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...but which came first?
Doesn't matter. The cow is bigger.
EE-I-EE-I-O
Dagnabbit!!!
On a serious note, I must say the Looptical manual is one of the most well written manuals I've come across in a long time. Full of info and easy to understand. Well done @Mark.
Fantastic app. Anyone else dig the cool "Geometry Lesson" demo. I put it on repeat play :-)
I think a lot of developers under estimate the power of a well-written thorough manual. It can really set an app apart from others in its class.
I've now got it - quality product and good value, I can see it being very creative, and in many styles too.
Here are some sax and trumpet sounds for Looptical by Sergey on Ipad Musician FB page. You can also get them from MooCow website. I set play style to notebend, added a little reverb and delay. Awesome sound.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xukewidzikuhzve/K.SD2.zip
Anyone wondering how to save the instruments you imported...
When you import an instrument it just outs it in your track list, in order to save it:
It's simple, just not very straightforward, so figured I'd say before someone asked
There are two steps to this, and a longer explanation that in the manual may help.
First of all you import an instrument from iTunes Shared Folder (or, as we're learning on iPadMusician Facebook group: directly within the iPad with the iCal app). This gets added to the current project. User-created instruments get stored along with the project (always) so you never have the situation that you erase an instrument and then break some old song you forgotten used it. If you export a project with user-instruments in it, you'll see the file size is much bigger than one with just presets (where it just stores a link to the preset instrument).
Then you have the ability to export an instrument, which you do from the Details tab of the Track List - where you would be if you were creating or modifying that instrument. One of the places you can export to is the "Instrument List". You would do this if you wanted to use the instrument again in some other song, and as well as being in your current project, a copy is placed on "disk". You get to choose a category to put the instrument in (say "Lead Synth"), with the idea being that you can build up a bit of a library of instruments if you want.
So in essence I think you were expecting to be able to install these instruments into Looptical as you might install an AudioUnit into Logic. Instead you actually install them into the current project and can optionally export them from there to the global storage of the Instrument List.
You can also use Goodreader to unzip and open in Looptical.
Also iZip
iZip is working well for me. NST files (as opposed to ZIPs of multiple NSTs) open straight into Looptical, which is a bit easier.
@MooCowMusic I havent seen mention of this iCal app? It let's you import from iTunes? Please add link, thanks
Not it doesn't. iCal is a browser I believe. This is about clicking on a URL to a Looptical instrument and having it load in Looptical. If the URL is to an "nst" file then you can just tap "Open In Looptical" in the dialog that comes up. If the URL is a "zip" of many Looptical instruments then you can use various means to extract them on your iPhone and then import them into Looptical. The best way I have found is with a free app "iZip". Install it. Then tap on the "zip" URL, extract within iZip, and then click on the nst files there to import to Looptical. Ideally people should be saving Looptical instruments as "nst"s and not zipping them, which removes the need for this step.
Import from "iTunes Shared Folder" is not the same as "rip iTunes audio", which is perhaps what you thought. That's something I might add in the future, but there is no functionality to support iTunes ripping in Looptical right now. Very likely there are other apps that will do it for you and place the audio in the pasteboard from where Looptical can get to it.
Hey thanks for the thorough reply.
It was your line...
"First of all you import an instrument from iTunes Shared Folder (or, as we're learning on iPadMusician Facebook group: directly within the iPad with the iCal app)."
...that I was referencing.
I haven't pulled the trigger on the app yet...still researching!
One other quick question...are the piano keys resizable?
Thanks
Yeah you can resize the piano keys within the keyboard set page also you can have it dual layered..
Thanks Doug!
Looptical and Sampletank are a great combo via AB.