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.
Comments
Ooooohhh... I'd love to get a copy of that one too @Hmtx. I really need to get more proficient in MD, but I'm also trying to figure out Lemur, so I'm not moving very fast with either.
Hadn't thought about using midi designer to expose more of loopy onto a single screen. I just might need to buy it now. Would be cool if loopy had a faster way to program its midi control though. It's perfect for setting up a couple of toggles but wholesale replicating its UI from another app sounds like two nights worth of screen flipping frustration.
Hmm... maybe if midi designer got on the bus it could include two buttons in it's AB menu: 1) 'trigger the selected controller' and 2) 'go to next controller'. That way you could stay inside of the receiving app's midi learn mode, trigger the midi controller, move to the next, trigger the midi controller...
@spookyzoo exactly ¡ʎlʇɔɐxǝ!
Yep, making MIDIdesigner pages on one single iPad is a painful endeavor (when you get to making the bindings). If you can work with two devices, it is so much easier. Also, more apps need a way to save and send MIDI binding presets. That way I could share the MD layout and send a file with the Loopy bindings ready to go. Maybe it's accessible with ifunbox... Haven't tried.
Hmtx, I know nothing about MD, would it be too much to ask for a little write up on what you did and how you went about it? The idea of controlling Loopy like that is intriguing but I'd like more detail on how it all works. Thanks
Jesse, I could try... I think first I would recommend perusing the http://www.MidiDesigner.com site and then come back with questions. There are a lot of videos there by the dev. Of course, download the fully functional free version first before you buy. I just saw they tweeted the 50% sale is on thru the weekend.
Basically the process is just creating knobs, faders and buttons in MDPro, fiddling with making sure they are operating how you expect(all of this within the app, no PC), then opening up Loopy's MIDI learn "add binding" settings and adding each control to Loopy one-by-one. It does take some time, but I understand people say its quite a bit easier than the complexity of Lemur.
Anyway, before we fully de-rail another topic with MD, I was hoping people could chime in on automation. I'm completely happy with Loopy for audio looping, but there are times where I stumble across a great note pattern and wish I could just loop it via MIDI and tweak the sound for a few bars before settling on something I want to send to Loopy. Any ideas?
@hmtx sounds like a job for midi designer and genome.
if you can control genome patterns and record/erase/rewind via midi that is... Sync loopy with it and amen. Hook us up!
Ah yes, I've been waiting a long time for a Genome sale, picked it up this week. Genome's MIDI learn function looks awesome, but limited to things related to playback as far as I can tell, no MIDI learnable record buttons! Aargh, so close. That would make it perfect for controlling it from MIDIDesigner.
Anyway, the way Genome works now, it seems like it would have to be the main app on another iPad. I'm not sure I want to do that.
I am really impressed with how Genome records notes and knob tweaks, at least in Animoog. I need to play with it some more to see how well it captures Animoog crazy notes like the legato and Polyaftertouch. The best part about genome is that I don't have to fiddle with the note grid or a step sequencer. Those are the death of my creativity, almost as bad as a DAW. ;-).
So overall, yes, Genome seems to work good for MIDI automation. But no, not really gonna work for live performing without pre-recorded MIDI patterns. ...unless others have figured it out and know better than me?
I don't know about Genome yet (tho it's on my list to explore) but have you seen what Ani does by way of live looping using Nanostudio? Quite impressive, and she manages the video so one has a chance of studying her technique:
Dude, that was great! Thanks for sharing that.
I started a YouTube playlist with all these live looping vids. Feel free to post more in this thread or send me yours that you record (yea!!) and I'll add them:
Btw I left a message for Rob Gentry (from the video in the first post) on his Twitter and it sounds like he might stop by this thread to give us some tips!
I hear Sean snagged him for an iosmusician interview, coming up soon.
Excellent! I was thinking that'd be a great idea!
Heads up tip: NW Loopers Festival is happening in Seattle Oct 10/11 and Portland 12/13.I'm signed up for the 10th. Looks like it'll be a blast. 8pm - 2am schedules.
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NW-Loop-Fest/450944748284180
Web: http://www.nwloopfest.com
Cool to know @dwarman, thanks! I'm in Portland. I'll definitely go to one of those nights.
This guy might be worth checking out, for those who aren't familiar with him. He uses iPads often in his sessions...