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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Options are great but productive creativity lies in working within a set of limitations. I typically set an tool-set limit for myself whenever I pick up my iPad. I say, "I'm gonna see what I can do using only apps A, B, C, and D."
That's a pretty good idear there @UglyKidMoe and then I suppose if during your work you said to yourself you needed a particular app for a particular sequence or effect then you good jump to it if need be. That's a pretty good rule to set for yourself....sometimes too many options when trying to accomplish a goal can be distracting. Don't get me wrong I love the flexibility that AB has brought to the table
I limited myself by getting a 16gb iPad...
iʻm actually the opposite. iʻm finding audiobus is helping my music output a whole lot more. those times where iʻm just sitting around doing nothing are now filled with laying down some tracks in cubasis via audiobus. the laptop is now a dust magnet.
I'd say I spend 90% of my production time just experimenting. I make ambient tracks, and I spend hours sampling movies and music and manipulating the samples with iDensity, iPulsaret and Grain Science.
The other 10% is spent compiling the final samples into BeatMaker 2 and actually building tracks.
@dwarman, just jumping in here, but you can do a session record in Loopy that will capture your journey building it up (or down). It's the Record button at the top of the slide-out menu. Now returning to your regular programming......
I'm just waiting for that one last synth to get on the bus. Then I'll start making music..
I've been doing diddly squat for a month, then I got a 128gig iPad 4 .. Lately I've created about 10 large projects that I've been going back and diddling over and over with audiobus into auria.. I'm currently uploading them to my soundcloud.. This is directed at the guy who limited himself with his 16gb iPad.. Seems as I increased space I was able go back to a quick doodle and turn it into a track.. so it could work both ways with nearly the same effort as just messing around I'm ending up with huge projects to clean up / edit and mix down as songs..
@JMSexton thanks. i actually began doing so about 4 years ago after watching a Allesandro Cortini video in which he talked about why he loved modular so much. He said (and I'm paraphrasing) that it's a challenge and a joy to look at a modular box and see every tool you have to work with. Even though there are limitless possibilities, you have to say at some point, "okay, I'm going to use this module to control the filter, and this module to control the Pitch, etc. etc." It was at that moment that I realized a lot of my "writer's block" was actually "option paralysis" - the state of having more options than the mind can feasibly process at any given moment, therefore leaving you frozen with no way to make a decision. And when you boil it right down, music making (along with everything we do in life) is just a series of decisions.
No decisions, no music.
@Hmtx I copy all 12 Loops at one time, & then paste all 12 loops into Auria, since audiocopy can hold 12 copy files at once, this makes the process that much faster, (if I need more tracks) I can open the iPhone app version of loopy & undock the loopyHD from Audiobus but keep them synced, or just simply just bounce the tracks, & build it up that way, either way I finally mix it in Auria for that professional sounding finish, Arranging it Auria can be cumbersome tho, but the beauty of all this is that you can put it down & pick it up & finish it in an instant! Beatmaker 2 is a great block arranger, but in terms of workflow, there is a lot of pages & menus that get in the way of navigation. So here it is 1.) Produce in Loopy, 2.) Arrange in Beatmaker2/Auria 3.) Mix in Auria
Ps don't forget to freeze tracks & use/save your presets, all the fabfilter plugs are Topnotch! Don't hesitate if you have Ipad 3 or 4
Forgive me gor diving right in as a newbie, but... We need a contest.
I do visual/commercial creative work by day. It's really easy to spend a lot of time noodling, but two things can really motivate me: a client up my butt and a competition.
Maybe if somebody set up a monthly show/friendly competition with a deadline, it would motivate people to quit fiddling and lock some sound down. Or a monthly community compilation released on Bandcamp or something like that ( these things could already exist here, sorry if they do.)
A contest or compilation would be cool. Deadlines tend to make people more productive.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
Sounds good to me
I find working with all the DAWs on iPad to be a very unsatisfying experience, so a couple of weeks back I exported all the loops and doodles from my iPad to my Laptop, and have spent the last few weeks utilising these in ableton to build tracks. In all the excitement of iOS and audiobus I'd forgotten how much I love ableton.
Abletoo for ipad could be like the Cubase/fruitloops model, start on ipad finish in Ableton.
Could be a winner.
Agreed, @DaveMagoo. It seems like such an obvious thing to do, I wonder if the devs are working on it?
A lot of Abletons built in instruments and FX seem pretty lightweight on the processor also...I'll keep my fingers crossed....it would be awesome to utilise the clip launch functionality on ipad.
Felt for a while that LoopyHD could be poised to be the starting code of an ableton style clip recorder/launcher. 8x8 matrix style or some such. I'd drop 20 bucks on it without flinching!
This could be the answer....
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/03/01/launchpad-for-ipad-review-demo/comment-page-1/
Plays like Ableton and its free.....no import functionality yet but this would be a killer with Audiobus as all loops can be globally adjusted to whatever tempo you require and clip launch is literally as close as i have seen to Ableton on iPad.
So much potential this one.....
yeah, if it had import or better yet record (let's be honest - copy and pasting still sucks) it'd be dreamy. I picked it up since it's free, just in case they add useful features in the future and start charging for it!
@syrupcore i totally agree with you, launchpad NEEDS audiobus by design since it was released i dream myself using loopy and launchpad both at the same time.... OVERKIL \m/