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.
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@skiphunt
If you just control the volume of the track itself then there's no ratio between wet and dry. But, maybe another why if this us what you're asking - if you put a reverb on a vocal track, you'd have a wet/dry control on the reverb. But if you put individual reverb on every track, you'll run out of cpu quickly and create an unrealistic sense of space (unless you're going for that). I mix live music mainly, either actually live or live in studio with overdubs, so those elements would be sharing the same acoustic space, with varying amounts of dry vs reverb depending on how close they are to you.
But, I use a "regular" bus, in this case, the group faders, to send my whole drum kit to one fader, to send all of my guitars to another, backing Vox to another, etc.
No AU= no go for me!
@skiphunt, Sends can be great for saving resources, and for giving you better control over certain FX. Reverb is a great example. Some advantages are:
The usage I'm describing above assumes that the dry signal is still routed out of the original track to the master, and only the wet signal is coming out of the send track. So, when you use reverb in this fashion, you want to make sure it has the wet turned up and the dry turned down. Otherwise you're doubling up on the dry signal that goes to the mix. You control the relative amount each original track is affected by the send amount control. You control the overall level of the FX in the mix by the send track's fader.
Another use is as a mixing aid. What I described above is sometimes called "Aux Send" because it's adding a new track to the mix. A sub mix send is more like routing "through" a track. As described above, you might want to route all your drum tracks to a single track rather than the master. That way you control the relative level of each track with it's own fader and the overal drum kit level with the one that you sent them to. Or, maybe you would want to send all the instruments to one track, the background vocals to another, and the lead vocal to a third, making it easier to adjust how much each contributes as a whole.
Of course, that isn't all the uses by any means, and everything I said can be done differently. Every rule in mixing is made to be be broken.
AU is coming eventually, and then you'll have lost the opportunity of buying the only Desktop class DAW on iOS when it was being sold for a fraction of the regular price. To each their own, anyway.
So far, this app looks really good, but is a bit frustrating to use. There seems to be no internal keyboard, which makes tapping in ideas so much harder. When I try to manually draw in notes, those notes seem to be in slow motion. Must be doing something wrong. Also, looking around, no one appears to have the foggiest idea when - or if - AU will be supported. I mean, come on, Auria Pro is being sold as the bees knees in IOS DAW's but is lagging behind AUM and Cubasis when it comes to AU stuff.
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Wow! Thanks a lot for the help clarifying this stuff. I had a vague idea before, but it's all much clearer now.
Haven't tackled trying understand time-stretch and warping yet, but maybe I'll give the manual another shot in the meantime.
Those are indeed the two main things lacking. But they'll come, I'm sure.
Meh cubasis 2 is also "on its way" don't care!
As my dear mother often reminded me:
Don’t care was made to care,
Don’t care was hung:
Don’t care was put in a pot
And boiled till he was done.
Little harsh, but things were more straightforward back in my day etc....
I don't get it!
I thought about saying "Nobody cares if you care" but then realized nobody cares if I care if you care.
I remember a company that had the slogan 'We care!", it turned out that they actually didnt give a flying-fat-freddies-cat about much at all. Watch out for the people who say they care, they're like the people who say they know.
I know.
That is a brilliant little saying. This is not quite as such, but...... Seems like as good a place as any to throw in an Obituary song from back in the day.
Wow, I have learned quite a lot about Aux sends and all that goes along with it. You guys have done an excellent job of explaining it and showing examples. Very very well done! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Yes, if you don't use an external keyboard controller, try entering notes with Lyra using a similar sound, then switch to what you want. Surely everyone knew AP doesn't support AU? It's been discussed here time and again. Personally, I don't miss AU much because AP has superior internal solutions for my uses.
Once again, AP is going through a long phase where the single developer is fixing the reported bugs or problems in a complex app. The piano roll is one thing that did get updated pretty extensively. Until that phase is finished---and nobody really knows when that will be---I wouldn't expect any new big features.
Global keyboard, and I believe AU-X, are on Rim's list of stuff to get to. If you follow Cubasis, you know that their list of user requests that are "included in our backlog" is very long. This isn't unique to Auria Pro.
I hope so. In the mean time, lots of interesting stuff to dabble with in AP, and of course Cubasis as my primary IOS DAW.
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Exactly. At 50% off usual price, it's a great time to buy this app trusting that what is currently lacking will be added. It's all about forward thinking.
Here's a link to the time-warping post from that tips and tricks thread:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/182293/#Comment_182293
Ok I've plumped for the upgrade.
Are there any decent tutorials on Auria Pro Midi? I've just imported a midi file but no sound. I guess I need to assign voices to the tracks? Something Cubasis does automatically.
Cheers
I'm pulling the trigger on this. Hopefully it'll be possible to Master effectively without having to buy loads of extra in app purchases. I'm guessing that there will be a decent multi-band comp and parametric EQ included.
Multiband comp is IAP only, parametric EQ is included on the Channel Strip
Cheers, just spotted this actually from my initial poke around. Pricey for iOS.. It'd definitely cost a hundred or so dollars extra to use this at a professional level, but as I'm not a producer it'll be more than enough for me. If anything was going to be commercially released I would probably pay a colleague in production to master it to a higher standard anyway. Do they ever have sales on the Auria store? I would love the Parametric and Multiband plugins from there, but right now I just can't budget for non essential stuff like that. Otherwise I'm just holding out for AU compatibility!
I like the workflow in general and it seems amazingly fully featured. Didn't have a lot of time to play today so looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into it properly. AuriaLink seemed a bit disappointing though, given the potential of such a cool feature (failed to work coherently at all and crashed one device). I was planning to run my lower powered/higher storage device with only audio tracks and my higher powered/lower storage (performance) device with Audiobus for hosting all MIDI, then just pass the bounced MIDI tracks over later for mixing/mastering.
Overall first impression is I'm amazed that a desktop level piece of software like this could even be available for iOS let alone work so well! Looking forward to learning how to use it properly and being a passenger on the 'Auria Train'!
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Sounds like the Hogwarts Express for IOS music makers.
Hopefully the destination is magical!
Ok I will bite, does auria pro support the larger screen of an iPad Pro 12 inch?
The Fabfilter plugins do go on sale occasionally, once a year or so.
Excellent. We'll see what pocket money is available at that point, then. Oh the joys of iOS purchases.. Certainly much easier than explaining a new guitar taking pride of place in the living room
I have the 12.9" Pro. I'm never really clear what "support" means in terms of the iPad Pro. Does that mean it works on the iPad Pro? Or does it mean that it has special features or orientation to accommodate the larger screen? If the latter, then no. Some of the controls and pop-up windows are comically small on such a large screen and could've been handled a lot better. Or, at least have given you the option to make things larger or zoom in to take advantage of the extra real estate.
The lack of an internal keyboard in an app and otherwise has three great internal instruments to use internally is absolutely maddening. I don't understand what they were thinking the way they set it up. That being said, sure, you can use an external keyboard to control the notes, and it works.
@StormJH1, Auria Pro has several iPad Pro optimizations:
The optimizations can be disabled in the Auria settings, if you wish. This will make all the graphics appear larger on the iPad Pro screen.
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