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.
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True. My parents have always been on the forefront of technology, while I was happy to adopt their record collection. Then again, I maintain the tech they're keeping up with, so I'm not a complete dinosaur.
Some of the most enjoyable taking experiences I've had in my recent film-wasting phase of photography was with an Olympus µ[mju:]-II and its 35mm lens with a massive rear element:
https://flic.kr/p/7t6x1b
https://flic.kr/p/4wz6Y7
Was thinking about you men and your cameras and the old line 'the best camera is the one you have with you,' when I remembered that Henri Cartier-Bresson bloke and a quote of his I wrote in my recording journal a thousand years ago because it seemed to be how I felt about song-writing: "Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks." Probably explains why I have a lot of boxes and not a lot else....
convenience usually wins out, over time. if what is convenient actually works.
I had an Olympus film SLR years ago, and got a few arty still life and landscape shots with it, but not much else. Couple of years later I bought a little cheap Olympus portable, and it went 'on the road' with me for 5 or 6 years. Despite being film based, I took hundreds of shots with it, and the self timer meant I was in a lot of them too. Festivals, gigs, parties, people....life. Quality was definitely not in the 'arty' league, but for capturing memories it was priceless.
Kids - why make music, when you can make war (well in VR land, that is)
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That is part of the problem. Not everyone, of course. The trend for youth today is very much geared toward X-Box, and sadly, X-Factor.
I would love to see some young musicians leading a rebellion of the mind, and frightening the establishment the way the Sex Pistols did. Never Mind The Bollocks being 40 this week. But all they seem capable of producing is Olly Murs and Ed Sheerhan. Oh dear...
Yes a few escape the box in it's various forms, Viva Nirvana!
Is it true that younger people more often tend not to use simpler mobile-device-based set-ups for making music? That would surprise me. Is that a fact, or is it an assumption based on less participation on forums like this? I'd guess younger people are less likely to use this kind of resource and mode of communication, as it's pretty slow and wordy for their pace. Generalizations, of course. Successful young musicians are busy working and part of an established industry that is still heavily invested in elaborate gear, but I think many are also pretty savvy about what mobile devices are capable of.
iOS production still has too many compromises vs desktop. Plus it's only fairly recently that a true plugin story is emerging. Once a few more of the compromises are dealt with it may "go viral".
Right now the IAA instability, substandard project recall, protocol confusion, lack of biggest brand software etc have made it way less than ideal for many who've already invested in a 13 inch MacBook Pro.
.... lack of biggest brand software etc
There are many out there who, from a technical POV, are inarguably advanced on IOS. Yet making music that is boring and overproduced. In other words, the best available equipment does not make up for a lack of imagination.
Way back in time, skiffle was made by people using tin trays for percussion and a box with a broom handle and string for bass. It had no chance of competing with the lush sounds of 'pro' musicians in an orchestra. Yet it was the early sound of a revolution in music, how it was made and who made it.
Agreed that great music can be made on almost any tool. However people just prefer to use subjectively better tools when available. Good music or bad music may result no matter the tool
Way back in time people used the best tools they had access to, this hasnt changed.
Exactly. Also to quote @JohnnyGoodyear quoting Cartier Bressons: 'the best camera is the one you have with you'.
Also there is the problem of using new tools to make the same old stale rock'n'roll which I'm myself guilty off and strive to change.
In my observation Logic Pro on a Mac is simpler for them. I've observed a number of producers under 30. Just about every plugin they need, every sound they need every feature they need can be accomplished in totally integrated form with a $199 purchase from the Mac App Store. To introduce iOS music production to them is to substantially increase the complexity with no clear reason.
iOS production feels futuristic, it's just not ready for everyone yet.
This is true, @realdavidai. But what I was trying to get at was the people using the best tools, in my example (the era of skiffle) were the professional musicians in orchestras. All of them trained for years, and considered to be top quality musicians. None of which mattered to those who did not have access to that world, and would never be given the opportunity to join it.
Instead, they made music the only way they could, and from that minimal start and similar starting points such as black kids in the US singing on street corners, rock 'n' roll was born. Within 20 years it'd eclipsed the old styles in terms of creativity and sales. Sure, there were still - and are still - still classical musicians doing their thing, and doing it well. But are they as well know outside their sphere, influential and popular as, for example, Bruce Spingsteen? No.
So my little theory is that IOS, despite its technical limitations, may be the new frontier. What people of all ages, races and backgrounds can do with App Store music making software could, potentially, brush aside what is being done by those with multi million dollar studios. Why, because that world, like the world of classical music before it, is rapidly stagnating.
I went for the SE deal too since I was holding out for a new phone. I was a bit worried about the small size at first coming from a larger phone but I'm quite impressed with it. It's about 30% faster than an Air 2 I think. I was playing with Animoog with it last night and it felt really good at that size, really fun.
I'm into photography too, film and digital. So I'm keen to put the camera through it's paces, seems pretty good so far
I like the skiffle thought. And punk of course. A rabble of an unaligned movement which said 'screw having to have a college degree to be able to program my instrument' (a sentiment I still support
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Yet while punk was initially based on 'anyone can play anything', the truth is that of every average group of kids very few were actually in a band.
I think one of the issues with the availability/access afforded by iOS is that despite the technology, the ability to use LINK to keep in time, there are only a percentage of people who have the ability to write good songs. Multiply that idea by a large number of people who can now make credible ersatz songs, press this button to change key, make it go faster, make it shiny with reverb, and you're going to end up with a lot of derivative not-quite-up-to-par stuff that's feeding on itself. Let's also not forget that in any period, bathed in the soft gold of hindsight or otherwise, there's an awful lot of forgettable dross that's rightly soon forgotten.
The upside seems to be that whenever things gets stale popular music doesn't so much eat itself, but instead reinvent itself. I expect the next four years to provide fertile ground...
Yes I can agree that iOS music is the new frontier, it's just not there yet in terms of competing with a basic mac setup, not just in power but in flexibility and simplicity. Perhaps winter NAMM 2017 will reveal the right updates for iOS.
I have my doubts about iOS. 1st Android has more or less overcome the latency problems and the market is much bigger. Also shuffle with files is so much easier on android. 2st Browser Based, which is often open source, audio stuff is developing at a super high speed the last few years. Advantage of Browser Based stuff you are not dependent on specific hardware.
In 2010-ish I remember thinking about when I had to book studio time way in advance and record only by appointment, whilst looking down at the field recording gear I was lugging around on its own trolly, and feeling so amazed and pleased that my mobile kit with laptop, M-Audio Firewire 410 sound card, SM Beta58 dynamic mics, cast iron-based gooseneck stands, and a million and a half heavy cables was so tiny and portable!
Today's portability factor with my iPhone SE, MixPre-D, DPA 4060 with a few power packs and cables gives me a thrill every day.
What's coming audio future-wise? I haz an excitement.
Oh yes. Also, I agree with what you say concerning the amount of dross produced at any time. Plus the risk of sounding the same if from the same source. Which is one reason I avoid EDM and Tecno like the plague.
IOS, is giving us all the opportunity to think different, and try new really combos. The advent of Fugue Machine, for example, is helping IOS music makers to go where no one has gone before, boldly!
Other combos are also available, and limited only by sonic imagination.
As my other half said today, if someone could go back 50 years with what we all have literally at our fingertips, that person would be the revolution. We can't go back, of course, but we can do our bit to make the future interesting.
I honestly can't fathom how some people make music with tons and tons of gear and software. To me, the more shit I have to work with, the more organizational choices I have to make until eventually the organizational choices outweigh the musical choices and songs aren't getting finished. Music is simple. All that shit makes it complicated.
Who knows, in the future they may cut out 'the middle man', altogether, music for machines, by machines, then the android could dance the slow dance with the microwave.
Check out The Fat White Family. They are the only young band I know of who are capable of the fuck you brilliance of the Pistols, etc...
I don't think you will be disappointed.
Possibly, though even though Windows has had most of the desktop market share, Mac is still more than relevant for Audio and Video production.
Life on the couch, while I slowly succumb to entropy.
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I've heard the name. Will go have a listen. Thanks.
Another happy SE punter. Got it yesterday as an upgrade. Since I keep riding my galaxy s4 for phone purposes SE should do nicely as a discreet looping device and an obvious companion to zoom u24. My 5c wasn't cutting the mustard as far as multiapp business was concerned most probably due to ram bottleneck. Arriving Monday, can't wait to put it through some heavy looping tests.
I hope Loopy 3 is iPhone compatible.
LERVE.
Did you make that? Awesome!