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.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Best ios daw to finish in logic?
I just have garageband, but i don’t mind pay for another daw if its worth enough (beatmaker 3 sounds interesting but cubasis or auria pro, probably are better), the problemmis that i don’t know a lot about integration apps between ios and osx.
The only problems that i noticed is that in garageband i can’t import midi or record inter audio apps in midi format.
The other problem is that if i import my project with the only audio unit that i have (noise from roli) i can’t get the sound because mac osx doesn’t have this plugin, and it even not exist, then i don’t know how much usefull are midi format (or if all audio unit has this problem)... but well if you have at least could edit in ipad something wrong and then convert to .wav to import to logic...
But i´m just start using ios, so probably i would notice more limitations in GarageBand, so please tell me:
1) what is the difference between import from garageband vs cubasis vs auria pro vs beatmaker 3 to logic
2) what is the way that you recommend me to work in ios and then export to logic, maybe something like work in auria or in beat maker and then import in garageband ios (because this programs have some special feature to do that and is very convinient,for example idk) and then with the project in garageband into logic.
If you want to recommend anothers apps which aren’t daws, please do it, any advice to help me take advantage of my ipad pro is appreciated.
Ps: i have a seaboard block and lightpads blocks. So if the apps that you recommend works with mpe feature its far better
Comments
For me, to take things as far as I can is to primarily export raw/mostly dry audio from iOS to a PC daw (in my case Samplitude, but whatever, tons of good desktop options). Sometimes I will export a few reference tracks from desktop back to iOS for basic overdubs or processing but for the most part it is, sketch on iOS, 'finish' on PC.
Whatever I use on iOS, it is all pretty much the same. BM3, Cubasis, Gadget, Modstep, Auria Pro, AUM, Elastic Drums/Blocs etc etc. it doesn't matter. iOS <---> Desktop workflow is what it is. Some apps export midi, which to me is just a perk for desktop overduds and some import it but I don't bank on any of that. At the end of the day it is about audio for me, as I know I can rely on that. There is not much clear overall advantage from one app to the other. There is nothing close to a seamless, smooth workflow that I have felt going back and forth between desktop <-> ios. Could be more about me than the platforms though but I reckon that is the state of things for the vast majority of folks.
Word on the street / Intua forum is there may one day be a BM3 on desktop... could be interesting but that is currently just chatter.
Surface / Bitwig is intriguing as it may offer more parity between mobile/desktop.
Thank you @AudioGus I though that would be a difference because i saw many times people and apple talking about the integration of garageband and logic, but its actually not much, for this reason i thought that maybe if you use another daw if its would be even less workflow , you couldn’t find a way to export your project to logic.
At one time (waaay back) I was hoping that I could import/export AAF project format from Auria Pro into Samplitude and import/export the midi back and forth but no luck. For me now though i am super super happy with how far i can take projects just in BM3 / Cubasis now and the next update of BM3 promises to be even better, potentially almost phasing out Cubasis for me. I feel for my 'demo level' of track that I can get around 70-80% on ios and then polish off the mix and select overdubs/fx on PC for the remainder. There are a ton of possible workflows and methods though so depending on your personal style etc 'your mileage may vary' with all of this.
Just out of curiosity what sort of tunes you making?
Cubasis offers a "mixdown" to individual audio tracks in wave, m4a or Flac format. Then those tracks can be uploaded to Dropbox in Cubasis and imported into Logic (I'm know waves are imported... not sure about the other 2).
You can also pass MIDI content easily using the same process:
Mixdown to midi file
Copy to dropbox
Import Midi in Logic
I suspect similar workflows are possible from Auria Pro and other IOS DAW's.
@AudioGus nothing in particular, just practice things that i’m looking in my classes or trying to write melodys of songs by ear (just to practice) and then mixing with some beats or loops and looks if thats fit, but for another hand, i’m learning how to work in logic, so its no necessary for my “Tunes” a good workflow beetwen ios and mac but if it had been existed with some apps i would rather have known before start to learn to use them haha.
@McDtracy thank you, for your information, i suppouse thst the only difference between garageband and another ios daw is thar garageband let you export the whole porject instead of track by track.
When you pass the tracks in midi you can’t get the same instrument in ios than mac right? Unless that your daw in osx would be the same than ios, for example logic and garageband. Or cubasis in ios and mac. Because the digital instruments would be in both version, but if i record A gutiar in cubasis with midi format and i pass the track to logic, i would have to choose another different guitar in logic because i will not have the same guitar in both daws, right?
It is what happen with audio units that you buy in ios, you don’t have the plugin of this company for example model 15 from animoog doesn’t sell the audio unit for mac, only for ios. So if i want to export to osx in midi format, i wouldn’t have the same sound, just the melody and choose another sound, right?
In that specific case, you should use iOS GarageBand merge feature to render AU as audio before export your project to Mac.
Switching projects between IOS and Mac does change many things.
I guess GarageBand has the most commonality of internal sounds. If that's important to you then start there. I guess you can just move projects between the 2 products but I have never tried it.
I would NOT assume a lot of commonality between IOS Cubasis and Mac OS Cubase. Maybe someone here can comment. Maybe they added the "Save Tracks Individually" option for this type of transfer.
The AUv3 products on IOS do not have counterpart products on MAC OS as "Audio Units". They just reused the AU letters but not the specifications.
If this seems frustrating now... you're just getting started. Making audio products with computers is often frustrating but eventually gratifying.
Even that garageband is so crippled, imo.
It is still the best workflow on ios , imo, this logic auto export and back is great, if u use SM one, Sunrizer, drc, u can have them on desktop also , with imported presets, GREAT!
@Janosax thanks for the tip.
@McDtracy so don’t exist any au3v that has a counterpart in mac os? Because i saw some like eos2 and ddmf au3v say that this purchase doesn’t include mac plugins, so i thought that some au3v actually have a mac version and i suppouse that if you export a project or track with this au3v and you have the plugin in your mac, it should work... or maybe you have to do the same again in mac and doesn’t have any conection beetwen them (?)
If i don’t missunderstand @yonhorizon recommend me au3v that works and could be imported from ios to mac (i suppouse that with an extra purchase)
And anwser to yout guess, yes you’re right, all the instrument in garageband ios are in garageband and logic pro in mac, i tried and its works perfectly, i thought that this happen in all daws, maybe thats the reason why the people talk about the integration gb ios -logic.