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ASlicer is on the bus!
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ADelay is also available -same dev.
And... It's... Free...
"Please note by using this app you give us the right to anonymously track and report user activity inside of the Application through the Google Analytics and you agree to the Google Analytics terms of service"
wtf? If you want to report my pathetic noises to Google, go right ahead buddy.
Some apps have an option in the system settings to enable/disable tracking and/or analytics. Not sure if that's the case with this one though
Good luck tracking in Airplane mode...
I suppose it could log everything then send when you have a connection
Well, if I have no connection, how's it know my location? I only have wi-fi.
Not location...user activity
Yeah, I asked the dev. Apparently it's which screens and which country. Still think they should put it in the App Store description though.
Seems many apps sends out user data, some do it telling up front and giving you options to turn it off. Some devs just don't give a crap about about being upfront with it. I'm sure we've got a bunch of devs here collecting usage info without you knowing it
All apps should do this. It's way for a developer to get quantitative feed back on how often users use a certain feature, how long they use a certain view, which steps people take to get to the same goal... It's good stuff! You can not track a phone's number or ID and you can not identify actions with an individual (not if following the TOD of Google analytics anyway).
I have mixed feelings re. The tracking. I do appreciate that developer is straight forward about it.
Anyone try it out? I'm not getting very far.. I can't figure out how to route it to work in Audiobus (and should it be able to sample from Audiobus) + purchases Instrument pack and can't figure out how to load sounds... Having a rough night. :-)
Sorry, re-read post. Doest make much sense... Was trying to ask: should ASlicer be able to sample from Audiobus? And, I purchased the Instrument pack but can't figure out how to load any sounds....
Update re: IAPs from ASlicer:
There is a fault with the store which has been resolved but we are waiting for Apple to approve the updates. Once the update has been approved press restore to retrieve the purchases.
Having some issues trying to use ASlicer if I load it first in AB if I don't, there's no sound. Is there a setting in ASlicer I'm over looking?
In general unless you load in ASlicer last in AB, you'll get a setup that won't work.
Don't worry. They already know about your problem since they're tracking and analysing all the usage data...
@PaulB - do you find issue with this? I mean they do say it in the description...I guess maybe they could go further by adding an 'off' option. They use this info to better serve customers, develop better and more focused products.
If it says in the description, it's been updated. It wasn't there when I checked when it was first mentioned here.
EDIT: Just checked again, it doesn't mention it. My issue, such as it is, is that they should be up front about it. Also, with regard to improving products, what's wrong with just listening to what users have to say via the normal channels? On the one hand, we have companies who are flat out ignoring the majority of their customer base over a much desired improvement (I'm looking at you, IK Multimedia), and on the other we now have devs who are availing themselves of my bandwidth to send themselves information about what screens I'm using. I don't know how it works in other countries, but here in the UK I have to pay for my internet connection and the data allocation isn't infinite. I like to decide for myself what I use it on. I'd lay odds that our best loved and most responsive devs are not using these methods, let alone not informing us until after we've downloaded their product.
Makes sense and I understand your aspect
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I buy 'Percussion' but can't have it!!!
Don't want to stir a can of worms but just for transparency: as I've mentioned here before guitarism does collect anonymized usage data. And I agree with @syrupcore that every app should do this, in order to ensure that it can keep moving in the direction that offers most value to its entire userbase (and not just the ~1% of people who frequent forums or send email). E.g. I recently started tracking AB usage in the app and learnt that only 1-2% of guitarism usage is inside AB - which fundamentally shakes up my understanding of what kinds of things people would want to see in the app, in a way that I'd never have figured out just by talking to folks here.
The amount of data bandwidth (and CPU, RAM etc) used is minimal, since it's just text / numbers. It also only reports data once per app launch, not continuously while you're using the app. And of course - all data is strictly anonymous and aggregated, so I'd never know what any specific person does with the app, I'd just know that x% of my users use the recording feature (or are on iOS 7, etc). There's no phone numbers or anything like that. The one place where guitarism does scan the user's music library (to offer recommended tracks on Rhism Nation), it first asks permission and the user can decline.
The App Store standard EULA for all apps (unless they specify their own EULA, which few do) has anti-piracy as its first clause, and consent to usage data reporting as the second. Admittedly no one reads the EULA but the fact that it's clause #2 means that Apple expects usage tracking to be a normal thing that all apps do - and of course iOS itself does this too. For these reasons I prefer not to have an "opt out" option in the app but instead understand the concerns people have with it and try to address those concerns.
Always provide an "opt out" option, irregardless of what Apple may think. That's just common sense. Personally I lean more towards sharing usage (and in some cases, user) information if that helps technology, in general not just music related stuff, move forward. But the option to turn any kind of usage collecting off should always be there no matter what.
Edit: That wasn't aimed at Rhism in particular, but to all developers obviously.
There are a lot of different types of tracking. There's location tracking, 'spyware' tracking, history tracking, advertising tracking, application usage tracking... so many. The one I'd suggest we all want is application usage tracking.
These are anonymous aggregate stats that tell a story about the app, not the user. Apps will be better if creators have a way to answer questions without asking users. There is a mountain of data that supports the famous Henry Ford quote "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses".
I'm not saying creators shouldn't listen to their customers, obviously. But I am saying there are other ways to figure out what your customers need and certain types of questions that can not be answered via user interviews. Usage tracking is one way to do this. Yes, it can likely be used for evil. It's usually not. Much more troubling is your ISP tracking your history or Facebook tracking where on the web you go (when you forget to log out via all those lovely 'share' and 'like' buttons littering the web). Or really Facebook-anything as that is all very very tied to personally identifiable info.
I use usage tracking in all of the web apps and sites I build. I use it to figure out where stuff is broken or what's popular and useful. When you design an app you make a set of assumptions like "Everyone is going to want to use this!" or "No one could possibly miss this button!". One way to test those assumptions is to implement usage tracking. It's amazing how often those assumptions are wrong.
I strongly dislike personal/ad tracking and hardly use facebook because of it. Marketing tracking is used to sell your info (well, habits but that's for another thread hijack). It's fucked. Indeed, facebook's actual product is your info. The site and app and features are just a way to collect and organize that info so access to it can be sold to their customers (who are the advertisers, not us - we're the product).
Anyway, I'm all for options. Here are some ways to opt out of different kinds of tracking. There are too many companies to really get this done entirely but here are some big ones that I know of.
For what its worth, the amount of data being sent by most any of these sort of in-app trackers is just above none. You likely use more data loading your average web page once than all of your apps with tracking on combined send out in a month.
Fucking A, sorry so long!
I don't care if someone lets themselves into my house for only 5 minutes per month, I still like to be asked FIRST and I still want to be able to say NO.
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Clearly this is a hot-button topic. In such situations I'm happy to pre-empt logic in the face of anxiety-reduction and just offer the opt-out option in my next update. FWIW guitarism uses Flurry so instead of waiting for the update feel free to go to that Flurry opt out link @syrupcore posted above and remove yourself from guitarism's tracked userbase that way. Good of them to offer that.
But since you guys are here, I'd still like to understand the logical reasons that someone would dislike usage tracking. @PaulB?
I don't dislike usage tracking, I dislike not asking first. Incredibly bad manners.
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Pretty much every site on the web does it and doesn't ask first. I like Europe's new thing of forcing site owners to let people know. Its so common though that it's not like site owners have to offer a no-track option - they just have to let you know and if you don't like it, you can leave. Sorta like apple eula, eh? Kinda pointless. Step in the right direction though.