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.
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Thanks for the update… constant improvements!
Really enjoying this DAW! I don't know why people were waiting for Logic 😅
Is there a way to send the MIDI of one track to another? Like for layering instruments playing the same note? I couldn't find it. Thanks!
@jsmonzani
You can’t (yet) route midi between tracks on AEMS. If you go to https://www.extreamsd.com/forum and look under ‘Feature requests / suggestions’ it’s on the list. Feel free to join in and add a +1 in the comments under the suggestion! That’d be most appreciated.
In the meantime, for AUM-style routing, you’re kind of stuck with AUM. You can send IAA outputs from AUM to AEMS [open AEMS, create new audio track, set track input [final option in channel strip] to ‘Kymatica: AUM (Port 1) (IAA)]. {Sorry about all the brackets!}
AUM should then load and open, and you can select IAA output 1…
Of course, AUM won’t sync to AEMS, that’d be too easy. After you load AEMS, then AUM, finally load AudioBus in the background.
Select a single speaker output for an otherwise empty AB channel, leave it running in background and return to AUM, where you can press play or record on the AEMS output icon and you should get what you want onto the timeline. (Expect a small amount of trimming and moving clips…)
Useful info here: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/51073/midi-link-sync-alternatives
Don’t forget to record-arm your AEMS tracks… And if it doesn’t work at all, turn iphone/pad off and on again, then try again. Oh, and you may have to adjust buffer settings across all apps to reduce crackles.
Disclaimers: this method is not 100% stable. It may also make your brain melt and seriously impair any social relationships you may have. Other methods are available but they suck and fail too.
Damn I really want AUM-like routing in AEMS too!
Thank you for your detailed answer!! I'm gonna promote this feature on their forum as well!
I've found an easy solution to my problem: you can send MIDI out from MIDI tracks but not from MIDI instrument tracks, that's all. Here's how to do it:
It's a method I've used in the past with Drambo
Nice spot! I suppose the AUM way you get to sync lumbeat drummers too, which I like to use. And in general prefer the ease of routing in AUM.
Oh sure, AUM is awesome for routing! By the way you can use AUM's midi ports the same way than StreamByter in my example. For instance, send midi from AEM to AUM, go crazy there and then back to AEM. Honestly though, the 3 midi FX provided by AEM are already pretty cool! 👍
Hmm, au midi drambo not synced to playhead stop-start in midi tracks on iphone… works ok on midi instrument tracks.
Anyone know if it is possible, on iphone, to adjust zoom gesture so that it doesn’t switch direction as your finger and thumb cross over?
At the moment, i start with finger and thumb open, and pinch together to zoom in. As my finger and thumb pass, the zoom reverses… I don’t want this, I want more zoom in the original specified direction. Is this possible to do from settings?
@dwrae?
Edit: I suppose it would be nice if the zoom followed a curve, like so: fingers apart, small adjustment, crossover fingers, big adjustments. Also, would be nice to be able to drag whilst zooming to adjust position on the timeline, instead of having to make seperare gestures (first zoom, then seek position).
Loopy Pro syncs with AEMS, duh. Use visual swift TX/RX AUs in FX chains to send audio from Loopy to AEMS. Works well one track at a time. Bit crackly on more than one track at a time on iphone.
LP routing with AEMS multitrack recorder and FX grid, nice.
Is there some particular reason to do that rather than to simply export tracks from Loopy Pro? By the time you deal with setup and deal with latency, it might be faster to just export. In fact, you can copy clips to the clipboard and paste them directly into the AEM timeline without even going through the files app.
BTW, there's also the LoopBack plugin from KQ Voice Suite that can do the same as visual swift TX/RX. It might be more efficient (or not).
I don’t have a fix @Kewe_Esse but you made me understand better my zooming issues.
@dwrae :
In piano roll as opposed to track view, you can’t pinch to zoom in and out and scroll with the same gesture. Usually in apps, when you pinch to zoom in and then slide both fingers left or right, this motion is interpreted as scroll. In AEM, switching from pinch to scroll in piano roll requires to stop pinching, raise your fingers and then drag to scroll. Could this be improved?
Also a button to “zoom out to show all the notes” would be appreciated
Finally, the virtual keyboard also zooms strangely: pinch to change the key width seems to me to zoom out when I want to zoom in and vice versa. Similarly to piano roll, you can’t pinch and scroll too.
Thanks!!
I suppose the reason would be to get at the jam/playground environment of LP, where I can route drums, synths etc together then record to AEMS timeline without creating any intermediary Loopy loops. Can then hit stop in LP and AEMS keeps recording, so captures any interesting FX tails straight to AEMS timeline, too.
Having said that, clip copy/paste totally works, oops. Completely missed the obvious there! Thanks.
Have not heard of LoopBack plugin. Was wondering about alternatives as VS not in appstore any more, so thanks for that, too.
What device are you on? On iphone I can’t zoom and scroll with same gesture in either arranger view or piano roll. Haven’t tried on ipad.
I'm on ipad. I've just tested the arranger view again, I can actually only slightly scroll so maybe it isn't much better than the piano roll view.
Hmm yeah. I do wish the navigation was a bit smoother.
On ipad normally have it resting on my lap on on table, both hands able to interact with screen. When using iphone, normally holding device with both hands so… if only there was some other way to zoom. Scrolling less of a pain cos only 1 finger required.
Something like ‘long press with thumb in scroll bar’ on rhs of screen or something to trigger zoom mode, then sorta up/right to zoom in and down/left to zoom out… then release and tap’n’drag again to re-enter scroll mode… or something like that. Releasing one hand just to zoom is a (very, very minor) pain.
Basically though, having this multitrack recorder with fx grid is wicked. Have some more editing coming up so will play about with the split button behaviour soon.
Audio Evolution Mobile Studio 5.9.2 released:
Sorry it took so long, I'm still stuck in another project.
I never clocked this post, but did get the update. Thanks for the continued support.
Audio Evolution Mobile Studio 5.9.9 released:
Does AEM have mix busses and a tempo track?
Do you mean, is AEM not Cubasis 3?
(apologies, if I knew the answer I would tell you).
Looking at what's in the latest update a couple of posts above would make me inclined to think that it does at least have a tempo and time signature track.
🤫 😂
I’ll always love Cubasis but would be nice to have a DAW with tempo track for the times I need it. I’ve used a lot of the DAWs on iOS and nothing can come close to the workflow of C3 for me. Hope it’ll get those things eventually though.
Yes and yes.
@dwrae Thank you for such a great DAW. I’m not all in yet, I’m slowly but surely picking up the soundfonts. There are some really good DAWs for iPadOS and iOS and something about yours makes it the easiest for me to work with. The steady updates are very much appreciated. Have a great holiday!
Thank you 🙏
Folks, I have a problem with 'FX sends.' When I create a bus and assign an effect to it, let's say reverb, then I want to use this effect on other tracks by adjusting the 'send level', I don't hear any difference when I move it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Can someone check this issue, but preferably on a project with multiple tracks?
The "sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't" makes it hard to look into. It would be great if you can pinpoint the situation where it doesn't work, like for example directly after loading a project. Please also see if the send value in the FX Send block in the FX grid has the same value as you see on the slider on the mixer channel.
@dwrae I played with it a bit longer, and decided to record a video to illustrate the problem. I also might be doing the whole thing wrong way?
No, looks like a bug. Please press the fx grid button for the track it didn't work on and then select the FX Send block. Does changing the send value there work?
No, it doesn’t make a difference.
I finally found it. It only happens when you press Solo. For some reason, Group 2 gets muted when you press Solo. If you deactivate solo, it should work. I'll check it out further.