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Wait how do you do/use hidden loop length dial? Hainbach be damned, I’ve done enough off the grid musical exploring at this point in my life to know when I want the grid. I don’t wanna be forced off the grid!
That's a valid thing though, not a joke. Some modular sequencers -- I'm thinking especially of the Doepfer A-155/154 combo -- allow you to modulate gate length, tempo, number of steps, etc. It's easy to get off the grid that way. I haven't explored MiRack enough to know how much of this is possible with the sequencers available in there.
Too right, I was surprised that it wasn’t the standard way it worked, still am to be honest…
I still love it though, this thread prompted me to spend most of the evening just playing notes into it to a beat and it’s just such a lovely way to pass musical time 😊
Thank you! And yes indeed it is, especially with this discovery
Is there a way to have the "Monitor" always ON??
A quick question.
It says that it can do seemless loops. If I start recording a sound that’s already playing (A drone in AUM, for example), will Gauss be able to play that section back seamlessly, with no click or slight fade at the beginning of each cycle. I'm trying to loop a pretty consistent brick-wall of sound.
Thanks
@el_bo Yes that usually works well but then you may notice a slight volume drop at the fade point. The brick wall might sound best when you're using multiple loopers that don't crossfade all at the same time.
Thanks!
What do you mean by fade point? Is a fade of some sort unavoidable with looping?
Avoiding clicks is always about choosing a compromise. X-fading is often done because you never know at which level the waveform jumps and the larger the jump from end to beginning of the loop, the louder the audible click.
Cross-fading can help but it cannot be perfect. If it's too short, it won't affect the audio as much but it also won't safely prevent audible clicks. Longer fades will remove the clicks but affect the audio.
I'd vote to make the fade time and end level adjustable but for now that's something I can only imagine solving in Drambo as a looper (using Flexi etc.).
Thanks!
I guess these are things I have filed at the back of my mind. I very rarely work with audio, so haven't encountered it all in a while.
Working in AUM doesn't give a lot of options for editing, so I'm trying to use workarounds. Unfortunately, there are parts of the piece that are exposed, so can't be covered by other loops. In fact, it's quite 'clean' for a drone piece, so I've been trying to avoid the obvious solution i.e to use delays and 'verbs to veil the noticeable points.
At the moment, I'm using keyboard lock/infinity in AUM's keyboard, and fading in the parts as necessary. But it's quite difficult having to juggle all the different keyboards to set it up (And AUM won't save the keyboard state, unfortunately).
I'll work something out.
Thanks for your help
You're welcome @el_bo!
Another trick is to launch a recorded loop "manually" and use an envelope release to fade out as soon as the triggering note ends.
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Will have to think more about this for a different project.
Had to abandon AUM. Tried to recreate the idea on GarageBand…in MIDI. No looping issues and less of a feeling of spinning plates, but not without issues of its own.
Just commenting to say how wonderful this app is. One of the best on the App Store, imo. Was messing around with it for the first time in a few weeks last night and had a ton of fun. Might even be the start of a new track.
Just bumping my previous question, anyone, any tip to have the "monitor" always ON?
Looks great. What keeps me away from buying it is that I bought ENSO, some years ago. Never got around to using it, so it feels like I shouldn't be buying another looper type of plugin. GAUSS does seem way more intuitive than ENSO, though perhaps not as flexible. Must dig into the manual for the AD plug. How difficult can it be?
Interested to hear anything you make with it.
Totally different workflow and vibe. It may or may not be to your liking. You should be able to get a sense of what its about from the various videos of it on YouTube.
What is your use-case?
Use a bus node to duplicate your input signal, split into two channels/tracks. Put Gauss on one, leave the other as-is. On the track with Gauss, add the bus node just before the Gauss node. Other track receives the bussed signal.
You would then leave monitor off in Gauss, and use the other track to control the monitored signal, using mute and fader to set on/off state and volume level.
Gauss does very different things to Enso. Both can simulate tape looping but that’s the only thing they have in common. Gauss becomes much more of an instrument in itself.
They’re pretty different as far as workflow so I don’t think they’d cancel each other out. I use them in totally different ways. Gauss is also a lot easier, imo, and a lot less buggy. Feature wise, it’s not quite as packed, but it does what it does extremely well and it’s fun. A top 5 app for me.
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Definitely watched a few videos, over some months. I definitely like that it offers instant opportunities to mangle and degrade the sound i.e without first having to load into a sampler. But then, of course, it isn't too much work to use a separate sampler. I do like the idea of the degradation, but it's a bit of a shame that it seems to veer towards more of a digital degradation, rather than exhibiting more characteristics of Haibach's tape-loop destruction stuff.
Not sure I'd use the sequencer aspect, but maybe.
I guess it's not so much about being aware of what GAUSS can do, as it is about being less aware of what ENSO can't do. Certainly, when it comes to Youtube content, GAUSS is favoured.
Will have to look again.
Thanks!
I guess that the impression I have is that ENSO is closer to a traditional looper than a creative effect/instrument.
I might be wrong
Cheers!
The feature-packed-ness of ENSO does seem to make it a little less intuitive. That, and the more cryptic interface. And I've heard enough comments about stability issues to make me consider perhaps just writing it off as a loss (I think I bought it about 3 years ago), and not waste the time to learn it.
But I'd be curious to know how you use ENSO, specifically. ore than that, how does the instability manifest iself, and is it a show-stopper?
Thanks, again
So I’ve really only dove into Esno a few different times, and as such I haven’t learned it nearly as well I should have. But the times I have used it have been for weird percussive layering and wall-of-sound ambient type stuff. Which, incidentally is exactly what I’m using Gauss for now haha. I don’t think the more cryptic interface and occasional bugs made me completely write it off. More like loving Gauss so much made me write it off. Only a bit though, I will still occasionally open it up and mess around, but 1/4 of the time it crashes on me.
It shouldn’t be crashing unless you are running heavy sessions or on older hardware.
Bulletproof on the M1 iPad Pro.
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I'm interested in using loopers to grab and loop the various channels of AUM. One instance crashing is perhaps manageable, but if they all start falling apart at different moments, well...
Will tentatively give ENSO a proper testing, and see how it performs.
Cheers
Like I said it doesn’t crash every time but I’ve definitely experienced a few crashes with it. And judging by what I’ve read online, I’m far from the only one.
If you’re into looping, I’d still recommend it. Overall it still performs pretty well and does a lot for the price. Cheers!
Thanks! Can't say I'm so into looping. But I can definitely see enough advantages, particularly on a mobile platform, to give it a go. As long as any crashes don't result in big amounts of lost work, I might be fine. Otherwise it'll be ditched...fast
Gonna be spending much more time offline over the coming months. And with my desktop computer being all but dead, I should have a lot more time for iOS experimentation.
Cheers
Sounds perfect then! Let me know how it goes for ya, I really do think it’s a killer app, despite only occasional glitches.