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This sounds very off topic. Perhaps you should create a new thread about which strategies or why no strategies will be effective against Covid-19?
I strongly disagree (as does the evidence) that the sorts of public health best-practices being discussed (frequent hand-washing, social distancing ) don't have an impact on viral spread. The things you post haven't backed up your theory that nothing helps but total isolation.
You won't find people knowledgeable on the topic that agree.
Hand-washing and other practices won't stop the virus but they WILL significantly alter its course IF enough people adopt them.
Discouraging people from such practices is harmful.
There is no evidence that ignoring best practices is beneficial. Hopefully you don't intend to discourage these practices.
Old saying prevention is better....unfortunately we didn’t prevent, now we either get lucky, or have to deal in a reasonable sensible way with the implications of this virus.
@knewspeak wrote: we " have to deal in a reasonable sensible way with the implications of this virus."
Yes, those reasonable sensible practices include following best-practices from the public health experts and epidemiologists not ignoring them because they aren't perfect.
There’s another old saying, “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it.” Which is relevant on a thread whose title begins with, Positive Advice for dealing with Covid-19.
@Everyone Please respect the thread’s topic by limiting yourself to posting positive advice about dealing with Covid-19 in this thread.
Practical advice would be to make sure anyone directly involved looking after people most susceptible to the virus or in the frontline has the best equipment, protective clothing, childcare that your national system can muster.
Practical important advice also includes:
wash your hands with soap and warm water frequently for at least 20 seconds with the appropriate technique (or use an alcohol-based hand-sanitizer that is >70% alcohol if washing hands isn't practical)
Don't cough into your hand or the open air
Avoid touching your mouth, eyes, ears or nose if you haven't recently washed or disinfected your hands
Avoid crowded places
Help educate others about best practices.
These practices together will save lives. They won't stop the virus entirely but they will help flatten the transmission curve.
True... but that's a governance issue and IMHO beyond the capacity of this forum to impact so again:
"complaints about governance please".
You have every right to open another thread with it's own rules (which is really just a request).
This thread is for sharing information that helps individuals improve their odds in the face of virus risks.
And the odds of those they love or are in regular contact with.
Today I learned:
The virus is enveloped in a bubble of oily lipid molecules, which falls apart on contact with soap.
I'm sure many think washing their hands with hot water when there's no soap left is better than not.
So, carrying hand soap for your own protection when out and about is a good idea to helpful to yourself and
others.
Shit like that helps. Japan has taken extreme measures to limit and isolate those infected and is showing dramatically improved statistics in comparison with Iran for example where they did not discuss or recommend person actions that
could be helpful.
Sometimes people despair that as an individual they can't change anything so they opt out of playing any role at all.
That creates additional problems to be addressed by putting out useful advice. Everything at the macro level is a numbers game. Support the numbers that help and do not hinder the situation.
It's like this bucket brigade to put out a building fire and 10% of the people stand by and say... this won't work... you're wasting
a lot of energy.
Hey everyone - we're all entitled to differing opinions here as that's what makes this world the interesting place to live in that it is.
This thread is intended to be helpful and supportive of those in need. There's a lot of scared people out there, so please keep it civil so we can all support each other.
Here’s an article which contains steps individuals can take to reduce Corona virus infections written by a social epidemiologist.
@knewspeak @InfoCheck @espiegel123
Your back and forth has led me to a very interesting find, based on an initial clinical study from wuhan, that ties in nicely with things you’ve been discussing. I’m just going to quote it as it has some very interesting observations and include links to the original study (apologies if someone has already posted this). Might be helpful to the forum about complications that are causing fatalities.
What is COVID-19 Cytokine Storm?
Before introducing COVID-19 cytokine storm, we must get the knowledge of cytokine storm. As describled in the article entilted "What You Have to Know about Cytokine Storm and Virus Infection", cytokine storm is the phenomenon that a variety of cytokines in the body fluids are rapidly and massively produced after the body is infected with micro-organisms. This is actually a large number of viral infections triggering the "suicide attack" of the human immune system.
COVID-19 cytokine storm acturally refers to the cytokine storm caused by COVID-19. Some reports have revealed the direct cause of death from acute COVID-19 is that the novel coronavirus destroy the human immune mechanism and trigger excessive immunity causing cytokine storm. Moreover, cytokine storm damages lungs and multiple organs of the human body (heart, kidney, liver, etc.) , and eventually leading to multiple organ functions exhaustion.
Why Does COVID-19 Lead to Cytokine Storm?
The cause of COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV), one of coronavirus. The SARS-CoV-2 infected humans for the first time, and the human immune system didn't recognize the virus. Studies have shown that the SARS-CoV-2 enters cells through angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). For this reason, lung tissue has become the main invasion target of the SARS-CoV-2 with high expression of ACE2. After the virus entered the lung, the immune system sent a large number of immune cells to the lung tissue to kill the virus. This formed pneumonia, and the patient showed fever, cough, and difficulty breathing.
However, these immune cells cannot locate the virus accurately because they are not recognize it. They only attack indiscriminately and recruit more immune cells to kill the virus. Once a cytokine storm is formed, the immune system may not be able to kill the virus, but it will certainly kill a large number of normal cells in the lung, which will seriously damage the function of the lung. Patients will have respiratory failure until they die of hypoxia.
Quoted from this article
https://www.cusabio.com/COVID-19-Cytokine-Storm
Original paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31986264
Also this bit at the end about treatment was also interesting, was from the original article again.
How to Treat COVID-19 Cytokine Storm?
Currently, the treatments of COVID-19 cytokine storm primarily focus on the following four principles:
Anti-shock therapy (treatment of symptoms, life-saving first): infusion to ensure blood volume, application of vasoactive drugs, mechanical ventilation if necessary, protection of important organ functions;
Support and symptomatic treatment (restoration of physical strength): routine infusion, maintaining water, electrolyte and acid-base balance, nutrition support, etc .;
Inhibit excessive immune cell activation and cytokine production (curative, seek recovery): clinically, hormone therapy (adrenal corticosteroids, etc.) with appropriate doses and treatments is often used, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and free radical scavengers ( A lot of vitamin C, vitamin E) and so on.
Antibody-neutralizing cytokine storm (precise treatment): neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against elevated cytokines to prevent severe disease and death.
@mister_rz that sounds like a lot of medical intervention is needed once the COVID-19 cytokine storm gets going in an infected individual— all the more reason to focus on what we can do to avoid being in that situation or passing the virus on to someone else. If too many of us in a given community are in such a condition at once, there may not be enough available medical resources to administer all of those life saving treatments or they may not be enough to save our lives.
Yes, we need to focus on the things we can do. There is overwhelming consensus among public health professionals about the simple things that we can do : all of which can have a hugely beneficial impact. The goal is to slow transmission rates. This has the effect of reducing the number of people at any one time needing medical intervention even if the total number of infections for the year is in affected. If the hospitalizations are spread out over the year, most people will be able to get medical attention. If we don’t slow it down, there won’t be the resources to give attention to everyone that needs it.
Impeding the virus’ spread even a little bit has a huge impact on flattening the curve.
Please folks follow public health guidelines.
@InfoCheck
Most definitely, been seeing a few experts talking about slowing the rate so it doesn’t overwhelm healthcare systems and all the medical staff on the frontline. My partner is arranging to work from home today, I’ll have a busy day or two setting everything up, (including reapplying thermal paste to my old mbp) just about to pop out to get a few more supplies.
What is worrying is the chinese, south koreans and italians were on it quickly, but it still spread fast, some of other countries are moving at the speed of a glacier, including mine😬
@mister_rz : the Chinese government didn't jump on it right away. They actually impeded early attempts by doctors and public health folks and then jumped in big after things started to explode.
No one quite knows where we are in the curve , but we know that we can do things. We can just do what we can and not wait for large-scale events to force us to change.
It can be very challenging for people or organizations to deal with as its effects are not uniform and change over time. Not everybody has the luxury of staying home from work for example. Perhaps it might be a good idea to open up another thread about positive suggestions for organizing communities to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on them?
@espiegel123
Definitely x2, I have to work on a strategy to convince my dad to be careful, as he is on the high susceptibility range, but he’s stubborn as a mule and thinks this is like the flu, as he hardly catches the flu, his thinking is he and his pigeon lungs will be fine. I don’t want to frighten him to much tho, as his blissful ignorance might help him not to panic if he comes down with it. Much work ahead.
Yeah I’m seeing that in a few countries, but once they kicked in, especially how populous and city focussed they are, is pretty amazing that it didn’t spiral out of hand. Early stages still, hard to tell where this is all going, especially as developed nations are balancing economy, supply lines and health, just hoping the economic side doesn’t blind the health response, as it will end up being more costly in the long run.
Perhaps you could come from the perspective that while he’s not concerned, you are and that you’d feel better if he humored you by allowing you to arrange the delivery of groceries for example? I’m sure it’s a very tricky and delicate situation so the best of luck in working with him on it.
Yeah me and my partner are both lucky as our jobs revolve around tech, lots of people can’t afford to stock up or take time off. Reading about the effects of closing schools will have on nurses who rely on their kids being in school so they can work, especially as loads will be called up for extra hours, during an out break.
Haha, I will try that out, so simple it might just work, all the best to you and yours too.
Here’s an article about Corona virus on surfaces and how to disinfect them.
All schools in Cyprus will be closed for 1 to 2 weeks this Friday..
It’s a sensible but inconvenient move.
If I might posit a point or two.
Across the world different countries, nation states and cultures differ, this has been studied, theories formed, and I’ve even taught them at university level. If anyone is familiar with Hofstede’s work on Cultural Dimensions, that’s the sort of thing I imply. Among the measurable dimensions in his schema are: individualism-collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; power distance (strength of social hierarchy) and a few more.
What China did worked for China, where the ruling power can basically say to the people “this is what we’re going to be doing” and it happens. Some people have been pointing to the human-rights related bruising, etc, but everyone can agree it works. Could all countries do that? No.
The UK is far more individualist, the Americans even more so, I believe, and European countries are scattered along the individualist side of the continuum, very few are as collectivist as China, and for example Japan where the notion of a salaryman as a job for life is a present (though somewhat dated) ethos, where you give all to the company and in return when you get old and unproductive, it will look after you. This doesn’t work here in the west, where companies spit you out readily. America seems to not trust their government at all, we in the UK sort of do, in that we definitely rely on it to make things better (“my toilet is broken, I’ve written to the council asking them where I stand”, etc). We’re not as individualist as the Americans but we’re on the scale. We don’t have survivalists, for example, it’s too much bother.
If a western nation-state were to begin the proceedings by clamping down and saying “we’re going to do these measures, and that’s what’s going to happen, you have no choice”, there’d be considerable revolt from the populace, ranging from grudging resistance “who do you think you are, you can’t tell us what to do” to armed survivalists actually ganging up and fighting back against police and military enforcement of policy, in other words, actively resisting what is the obvious best practice thing to do.
How do you handle this nuisance individualism, then?
You express what will happen if things get really really worse. You point out that things aren’t at that stage yet. But if they do get to that stage, this is what we’ll all be doing. But we’re not at that stage yet.
Intelligent organisations and people will, of their own volition, coming to their own conclusion, making their own individual minds up, decide not to wait, we’re going to do all those things now, and we thought of it. We’re not going to wait for the government, we’re taking the action that the government is too slow to do.
When the governments then enforce the policies and behaviours, everyone, most everyone, the smart lot, will simply exclaim “but we’ve been doing that for ages, we decided to do that, it’s correct that we should all now be forced to do that, it’s the correct thing to do, and we decided to do it ourselves before it became the law”.
If you don’t stage things out like that, you get resistance, and this will only slow the process down at a point where you really can’t tolerate any such impedance and lack of forward motion. If we in the UK did what China did, we’d fail to do it and by the time we got sufficient traction, it’d be too late, far slower than what’s actually happening now. I hate to say it, but Boris has, accidentally or not, managed to get this exactly correct.
Totally agree.. But Cyprus is not stopping tourism.. There are Rented cars everywhere... More so than normal this time of year.. But to be fair, it not a congregation, or collective of people, in one place, say like a concert.. & I would of imagine people would be sensible about it.. As life goes on as normal..It’s Like playing Russian Roulette with a sneeze, & not a gun.. 😂
Interesting. It says that according to the CDC there's not been a single confirmed case of transmission from contact with a surface:
Also interesting - transmission rate is much higher on less porous surfaces such as stainless steel than on nonporous surfaces such as money.
All this, sort of opposite of the implications from an article posted earlier.
Bottom line: wash your hands, and don't let anyone sneeze or cough in your direction. I've learned so much I didn't already know today!
On the other hand, my wife just came back from out in public and I found she had never really thought about washing her hands on return (or preferably sooner), so I was able to explain rationally why it was important. The next thing she did was ask me if it was safe to open a package she received from China and I was able to reassure her that unless someone infected sneezed on it and it was shipped less than 48 hours ago, and it wasn't made of stainless steel, she was pretty safe. But ... then she didn't think wash her hands afterward.
So ... even though "wash your hands and don't let anyone sneeze or cough in your direction" seems like nothing new to me, all the posting of articles is good by way of reinforcement.