple didn't write all that software - it was independent developers. Apple just coerced them into selling it through their closed ecosystem.

    But this may actually be the response to my initial question: the source code of all that is still with the developers, and when a new platform comes along, they might port their apps to that. as is happening now with legacy synths getting ported to iOS, like Crystal

    Ok, now we've come full circle. Apple provided the platform (IOS) and provided the marketplace (AppStore). They didn't have to coerce the developers. The developers were attracted by the wealth of music technology resources provided within the OS. This is why companies such as Moog, Roland, Korg, etc. were willing and Able-to port their legacy synths to IOS. If a newer, even richer platform becomes available in the future those same algorithms and source code can be used. So, yes, the source code is still safely in the hands of the original developers and independent of Apple, Google or whomever. We can bash Apple all we want but the fact remains that they have historically been the most music production-friendly OS provider bar none. They have been the leader while Microsoft and Android have trailed and that continues to this day.

  • @carol said:
    They have their ups and downs like any company . I had a PowerMac years ago which never really took off , a> @Clam said:

    @akbal said:

    The home button on my iPad Air 1 is starting to activate Siri with just a short press, super annoying :/

    Exactly the same thing here.

    The home button went on my first iPhone , so on my current phone ( 5 ) I activated the on-screen button to avoid wearing it out on my new one , and it's still going strong after 3 years lol . Unfortunately I can't find the option on my iPad so maybe they do removed it , so we wear it out

    It's in the accessibility section. You can also speed up our slow down the double click rate, which may prevent that from happening.

  • @southpole76 said:

    @lovadamusic said:
    I don’t see how you can take Apple out of Apple’s hands. My advice is don’t become too attached to it. Preserve what you can, be an artist, use whatever tools are working at the moment.

    Apple didn't write all that software - it was independent developers. Apple just coerced them into selling it through their closed ecosystem.

    But this may actually be the response to my initial question: the source code of all that is still with the developers, and when a new platform comes along, they might port their apps to that. as is happening now with legacy synths getting ported to iOS, like Crystal

    Yes, the music world doesn't revolve around Apple.

  • I think most people here are artists who are using the iPad instead of iPad users who make music.

    We always find a way.

    Besides, the momentum the iPad has and the already installed capabilities are nothing to shy away from from fear of the future. Again, most people here seem to embrace the future and all its challenges and rewards.

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