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A bit on the pricey side me thinks
Love it!
I'm waiting...
🤓 me too
It's delayed not available until February ./ It would be nice to see what you come up to with it.
What will you use it with?
In the meantime I have my Linnstrument 😎
So I wrote up a whole rant about this thing, and then I noticed the "plans" for an internal synth and an audio output jack in the specifications page. Which changes things. Less wires. Less set up. Less fucking around with incongruent MPE settings. More playing. That would make something like this fairly unique, instead of just another one of the dozens of wooden Kickstarter boutique isomorphic MPE boards that are abandoned as soon as they're released. But an internal synth? Ok, that's pretty neat. Even if there's no screen. But wait, there's an asterisk by those "plans", which states they are not in the current version and are meant to be added during Kickstarter production. Uh oh, that's a very Kickstarter promise. Not good, but let's check out the news section to see how the additions have been going, maybe there's good news....
Uh oh!
"Previously I worked on the original Striso with an internal synthesizer and speaker, but due to technical complexity I’ve chosen to focus on the development of the Striso board. The Striso board features the same keyboard and motion sensitivity as the original Striso, but needs to be connected to an external synthesizer and speaker. For the best experience a low latency MPE synthesizer is advised. For an optimal out-of-the-box playing experience I offer an Axoloti synthesizer as a package with the Striso board, in a matching wooden case and preloaded with some Striso optimized sounds."
Now this is the Kickstarter I know and love.
"Prices (excluding shipping costs):
The Axotoli is about €65 by itself. So the matching wooden case comes in at € 56.
So......why is this guy still advertising an asterisked plan to have an internal synth and audio jack on the main spec page when he's just planning on charging an extra €121 euros to give you an Axotoli synth and wooden case on the side??? Can somebody please just tell me his website is outdated and the internal synth is alive and well in the final version? And if so, what internal synth is he using?
In light of this,,, back to my regularly scheduled original rant:
That's a lot of money for what seems to be like an inferior product in an over saturated market with very few customers. This could possibly fit a niche at 100-200$, which is what it appears to be worth just at first glance. But I'd be super cautious about getting this either way. I'd be less cautious about buying an instrument in a moldy sex dungeon basement off Craigslist than off a Kickstarter project. An instrument becomes a part of you, and Kickstarter is no place to be looking for a third arm or new heart (that's Gofundme). It's like asking Solar Roadways to fill all the potholes in Michigan. 99% chance they're just not gonna pull through. There's so many of these boutique little wooden MPE boards that cost half a grand to several grand, they come out all the time, all with some 'brand new' way to arrange and play notes isomorphically, meaning you have to relearn everything, only to be abandoned within a few years. Only a few hundred are ever made and there's not really too much support for them once the initial roll out. The internal synth is apparently already abandoned. How much R&D was spent on quality control for these things? How many presses are those jello keys rated for? Will this last me 5, 10, 20 years down the road? It better for $500. This has an incredibly limited range of notes and they're smashed together into a square. How would you play chords and melody lines together? The Striso box seems to be a much better solution, but they don't appear to be selling it. The keys appear to be made out of jello which isn't great for fast action playablity. Which is why Roger Linn decided against soft keys for his keyboard, and is the major bit of criticism I see for the Seaboard. And I'm gonna guess the jello keys won't stand the test of time that a real instrument should be able to pass. This would be $500 not spent on the Osmose by Expressive E, who seem to be designing their instrument to last 100 years. Hard pass.
@despego At the risk of sounding mean spirited, I'll attempt to make what's meant to come off as mostly a light hearted joke: If you've got a Linnstrument, that's like saying "in the meantime I have my Testarossa when you're comparing your car to a rusty tricycle at a car show". Only thing that could possibly top the Linnstrument is the Osmose. In large part due to the internal synth. Which is none other than the mother fucking EaganMatrix
@sclurbs I really love your straightforward way of expressing yourself.
There is a lot of what you write that should be better addressed to the developer if what you want is answers.
For my part, I love driving my Testarossa but I have no problems riding a tricycle from time to time. So why did I bake this project and why am I so excited about it?
Not for the built in synth (or lack of it). I have plenty of sound sources at disposal and I'm not interested in the Axoloti. The isomorphic layout got my attention from the start. A new layout to learn, you are right, but I have enough (not much, but enough) experience with isomorphic layouts to know that I can learn it. New layout means also new paths for the music in my fingers. I had actually thought to keep on developing my skills with my left hand on the Linnstrument (old bass player) and practice with the right on the Striso, not in order to play two handed but just to allow for different means of expression.
You mention fast action playability on the Linnstrument. That is its strength. With the Striso I had imagined new harmonies/voicings, playing at a slower pace and so on. Also I was hoping actually for a surface softer than the Linnstrument's (some have pledge Roger Linn for a slightly thicker silicon surface without luck) for... well, a softer way of playing?
In terms of built quality, well, I really don't know. It could be as you say, the project is abandoned at one point, or the buttons are crap. I guess that is the risk I take. I know that Pier has changed things around in order to meet his quality expectations.
The money. At the moment I had it and thought it would be a good idea to support this guy. I still do.
I could get the Osmose. It seems like they are going to nail it with that one. Yes, the mother fucking EaganMatrix is mother fucking great, man. I even thought buying a ContinuumMini just for the synth (after begging in vain for a stand-alone box for the Linnstrument) but connectivity is not straightforward so what the... and then there is the keyboard layout, which I'm never going to feel at home with. I just simply can't see the notes on a keyboard.
So I will stick with the Linn (can you believe I sold it? I can't, so I quickly sold my sea kayak to buy a new one!!) and will happily fool around the accordion-like "tricycle" hoping the best of it and wishing the best to its creator.
Hi all,
Piers here, finally I signed up for this forum, that was on my list for a while.
@sclurbs, Thanks for the extensive analysis, I enjoyed reading it. I also do agree with many points you're making. From the delight of not having cables to the build quality of instruments.
I'll try to shed some light on your points:
The internal synth is the synth I wrote for the battery powered standalone Striso box I made earlier. It can't compete with the possibilities of the EaganMatrix (I did buy a ContinuuMini mainly for the synth), but it's a versatile sound with the base idea that no set up is required - there's no settings apart from sensitivity and tuning - and the ability to play different sounds completely comes from playing the buttons in different ways, combined with the instrument motion.
I must confess I'm not completely satisfied with the internal synth yet, and probably won't be until it outperforms the EaganMatrix. It's meant as a good start to get going immediately without external synth, and to feel what kind of things are possible, and hopefully I'll be able to perfect it some day (with a firmware upgrade).
The durability of the buttons is concern more people have mentioned. I'm very confident myself about the button quality. Silicone rubber is a very resistant material. I've been using home-cast buttons for 6 years, and they don't show signs of deterioration, and I expect the professionally cast silicone to be way more durable. The buttons are solid, there's no coating that can come off, and they survive my children
. However, designing a product that will last for 100 years with materials that didn't exist 100 years ago is quite a challenge, and with the Striso board I'm afraid the electronics will be the first parts to die, but whether that will be in 10 or 100 years is hard to say.
That deal with the Axoloti is from an old post from 2019, I just clarified in that post it is no longer valid.
Then there's the risk of the project being abandoned. I can only say I have been working on this for over 10 years and don't plan to stop, even if it doesn't make a profit. It started as a hobby project and I've had some breaks, but always came back to it. I do plan to make more variations with the same keyboard, like the box version. This year I've been working full time on it, which felt great. For the long term instrument future however, I think there should be more people building the same instruments. Like the Hang being only available from PanArt in limited quantities was an issue, but nowadays there are many handpan manufacturers around. I also like to see how the Monome is built as a quality instrument, but anyone can built their own version too.
I'll leave the more ranty parts for what they are
@despego @cazel Thanks for your support, I'm very curious to see what ways you and other backers will use the Striso board.
One more note about playing fast action: I believe the limitation there is more in the sensitivity and scan rate than the material, which on the Striso board are both good enough for fast action.
The only way to really know how it feels is to try of course, so I'm looking forward to send you your Striso board in February!
Nice to have you here @pierstitus. I'm looking forward the Striso and really hoping it goes well for you.
Regarding the fast playing, one thing is for sure: practice!
Definitely, with atmospheric sounds you have time to react to what the sound does, with fast notes you have to have it in your fingers.