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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Air one still running fine here on 10.2 no crackling or other noise to report . I do treat my iPad fairly carefully though. She's been a good girl and the main reason to trade for me is space. The extra horsepower of the new pad would be nice though for future use no doubt however.
Agree. Apple want to sell iPads, but seems like I've been waiting for an age since my Air2 for anything I really want to spend the big money on Apple now want. If they don't give it that WOW factor, they can keep it!
I'm also waiting for the correct 9.7 form iPad Pro to upgrade to. My Air2 is more than good enough until then, which is good because I'm going to have to pull some serious funding in before the point of upgrading!
The pros look really 'Pro' now, compared to the newest standard line iPad. However before the release of the budget iPad, it seemed a little skeptical how pro they really were, in comparison to the Air2. The lines could just as credibly be named 'iPad' and 'iPad Lite', although they obviously aren't as that would command a different price tag!
To be honest, iPads have been getting atrociously powerful since the Air2 and beyond. The luxury headroom that the Pro ones will provide is amazing of course and provide some extra future security, but it's by no means necessary. Any realistic live performance setup is going to be optimised enough to run on anything from a Mini4 up, and if the primary sound source is a vocal or other external instrument then you'll happily run it on a Mini2 or up. I run pretty complex processing setups with all sorts of production, vocal effects and extra resonator padding from Samvada for my wifes vocals and Khomus on my Mini2, while I work on my Air2.
Of course at home, as much power as you can get is going to be fun to play with (I do envy you guys with twelve iPad Pros..) but in live performance you need to get things down to a level of elegance and optimisation where all that extra processor power is just going to be redundant.
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When building setups I consider four main factors:
Complexity - How much shit is going on under the hood?
Possibility - What can you actually DO, instantly, in a performance setting?
Reliability - Will it crash? How?
Elegance - How little complexity is required to achieve necessary possibility? How well it it optimised to use minimal resources?
In performance, 95% of possibility comes from interface. For example I could do a hell of a lot more in performance with just the AUFX 4, AUM and a MIDI controller, than with all of Sugar Bytes apps combined together and FLUX:FX on top, all running at the same time. Intelligent signal flow and MIDI mapping is the most important factor defining possibility for performance.. how many apps you can run at the same time has very little to do with it!
By the time you've optimised your performative possibilities down to a degree of elegance where almost all your potential possibility is being utilised in the most fluid and processor effective manner, you're going to struggle to find a 64 bit iPad that CAN'T run it!
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The thing I desire most is more screen real estate, without a way bigger iPad. So I'm really interested in this larger screen on standard body size possibility. Either that or eventually I will just get another Air2
Good point. iPads and tablets seem to have become low end consumer products. As long as people can browse the web, play some games and watch YouTube movies it's enough. If you want to do more you buy a notebook or computer. iPads with high specs is are niche products for people like us muscians. And Apple seems to have dicovered this too by release a cheap ass (for Apple standards) new iPad 2017. Although in my eyes it can't compete with the much cheaper Chinese Android tablets that can do the same and don't have the limitations (cutcopypaste everything) that iOS has.
This whole PRO thing reminds me of the Surface Pro (Microsoft). Nearly all the persons I know that had one changed back to a proper notebook. This whole tablet with keyboard thing is just something for a small niche market.
The dilemma I always find myself in is:
Windows laptops for music: Windows is a pain. Windows isn't great for touch. The UI keeps me at arms reach if I want to feel it as an instrument.
Mac Laptops: Way too bloody expensive for what they are for myself. Have same UI shortcomings and will probably never really take touch onboard.
Surface Pro: Slightly more in tune with what I would like interface wise, but Windows and the software still doesn't embrace touch. The software lacks the great pricing of iOS.
iPads: Love it being a touch device first and foremost. Love the great pricing making entry into easy, and can build up a great set up of software slowly. Small screen real estate. Lacks the ease of moving files and storage of laptops. Lacks the peripheral selection of laptops. Make some things laptops can do easy, like pulling teeth.
Other touch devices seem to hold just as many compromises.
I've come to the conclusion, even if money was not an object, music making on any computer is about weighing up which compromises I will have to make. At the moment, the thought of multiple iPads seems to be my future direction, bolstered by one true non computer instrument (most likely going to be a bass guitar)
Windows 10 has already some great Audio software designed for touch: BitWig Studio and FL Studio. A year ago I bought a HP Stream 7 (Windows tablet) for 40 euros. Though it's too small (7 inch screen) for FL Studio to run, Caustic runs like a charm on it. btw Windows version of Caustic is free. So for 40 euro I have a totally dedicated Caustic tablet with all the advantages of a proper OS. As @Max23 says iOS development seems to have stuck. Which has in my opinion more to do with that Apple wants to have it as closed as possible.
A lot of angst going on here.
Yeah gotta say whatever the future, my future won't be VR, AR, MR or any other such thing lol. I just want a nice portable thing I can run my hands over, plug into some decent speakers and plug some decent controllers into. Christ, they can't even make decent controllers yet that don't cost more than my car
Ps very cheap second hand car lol
Yeah I've still not completely discounted a Surface Pro, but still not convinced enough over two additional Air2s lol
I don't actually see this logic. Moved to Ireland 6months ago and couldn't bring my desktop pc so just borrowed a crappy netbook as I thought I would need it. Nope! I never power the thing on. Happily, my iPads (plus a €15 Bluetooth keyboard) cover me for every digital task I need in my life.
Currently editing a book and working on production of two albums, alongside live performance duties!
Depends where you are coming from. Sure, I can understand the issues if you come from a desktop DAW experience. However, there are many of us that come from hardware(cassette mulitrack and Roland 880EX here) backgrounds and simply routing anything thru my Apogee One into Auria is a freakin' dream. From there to sharing it directly to Soundcloud or audiocopying it to Audioshare or Dropbox...my gawd!
Yeah completely laptop free here at the moment. Apple recently tried to give a little push to iPads as a laptop replacement, yet the amount of times I get told to connect to a computer sort out certain tasks is quite unreal.
When I queried this sales pitch, the answer from many was it's fine for most casual users, which just is not true. Most casual users now have used a laptop for many years, even those that still struggle with them. They love the ease of use in some ways, but try explaining to someone with limited knowledge that you just can't move files around as easily as you can on a laptop and they look at you gone out. Try explaining to someone trying to connect their iPad to such and such device, but you need this adapter or even not possible. Try telling someone that they no longer have the room to store all there songs, pictures and films actually on the device and watch their jaw drop. Try telling someone that without that old laptop they were trying to get rid of, they will not be able to mix all of there music libraries together under one app!
Then you say to them....it's a bit like your phone (if it's an iPhone) and then realise what you just said. This device that was sold them by Apple to replace what they did on a laptop, just doesn't do some of the laptops commonly used of functions easily.
So, yeah it's not really angst. It's just frustration that we have these devices that are now getting so powerful and so useful for making music, but we still need to lug around old laptops to accomplish things our old crappy laptops have done for years.
Tough crowd here.
I bought the iPad Pro 12 inch on launch day. Use it with the logitech create keyboard and pencil.
I stopped carrying my laptop as this does all i need it to.
Yeah doesnt do drag and drop but i can work around that. This Is the only things i miss from a traditional laptop.
Im a PC dude and an android fanboy but the iPad Pro exactly meets my requirements.
Clearly its not for everyone since there are many here who dont like the 12 inch pro, but for me, its pretty rad (typing on it now).
Yah I wouldn't either.
Yes. Isn't it bizarre how a company with over 40 years of experience in the computing biz have managed to come up with a fantastic device that's somehow incapable of performing basic computing functions without pulling out your hair. I just don't understand the logic behind needing to perform gymnastics just to back up your photos to other device. How difficult can file management be even if it is a sandboxed device. What is wrong with good old drag & drop???
Do you know iCab browser?
) developer.
Your example would've been easy in iCab. It can download all kinds of files to the download manager, zip it and email it.
I use it as my daily browser since 2011. It's got many options and is highly customizable. Plus good support from the (German
I highly recommend it to everyone browsing a lot on iPad. Safari feels crippled in comparison.
Fun, fun, fun!
Lol that was funny
Just tried installing the new Clips app, and discovered there's been an iOS update I didn't know about. Interesting...as the rotation bug tends to flare up when updates become available, so maybe this will fix it until the next one turns up.
339 Dollar, a nice touch screen and all of this power. Not a bad deal.