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 Store

Loopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.

Apple made the right move

1234689

Comments

  • @lala said:
    What I find very funny is how the tec blogs are absorbing the apple pr,
    Some just repeat the yada yada from the pr team,
    "The wireless future", lol
    I have much less blogs to read now, gee and I thought these ppl had a clue. :D
    It's really an eye opener how ppl absorb what they are told.

    Haha, "the wireless future" is just like "the paperless office". :D :D :D

    Too funny, I have been saying for the last 9 years where I work that we are paperless. The carpet walkers have even donned us so. When ever a provider orders an exam, it must come from EMR, not a paper copy. Everytime we enter anything into the patients medical records, it's always electronic.

    Yet........We use more paper now than we did 11 years ago. We use so much damn paper, that I think they must be planting tree's just for us.

  • edited September 2016

    @mschenkel.it said:
    My 2cents
    I think that what everyone in the world needs in this very moment should be a huge leap in battery technology: to me looks like that portable devices' power consumption is demanding more and more resources with such a fast pace while batteries technology isn't innovating enough to keep a good balance between design and functionality.

    That is being worked on :)
    Will charge in minutes and batteries won't die a slow death anymore (doesn't hold significant less power after x cycles)
    They published that paper last year about this time
    I have no idea how long it will take to go to town with this
    A few years, I guess
    If we are lucky 5?
    They even showed a video of how they drilled through the batterie with an electric drill and nothing bad happens (no more exploding/burning telephones in our pockets/houses)
    Research from MIT (if you want to google for more info)
    http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n10/full/nmat4369.html

  • @Nkersov said:

    @animal said:
    The devices we all use here are proof, that apple does care about professionals, too.<

    Eh? Sorry, I'm not getting how mass market products such as an iPhone, iPad and the bloody awful watch are aimed at professionals.

    Okay, there is the iPad Pro, but that could and should have been supplied with pencil and keyboard, and with 8mb RAM plus 512gb storage. Still not there with any of those things, not even close.

    Apple are not evil, they're simply greedy sods. Surely, there comes a point where billions upon billions could be used to make products a little more accessible to those without mega deep pockets - thus empowering so many more - and to genuinely innovate?

    The point was that Apple cares about professionals, not that the devices are aimed at professionals. Somehow the fact that these are mass consumer devices, and everyone should see this as obvious, still continues to elude some people. No, they are NOT made for professionals. Because of the power of the devices, people use them for professional applications, and Apple does not simply ignore that market. That market receives the attention it gets based on numbers and, arguably, Apple caters to more esoteric desires than they really need to. And unless we know Apple's longer term vision for a technology, we don't know how they intend for changes to ultimately impact the more professional uses of the devices. It's also silly to conclude that, because Apple is doing away with 3.5 jack, they're trying to pull in some money selling alternatives. If they needed some extra revenue, they could simply raise prices and not have to deal with all this whining about headphones.

  • @mschenkel.it said:
    My 2cents
    I think that what everyone in the world needs in this very moment should be a huge leap in battery technology: to me looks like that portable devices' power consumption is demanding more and more resources with such a fast pace while batteries technology isn't innovating enough to keep a good balance between design and functionality.
    One example: iPad's battery cycle at minimum brightness almost doubles the operational time. I could do that with my ipad2, I just can't with my pro . it will be too dark for comfortable viewing even in pitch black conditions. I guess this was a deliberate decision so Apple could state a up-to-10 hours battery life.
    This innovation is much needed, specially when we/they/whoever are betting on a wireless future because having a palm sized device comes to no use if I have to take around a car battery all the time

    I have been staying on the sidelines hereabouts, just waiting for the time to go by, but the battery thing (for me) is and has been the new mousetrap...

  • edited September 2016

    I always have to laugh when apple talks about all day battery life >:)
    And then you look at the specs and they mean 10 h :D
    Then I say well days must be awfully short in sunny California.
    My day has 24h,
    I could life with 18h of battery but 10h isn't enough if you are anyhow like me.
    That's a thing that would be easy to fix, double the thickness and give me double the battery time. ;)

  • edited September 2016

    All childish I want I want I want besides
    I think the iOS hardware is ok,
    But iOS is the problem.

    if you are looking from the iPad perspective on it.
    I had hopes they may kill the MacBook Air and just replace it with the iPad Pro with iOS for iPads or something.
    Microsoft needs to lower their prices to put pressure on Apple so they step up their game. I have a feeling nothing like that will happen if they are not under market pressure.

    I don't need to be able to run Mathematica on the iPad and I don't want to,
    But for us creatives Photoshop and logic on iPad would be like gods (Buddhas, Allahs, Maneki-neko, Or whatever you believe in) finger from the sky pointing on the iPad.

    Apple needs to hear this daily from us. o:)

  • edited September 2016

    @lovadamusic said:
    Somehow the fact that these are mass consumer devices, and everyone should see this as obvious, still continues to elude some people.

    I can never make up my mind if you actually think you are smarter than everyone else, and have to explain the obvious to all us thick folk, or if you just have an unfortunate patronising and condescending way of expressing yourself.

    Either way, while always keen to read and discuss the other fellows view, I'm really not in need of your enlightenment, and know what I think.

  • @wigglelights said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    The future many many years ago

    Umm, with respect, this isn't that far from what's being used at any major event these days, the only different being the parallel port. Have a look at Yamaha's Dante system - a hundred channels of audio, video and dmx are happily traveling down a pair of cat5 or fiber cables. The IO racks at each end more resemble a snake box than a fan out cable, but this was an early step towards that.

    Now imagine it with a Lightning cable. With respect I think you missed the joke.

  • edited September 2016

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    The future many many years ago

    That's the breakout cable for a BlackMagic Design Decklink - the Extreme or Studio, can't remember. It's like that because the product itself is a PCIe card. It's not a parallel port, just a huge cannon-D connector on the card end. The small one is not so much an RS-232, rather, a Sony video tape deck serial connector for remote control of the deck by the card and Media Express software.

  • edited September 2016

    I cound not read the full thread (too long), but I confirm that for me it is a big loss... I always use the headphone jack to make music (which means I'm plugged in several hours a day lol) and I think it will be a reall pain in the ass for me to loose the possibility to continue making music when my iPad's battery is empty now that we'll have to choose between pluging the audio interface (line6 on my side) or the charging cable in the lighting interface... Bad moove for me...

    I would not feel the same if they had annouced that the headphone jack was actually replaced by a lightning port (i.e. having 2 ligthning port on the iPad)... My concern is about the fact that we go from 2 ports (jack+lighting) to a single port... That's a shame IMO !

  • @ElGregoLoco said:

    I would not feel the same if they had annouced that the headphone jack was actually replaced by a lightning port (i.e. having 2 ligthning port on the iPad)... My concern is about the fact that we go from 2 ports (jack+lighting) to a single port... That's a shame IMO !<

    >

    Actually, two lighting ports plus a free adapter for 3.5mm would be good news. If only Apple listened to such good ideas.

  • edited September 2016

    @Nkersov said:

    @ElGregoLoco said:

    I would not feel the same if they had annouced that the headphone jack was actually replaced by a lightning port (i.e. having 2 ligthning port on the iPad)... My concern is about the fact that we go from 2 ports (jack+lighting) to a single port... That's a shame IMO !<

    >

    Actually, two lighting ports plus a free adapter for 3.5mm would be good news. If only Apple listened to such good ideas.

    Yes in agreement. A single do all port is not a good idea. If that idea is taken forward and applied to iPads and laptops, I see this as a precedent that needs halting. Apple have already shown a leaning towards this approach with the 12" MacBook.

    Yes, I expect the usual arguments from those that can not see the problems of this approach. People are expressing that the real problem is one of expectation. Yet there are still many of us that cannot afford a new device every year or two. There are many of us that believe these devices should last longer than a year or two at their cost.

    I expect my laptops to last for more than two years. Most I have had five years before replacing. Not due to complete failure, but due to inability to run modern software. iPads are now entering into the same cost bracket as a decent laptop. Apple themselves are expressing how iPads can replace much of the need for a laptop. Are my expectations of a product having the same length of use as a laptop unrealistic? I don't think so.

    Now in reality many iPads do last a decent amount of time. One area where they do have problems is the extended wear of sockets. I say extended, because while my laptops have many sockets and multiple options for some usage, iPads do not. So reducing all ports to one single use socket is likely to reduce the average time that the device is usable.

    To those that say my expectation of devices that can cost nearly £1000 is too high, well let's just agree that you obviously have more money to burn. Lucky you :)

  • Slightly off topic, but still relevant.

    I was looking for a better quality lightning cable, yet have now decided against such a purchase. My reasoning is that while the standard Apple cables are of low quality materials as far as lasting is concerned, they put less strain from movement on the lightning socket than a thicker cable is likely to do. Obviously the cost of new cables (while not cheap for what they are), is a lot less than having the lightning socket repaired.

  • @ElGregoLoco said:
    I cound not read the full thread (too long), but I confirm that for me it is a big loss... I always use the headphone jack to make music (which means I'm plugged in several hours a day lol) and I think it will be a reall pain in the ass for me to loose the possibility to continue making music when my iPad's battery is empty now that we'll have to choose between pluging the audio interface (line6 on my side) or the charging cable in the lighting interface... Bad moove for me...

    I would not feel the same if they had annouced that the headphone jack was actually replaced by a lightning port (i.e. having 2 ligthning port on the iPad)... My concern is about the fact that we go from 2 ports (jack+lighting) to a single port... That's a shame IMO !

    Yep, port wear is my worry as my phone one's knackered from just charging use.

    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    From a practical and ecological perspective I'd say that was a fail.

  • The Lightning cables from Apple are really not good, I had to tape all of mine, they always break at the point after the plug where it's only the thin cable...

  • @Fruitbat1919 said:
    To those that say my expectation of devices that can cost nearly £1000 is too high, well let's just agree that you obviously have more money to burn. Lucky you :)

    >

    Just looked up the iPad Pro 12" model with 256gb storage and bugger-all in the box except for charging cable and adaptor is now almost £1,030.00. The nearest Microsoft Surface Pro 4, with 256gb storage, plus keyboard and pencil is almost £945. Less is more, I don't think so.

  • @lala said:
    The Lightning cables from Apple are really not good, I had to tape all of mine, they always break at the point after the plug where it's only the thin cable...

    Yes and the cost of them is just rude for how weak they are.

  • At least Apple don't make inkjet ink.

  • @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @lala said:
    The Lightning cables from Apple are really not good, I had to tape all of mine, they always break at the point after the plug where it's only the thin cable...

    Yes and the cost of them is just rude for how weak they are.

    Are there any good aftermarket solutions?

  • @soundklinik said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @lala said:
    The Lightning cables from Apple are really not good, I had to tape all of mine, they always break at the point after the plug where it's only the thin cable...

    Yes and the cost of them is just rude for how weak they are.

    Are there any good aftermarket solutions?

    I asked the same question here only a few days ago. Yes, there are some great and much better value aftermarket solutions. The problem is that it's weighing up how strong you want your cable. The strength usually comes at the cost of some rigidity. While they still bend, often you find they don't bend as easily and as a consequence, put more pressure on the socket itself.

  • @MonzoPro said:
    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    Ooof. 4 hours. That's lemon juice on the salt.

  • @JohnnyGoodyear said:

    @MonzoPro said:
    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    Ooof. 4 hours. That's lemon juice on the salt.

    That's progress, 2016 style: 'making things slightly worse for more money'

  • @JohnnyGoodyear said:

    @MonzoPro said:
    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    Ooof. 4 hours. That's lemon juice on the salt.

    4 hours, that's sad. I listen to 4 hours of music on a bad day. Granted not all on earbuds, but on a plane ride, or in the car, could do it easily.

  • @High5denied said:

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:

    @MonzoPro said:
    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    Ooof. 4 hours. That's lemon juice on the salt.

    4 hours, that's sad. I listen to 4 hours of music on a bad day. Granted not all on earbuds, but on a plane ride, or in the car, could do it easily.

    And that's from new....like any battery it'll lose charge quicker the more you use them.

  • @lala said:
    That's a thing that would be easy to fix, double the thickness and give me double the battery time. ;)

    You can already do that with a battery case. You're complaining about things that aren't, by your own standards, problems.

  • @MonzoPro said:

    @High5denied said:

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:

    @MonzoPro said:
    Guy in the Apple Store told me you'll get about 4 hours use from fully charged earpods, and obviously that will go down over time to a couple of hours.

    Ooof. 4 hours. That's lemon juice on the salt.

    4 hours, that's sad. I listen to 4 hours of music on a bad day. Granted not all on earbuds, but on a plane ride, or in the car, could do it easily.

    And that's from new....like any battery it'll lose charge quicker the more you use them.

    And.........4 hours of use, with a 4 hour charge time? or.......Doesn't seem optimal/efficient. Wonder if the batteries will ever blow up? That might hurt a bit. They using lithium-ion?

  • Wait until they release the full headset battery life will increase and they'll stay in place, hope they name them on honour of Tim Cook & Co. 'The AirHeads' :D

  • edited September 2016

    I'm with the people that doesn't care the 3.5mm jack it's gone.
    This post by the developer of ferrite, Hokusai and mitosynth express really well why these whole thing has been blown way out of proportion while acknowledging some people might have real concerns.

    http://www.wooji-juice.com/blog/headphone-hijack.html

    Another thing. Does anyone actually knows how good/bad the latency from the apple airpods actually is?
    As far as i know it's a proprietary solution and not just usual Bluetooth. Not a lot of people make music with their iPad/iPhone but millions of people play games, minimal audio latency it's as equally important to some game's experience. I imagine apple thought about that, people that will buy the airpods will expect them to work with games. Maybe it's not as good as 10ms or less but it might be better than usual Bluetooth and it will improve with time.

  • @SecretBaseDesign said:
    Everyone is wailing about the loss of the headphone jack, but after thinking about it for a few days, I'm convinced Apple did the right thing.

    First of all, iOS music makers are a tiny fraction of Apple's customer base. I'd be surprised if we're more than a tenth of one percent. Most people play games. And make phone calls. And take pictures. They tweet and Facebook. There are a hundreds of things that they do that are more common than creating music.

    The iPhone and iPad are technological marvels, possible only because of the massive sales. All the R&D that goes into creating these gadgets, the chip design, the fabrication -- crazy expensive to get the pipeline going, so it only works if there's a huge market. If Apple let the interests of .0001% of their customers dictate their design decisions, they'd never be able to do anything new, the size of the market would shrink, and then they couldn't build anything.

    Remember the floppy drive? Gone, in a much criticized move by Apple; turns out, it was a good thing. DVD drive? Gone too, and almost no one misses it. They never had BlueRay or HD-DVD, and that turned out to be the right move. There's probably someone somewhere, with a stack of VHS tapes -- and Apple doesn't care about them either.

    Remember the switch from 30-pin to Lightning, and all your dongles stopped working? Thanks to Lightning, you can get more power in and out, much higher data rates, and a connector that fails less (yes, the cables fail, but not the connector -- when the connector breaks, you're really hosed). You can stream audio out over Lightning to your desktop using software. Yes, the switch was annoying, but it was still the right thing to do.

    Here on the Audiobus forums, I'm sure we all remember to move from iOS 7 to iOS 8, and the introduction of IAA. If you were here then, you were probably very upset. And if you're here now, you got over it.

    If you really need a 3.5mm jack, you still have options. There's a little adapter that plugs into the Lightning port. You can plug in high quality A-to-D boxes from FocusRite, Line6, Apogee; all of these will sound better than a built-in jack.

    Personally, I use Bluetooth or the Lightning connector when I jump in the car. I use music IO to connect to my desktop. I use a FocusRite dock when I'm making music on the iPad. And if I'm just listening to music from my phone, wireless earbuds seems like a pretty good solution to me.

    From a manufacturing perspective, the headphone jack has been a dead port walking. The days were numbered, and it was going to get killed off at some point. The maximize reliability, and minimize cost, you want to eliminate any openings in a device -- that's why Apple has gone for sealed batteries, no flash ports, and so on. In my real life, I work with a lot of electronics design folks -- across the board, the reaction to this is "it's about damn time."

    Any time anything changes in iOS land, there's screaming. People say that they're leaving, and never coming back. And then they're back a week later. I see the lack of a headphone jack in the same way that I see the missing 5-pin MIDI port; it would be cool to have, but it just doesn't make sense for a device that's going to get sold to a billion people around the world. Welcome to the future, so sorry it isn't exactly the same as the past....

Sign In or Register to comment.