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.
New iPhone supported mastering tool! Supports iPad too, of course! ;-)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/audiomaster-for-podcasts-music/id1091734833?mt=8
Question is, how good is it?
Comments
I would imagine that it is similar to LANDR, but total cost is $4.99 for the Full Functionality IAP. It seems to me that it could be useful for such a low price. Maybe not for final work, but surely good for demos?
Yeah, it's "free" for one use, it seems, then IAP is $4.99. Seems it has the same presets as early iTunes: Pop, Jazz, Club, etc....
This pricing model I find irritating.
Interesting that one of the preview screenshots shows a Manley Nu Mu, a $2,500 mastering compressor from one of the best manufacturers in the audio industry. The interesting part is that it actually says Manley on it, and is using the Manley logotype. By comparison, Positive Grid has a Manley-esque EQ inside of Bias FX but they very clearly side-stepped the Manley brand name. as do most apps that emulate existing hardware, unless they've received the proper agreement from that manufacturer. I find it very hard to believe that a company such as Manley is endorsing this $4.99 app. However, I could be completely wrong about that. It does kind of make me want to at least hear what it's capable of. Dammit
@ExAsperis99 What is wrong with the try before you buy model? I actually like it. I've lost a lot of money buying apps to try them. I wonder if this app is any good....This app comes from the same company that does MicSwap--the mic modeling app. I have no doubts whatsoever that a true mastering engineer would be much, much better. I also don't have doubts that IK Multimedia's Lurrsen Mastering Console app is much better. The question is, how good is it? How does it rate when compared to LANDR? I say LANDR, because we all know where things stand with LANDR, and this app seems to be an app approximate...
I don't know the answer. That said, intuition tells me that it is SERIOUSLY doubtful. This company is known for device modeling though, so I would suspect that it could be modeled. I downloaded the app (haven't tried it yet), and it seems to not have many controls. I could be wrong, but it looks like you are limited to input/output and music style/genre presets.
Does anyone have MicSwap that can vouch for its quality?
To me, it looks fairly pointless. Why's all that background screen real estate just sitting there unused? Why is the waveform, the whole point of the app, so very very tiny? Why do all the "mastering" tools look like live sound fx?
And then I saw that they also made that 'can-hardly-hear-any-difference' app MicSwap Pro.
Yeah, I'll pass. Oh wait, how'd you guess?
Thanks for keeping me up to date with new apps tho, much appreciated, nice to have the option of choosing early.
To me it doesn't seem like a Try Before You Buy if you get a single use ("1 free trial included"). To me that's a scam. Also, no AB.
PS: I'm not about to download it for a single try, but I could totally be wrong about that.
@decibelle So you didn't like MicSwap then... Anything else about it you can tell us? Was there anything positive in your experiences?
Yeah, I'm with you on that on that. I'd begin to question a lot of things if Manley was onboard with this app. Not to say that it couldn't be good simply because of the price being so low, etc. But I am pretty sure they only allow UAD to model their hardware units as plugins. And those things cost a VERY pretty penny. Haven't tried mic swap, but Doug @thesoundtestroom did a video on it a while back. I seem to remember him giving it decent marks.
@ExAsperis99 Makes sense.
@brice Interesting! If Doug gave it decent marks, then maybe it's not too bad. I can't help wondering if this app isn't just a pre-set modeled gain, tied to a brickwall limiter, and then tied to various style/genre EQ presets......
Well, it didn't crash my iPad.
Real mics sound loads different from each other, the same mics with switchable capsules sound different from themselves, even. The app's emulation has lots of pretty mic pictures but the actual sound is like hearing the same mic owned by different studios. Maybe even more similar than that.
It's not like I hate the app or anything, it's just that to me, the name/description and functionality of it seemed completely unrelated to each other.
But I've only been a professional live and recording musician for 40 years, so what would I know, heheh.
Hope that helped you.
That is irritating that they only provide one single use as their "free trial." It took me like 900 attempts before I was sold on broccoli for christ's sake. All they had to do was watermark the resulting files, or have silence every 15 seconds. I hear that shit all the time when demoing plugins. But I do have to appreciate them offering at least that. There have been so many apps, tools, plugins, etc. I've purchased that have backfired due to no demo period, timeouts, etc. I wish more developers would begin to embrace this model. Almost 100% of the plugins I've bought for my desktop have all been purchased because I was able to demo them first. That's the standard for desktop audio plugins. Not so much on iOS.
Yes, that helps very much! Thanks for your input!! @decibelle
Hahahahah yeah, me too, lol.
But everything is more fun when I add broccoli.
Ok, end vegetable OT.
You make good points. @brice Does uninstalling and reinstalling the app reset your "1 free trial"?
I'd be willing to bet tonight's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast that this app IS just that. And I'm wildly hungry today.
Have you ever gone swimming with brocolli? I definitely haven't.
My pleasure, @Audiojunkie [insert Sirius Synernetic Plastic Pal Vox fx here] "Glad to be of service."
Good question. I'd be willing to bet not....? and that they make you sign up for an account before even getting in the app. I might be wrong about that. I just have a sneaking suspicion that a "signup with Facebook, Twitter, email" dialog is just inside the front door of this app.
No! But thanks, you've just given me my next holiday idea, awesome!
Do they book "Swimming With Broccoli" holidays anywhere fun, do you know? What about in landlocked urban community swim centres, right after "Hula Hooping For Seniors" but before "Pregnant Pool Yoga"?
Actually I might go to those too. Do I have to be pregnant, or a senior, or a hula hoopist?
I think you can try all you like (load files and listen to the "mastered" version) it is just that you can only export once for free. So if you like their effect presets and want to apply to your audio files I think it is a fair offering. From all I see, they're only fixed presets anyway, nothing really to interact with -- probably best for quick treatments of poscasts etc.
I bet you are right. I don't have any unmastered material ready to try yet, so I wouldn't be the best test example. It would be nice though if someone could try it and let us know the results. Better yet, we need Doug @thesoundtestroom to run the app through its paces!! HEY DOUG!! WE HAVE A NEW APP FOR YOU TO TRY!!
Unless the devs changed something since I deleted the app a few months ago, the very similar sounding preset in MicSwap Pro were pre-set in stone also.
If I wanted to design an audio app for people with no headphones, speakers or ears, with no interest in waveforms or customising, I'd probably take my cue from Future Moments LLC apps.
I'm actually interested now that I come to think about it, The descriptions are so unrelated, I wonder what those devs actually intended those apps to be for? Just prettiness? To get girls? Whatever it is, I wonder if it got done?
@decibelle If by "fun" you mean my backyard then, yes, they book the hell out of those holidays! Of course "they" is really just me. And the holiday component is typically just me crying with a soggy piece of broccoli stuck to my back because it's a terrible aqua buddy and overall friend.
But I'm hopeful from those two swim classes you mentioned. I kind of want to make a sandwich with them, sneak into the deep end right in between those two events. Best of both worlds style. I feel like if ever there was to be a perfect storm of potential to meet my dream woman, it's going to be in a place with old people, hula hoops and hormones. That's it... That's my new band name, hula hoops and hormones, I called it!
I admire the entirety of this sentence.
Here's the other thing, they're terrible. They've awakened a new pet-peeve I've been reluctantly fostering: if you are going to develop an audio app, and expect me to pay for it ... Put a damn 3 minute YouTube video up, give me a soundcloud link. It's a cloud, for sounds, that's all it does. You want me to trust you with my "Flat EQ" jams, and I can't even hear a snippet. Hello? It's an that is supposed to make things sound better. I don't give a rip about hashtags and whatnot. I'll make a Future Moments Swap in the present....Sheesh, this pet-peeve is really starting to mature with intent.
Thank you kind Audiobus-er! I am kinda pleased myself with how it turned out. Now all it needs is a melody line. Anybody know an app I can use? Oh, wait ... I mean, one from devs other than FMLLC.
But wait, imagine if FMLLC actually did put a video up. Do you really expect them to publish evidence of their multiple counts of app fraud and theft by deception?
But, but, that would mean they'd ripped us all off On Purpose? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
At least they don't seem to have gone so far as to generate multiple fraudulent reviews, at least not on the AppStore anyway. Both MicSwap apps have been up since 2014 and only one review has been posted, and that one actually has a word count of zero. So, probably by a friend and not their mother, I guess.
Oh wait, are you saying only buy audio apps from those few devs willing and able to demonstrate their good faith?
Heh, I saw what you did there.
Eventually.
Totally dude, totally.
You're welcome to it. Cause I already called dibs on "Insert Creative Funny Band Name Here" and "Soggy Broccoli".
why would files on soundcloud be better for evaluating than quickly downloading the thing and trying with your own material while also esperiencing the look and feel of the app?
To tell me whether or not it's even worth going to that step.