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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TL;DR: buy one.
I've had mine a year now. It's great. Most of my life, I've been a pro piano player, so you might think I'd hate the clacketty plastic keys, but I don't. You can't play Rachmaninov on it, but it's brilliant at what it does. I've used it in Cubasis and Gadget mostly, and it's rock solid in both. No latency that I can detect, and it weighs virtually nothing. My other keyboard controller is the Arturia keylab 88, which spends much of its time in a cupboard because it's huge (wonderful, too.) Most nights, I'll spend at least ten minutes noodling with the nanokey.
When we travel, I can fit the ipad, the nanokey and a bluetooth keyboard for writing into an amazon basics soft laptop case (another tip from this forum). Add earbuds, and I can write, watch videos, get online AND make electronic music with these amazingly capable tiny devices. I feel like I'm living in a Philip K Dick novel half the time.
Precisely.
I’ve had mine a year and a half now. Still love it. I’m not a keyboard player but use it more as a controller. Good performance via USB even without batteries in it. Built very solid too.
+2, Nanokey Studio. Replaced xKey as my go to mobile controller and overall fav after EWI5000.
Guess I'll be the dissenting vote. Had one, liked the convenience of Bluetooth, worked well enough with Gadget and other apps, portability was great...but couldn't get along with the keys. Too much like pushing buttons and as a keyboard player, did not allow the music to flow as I wanted. Sold it after it sitting around for a few months and bought a KORG Microkey 37 which I'm much happier with despite the lack of knobs. Don't really miss it...
I have mixed feelings. I love the convenience and, surprisingly, really like the keys a lot once I started using it and got used to them.
The feature I most bought it for, the x-y pad, I roundly hate. I also really don't like that you can only switch midi channels by switching between one of the 8 scenes which you would have to set up ahead of time using a PC or MAC.
For those two reasons I wouldn't buy it again. But I do use it all the time and enjoy it regardless.
This sound suspiciously like the review my wife might post about me...
I bought the Nanokeys and Nanokontrol 2 together. Returned the Nanokeys after like, a day but kept the Kontrol. Just couldn't get on with those tiny QWERTY feeling keys. My recommendation would be the Keystation Mini 32. It's the same money, it has 32 touch sensitive mini keys and silky smooth data entry knob. Really happy with it!
The pads and keys need a good banging to get full velocity. I usually place it on a mouse pad to absorb the banging. A good tip with percussive and bass elements, or ambient pads is to set your arp range between 1-2 octaves and an appropriate scale and use the kaoss pad for interesting randomisation.
Another tip is you can use the pad to assign the transport controls now, to start and stop recording, works like a foot pedal.