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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I have always used Windows desktops for my music creations, and still do every so often in order to justify all the money I’ve invested in that area. Like you though, I would always spend most of my time tinkering, troubleshooting, or just looking at or trying out every new VST that I can find (or afford!).
I had a brief courtship with iPad music making back when GarageBand for iOS first came out, I remember thinking at the time how amazing it would be to have everything on the iPad and available to the touch. There wasn’t much available at the time, so I lost interest for a few years and didn’t really start getting back into it until the pandemic.
Yup, it was a little over a year ago; I had this little light bulb come on in my head and thought “I’m gonna go buy an iPad Pro!” And ever since, it’s really opened up my whole creative music making world!
Having new things to learn, I became accustomed to visiting these forums on the frequent, and in turn, in just over one year, have learned more about music, music making, and music theory than I ever have in 35+ years of music making! That’s pretty remarkable if you ask me!
I’m getting to an age where sitting at a desk to make music starts to hurt almost immediately. I become very fatigued and cannot be creative like that at all. (It more than likely has a lot to do with my cheap office chair, but that’s a topic for another time;)) The iPad eliminates all of my pain! I can stretch out on the couch comfortably and compose for hours like this. So that’s really the main draw for me, that and the fact that the apps and instruments available now are such high quality.
Having both is the way to go, but I’ve found myself not really missing anything nowadays.
‘There is an app for that’, just might threaten those desktop DAWs.. the way things are developing in iOS land..
I used Cubase and desktop back in 2001 when recordning and making songs for our rockband. Thats were i started, then I was out of musicmaking until 2019. I discovered on my ipad garageband and opened it, this was fun, I started to research what you can do just with the ipad. Its fantastic but after a while I felt a bit limited.
, My ipad (and iphone) is my sketchbox. Then I turn to my computer to sounddesign and finnish tracks of. So I use both, why not use both if u have the possibility. I like just taking up my phone and fast making some beats in groovebox sending out midi och wave to ableton (i have the cheap ableton also, i would like to get the midi straight out to bitwig,but it looks like ableton is the only way right now) then to bitwig starting to chop up things and sounddesign, maybe i connect my ipad and aum and record (both midi and sound) from aum and use the keyboard etc getting more sounds, using my ipad then as a controller.
I bought a macbook and now I use Bitwig on desktop, and i use zenbeats, garageband och aum on my ipad (and everything else
I was feeling limited with just the ipad, but with both the ipad and desktop i think its perfect.
I use them both desktop and ios at the same time. Mostly desktop but I am creating my ideas on Nano Studio 2. Then I turn that ideas into reality in desktop daw(Studio One Pro). It's simpler to create melody ideas on IOS and you can do this everywhere.
I went from hardware directly to iPad. I skipped desktop/laptop primarily because of space; the keyboard always got in the way of some synth or two, or I just couldn't find a place to put it that wasn't just off to the side.
I think the drum options in GarageBand are the best for my needs. Whilst I’m not sure I could carry an entire track with manual drumming, you’ve given me the idea of combining Drummer with some manual drums to customise things. That could work - thanks!
It’s the way I’ve been making my drum tracks for decades. Automate the boring stuff, but add punctuation when and where it’s needed manually.
Using drummer for the main groove, adding some swing then playing un-quantized percs is where it's at. I love topping it off with some post processing from KoalaFX for distortion.