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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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New dad syndrome
Still working hard on Loopy Pro on my non-dadding days, but it’s been a full year. Samplebot is a little preview of some of the Loopy Pro features, built from the same codebase. Pro will see the light of day this year.
Long time loopy user here. Not much of a recommendation since no matter what else comes on the market I snob it
Loopy pro will be a cherry.
I've been trying to get some use out of Looptree again, but I guess Loopers ain't exactly my stuff (performance-wise), so I went back to Loopy
Group The Loop is my favourite, it's very intuitive, reliable and I like the GUI better than Loopy. Lots more features now than when this thread first started btw: complete MIDI binding, timestretch etc. And the first loop doesn't need to have a specific tempo or length, which is a massive plus.
I like Blocs Wave too but for pre-recorded loops, as there's a tiny bit of latency when recording new ones in it.
The problem is that the $50 hardware looper will give you roughly 18% of what say, Loopy is capable off. Whether you need those extra features is another story. A fully featured Boomerang or a flagship Boss will set you back at least 8 x £50.
I think hardware will always have the problem where you have to adapt to it rather then try and convince few fellow users on this forum to send a feature request to the friendly developer. Mind you, some hardware companies are better than others at updating their firmware.
Of course with hardware you mostly just whip it out, plug it in and play which is not quite the same with iOS.
Loopy. I've tried them all and it's still king.
Couldn't agree more except I did end up paying for a looper pedal. I bought most of the looper apps and the Behringer FC1010 and still found them all too unreliable in a live situation. The RC-3 does everything I need and just reliably works every time. I also bought the Digitech JamMan because I invested in the SDRUM which is the best pedal I have bought. The JamMan syncs with it whereas the Boss didn't. Both just work. I'm now selling the RC-3 but only because of the SDRUM.
Apps are just too risky in my opinion when playing live.
Live looping is risky by definition. Hardware usually is more reliable but vs LoopyHD I bet for it. I started looping over 2003 with Ableton and over the years tried lots of hardware and software and my conclusions are:
So as One man band playing my own songs Youtube seems the right platform instead searching for gigs locally with limited crowd etc etc... and then stability is only a must if I go live streaming. If I have a problem recording a video for youtube I can try again until get it as one shoot without all the risks of going live.
Loopy is still the most reliable option even with buggy iOS11. It has all the features without any of drawbacks of hardware loopers.
Thanks for your input.
Can you elaborate on your experience with iOS looping on live gigs? Others can chime in here also.
I’ve only had a handful of songs where I’ve used Loopy on stage and would love to hear how it’s working for others with more experience.
Well when I started I used iPad 3gen and is202 dock. It was very stable setup with iOS 7 if I remember right... easy to use and zero issues in right conditions... but sometimes you left the iPad on the sun and learn about heat warning of iDevices.
Other experiences in different clubs, Hiphop parties and museums at night very reliable and fun. Often I used dedicated hardware for fx (pre: Aira vt3, post: kpq). Most fun a possibilities than my old sp555. I learnt to use one machine for each task since AB and livefx wasn’t working perfect everytime but hardware loopers neither and were more limited by far (before rc555 came but then it was too expensive for 3 years old workflow when it appeared).
Then we add risk vs revenue (aside enjoyement) and I realized I can loop just with the phone (loopy works on iphone4 too) so under 90€ years ago I can get a dedicated pseudo hardware looper with more features than even the rc505... but what about song structure?
I asked Michael and he said Loopy Masterpiece... years had gone from that. I continue researching... midiflow for keystroking like bome back in the days, external clock to avoid unsync... an ended when I sold my mac mini for my actual mini4.
I can do more than never but iOS updates wrecks the platform so... I’m not going to back for certain wokflows and probably yes for others.
Sampling? Nop. ReSlice gives me the best of my old VariOS. Blocswave the best of my old Fruity slicers...
Looping? Neither. There is one single hardware looper that can give you security but that’s ok. Looping is experimental so you must choose where the balance fits for you.
For me Launchpad (iOS10) or GTL as backing tracks live looped at home are winners. Loopy even in iOS11 (like garageband) so when I go looping on stage is only for two reasons:
** Experimental setups where feedback isn’t a problem more than part of the song (noise) itself or...
** Presentation/interlude song to introduce my crowd to the tool but nothing else. I love music and respect the crowd over any other thing so if I’m not in the first situation (experimental) noise and wrecks are enemy of my music. Do loops due it’s cool is like perform bestbox when I have a drummer... redundant. So I only loop when I really need it and only beatbox when I can play the same with other tool.
Grooveboxes? I learnt from some devs that iOS has some compromises being loopy the nearest to hardware but not equal so, external clock is a must. Period.
It also gives you an extra tool for transitions. The problem is cheap&portability means less features so volca or old electribes are the few options on budget. You will need to mod the first to get midi clock out... link was a solution before iOS11, now is broken in most apps and when you switch over some of them go offsync...
Which brings me to nowadays. I bought a itrack dock studio pack to record some vocals over my Blocswave tunes and I will set again a looping machine with 5s and some midi stuff. I will try to sync and see how it goes but once again one machine one function.
5s loopy (or GTL) and mini4 Launchpad/Garageband or similar (looptunes, soda...) and let’s see if link works.
inspirations sake: my 3 fav loopers ... the first is special cause I want to be mr. dosh when I grow up but of course I will never be Dosh, or ever grow up.
binkibeats is uncanny in his skill
and of course....
I'm curious about this too. The proof is in the pudding. The loopers are good on ios, but there are a lot of moving parts- 3 at least: an ipad, an audio interface, a foot controller. Lots of cabling, power supplies, and several of the connectors are dinky consumer shit, worrisome in dark clubs where your gear gets piled and moved haphazardly. I would probably try to build sort of a pedalboard type thing, where everything (except the foot controller) was stuck to a piece of plywood, and all the cords were zip tied down, and the power supplies and a plug strip were stuck down to the board.
Hi mates,
I updated my topic about GTL for iPhone (or AUv3 looper) at GTL forum. Could anyone interested show us some love? I can double it here but it’s tiring...
http://forum.grouptheloop.com/index.php?p=/discussion/190/iphone-version-let-s-talk-again
@Michael any news on something related to this?
No infinite looper love?
Nice one! I had not heard of this Binkbeats fellow. Very inspiring.
I think OP was talking about audio loopers.
Ahhh, totaly forgot about GLT.... I have been wanting to do an on the fly wandering jammy project... thanks for the reminder, this may just be the host.
Woha, AU fx was just added... hmmmm, mmm
I believe LoopTree would be the best choice with Ableton Link, AUv3 support and multiple inputs and outputs, because it’s veeery visual and easy programming (it’s possuble to change groups live like GTL). But nowadays I my choice is Quantiloop PRO: it allows me record the first loop and it sends Ableton Link messages automatically!
I dont see anything about Auv3
1- LOOPY HD for studio
2- Loopersonic for mixing samples
3-Looperverse for using Audiocopy specific files and related apps such as iMPC
4-Group the Loop for LIVE
LOVE to learn the Quantiloop app, have it full version.
Need to put some time into it right after I read the manual for Xquence.
Looptree was a total failure. Promises and abandonware. There's not even LINK which was also promised.
Everybody forgets Samplebot which you can also see as a looper in my eyes
Heckz, I was on a 'which looper' kick for a few days, even started a pros/cons doc like a big old nerdy nerd only to say, wtf i have Cubasis, done.
Flux:FX by a mile. Obviously not if you want to save individual loops but for speed, simplicity and performance it is by far the best.
The problem is the BPM must be over 120 for long loops to work and moving the loop cells around in the chain crashes the app.
Live FX is great. I wish Cubasis could add a feature to delete all automation at once for when you mess up and need a retry.
How do you plan to use it? Pre-recorded loops or live looping?
I've purchased LooptunesDJ this year and in the end it was one of the biggest disappointments. It looked great at first (very nice UI!), and it does work with the loops you get as in-app purchases, but the missing sync to MIDI clock, no way of using the slicing feature on your own samples, and finally the fact that once a bug was fixed I soon found new ones, including frequent app crashes that got worse under iOS 11, took all the fun out of seriously using the app.
I wouldn't call it a looper by the way, and there's great alternatives like Group The Loop, Loopy HD, Quantiloop Pro, even BlocsWave has its charm if you're always working with quantised 4/4 beats.
To me Loopy is still the tip of the iceberg. 12 loops, on the fly length, link, extensive midi, IAA and AU via deep audiobus integration.
If @Michael could only allow several actions per midi message, one could assign say cc3 to several loops at once and basically have groups that can be muted and unmuted when needed for verses, choruses etc.
Loopy Pro will get there one day I’m sure but I respect the hours the dev is putting into AB at the moment, especially considering the family enlargement etc.
I do look at other loopers occasionally but...not buying
@AudioGus are you actually using Cubasis Live?
No I used loopers just for pre-daw mixing ease of recording... and now i am just doing it all in BM3 as it looks like audio tracks are recording super reliably after ios12! Either that or I am just have a lucky run right now.
I’ve made that request before GTL was released and Michael said masterpiece...
So as workaround you can use midiflow...? I never tried it or use next seq on my TFP which change sequences quantized and I bought to made which GTL/Ableton makes...
After my deception with iOS I’ve lost trust so looking for dedicated hardware but the options are few and expensive for something not so important in my setup, needs and enjoyment...