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.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Starting a random list of iPad factoids / Please add
I’ll start it off with this...
1.The iPad battery is designed to give 1000 full charges, after which the battery is performing at 80%.
- Turning off Notifications saves battery life.
What else?
Comments
A hard reboot often solves many examples of iPad wonkiness. To hard reboot current iPads: press volume up, then volume down, then press and hold the top button until the Apple logo appears.
iPads do not fit in normal pockets. iPhones do
Some plugins UIs being displayed can prevent CPU throttling from kicking in (and thus reduce crackles)
iPad Users don't get Wiki's
https://wiki.audiob.us
They prefer forum threads that grow quickly and are then buried deep in the forum database only to be re-called by a clever forum user that thinks the database must be an optimal data store.
Threads often become a cesspool of un-editable, irrelevant ponderings on mortality:
iPad have a secret menu that can be used to order pizza but only the developers (and product managers) know how to use it and the Pizza comes from Cupertino, CA.
iPad's do not have a dominant Wiki App for personal data organization so most iPad users tend to rely on forums to do research and berate app vendors.
Forum "Search" functions are shite compared to the genius that is Google
and the forum Search function uses Google. Go figure.
Supposedly flipping to airplane mode when charging speeds up the time it takes to charge.
While we are talking batteries...
If you have Apple care and you need to get your device repaired, check to see if your coverage covers full replacement of your iPad instead. Mine did (only reason I decided to pay for Apple care this time). When my screen broke, I had to call and specifically mention full replacement was covered and that I didn’t want to ship it for repairs (they removed the option from the drop downs online when you file a claim there).
I had a brand new iPad within 2 days and was able to keep using my old one with the broken screen while waiting. It came with prepaid shipping to send old one back within 10 days. The benefit of no downtime is key but the fact you also get a brand new iPad for your old one (and a brand new battery) is the real kicker. I’d had my pad for 9 months or so of heavy use and charging when this went down
The only caveat... they do clear the price of a full iPad through your bank or card before sending out the new pad. But once they receive the old one, this money is promptly returned.
Very happy with how it all worked out. Hell, I may even break my screen again tonight! 😂
iPads used to have headphone jacks ……
and people who have dedicated audio interfaces cry harder than people with just headphones.
They generally make musicians more sociable and willing to discuss politely and intelligently compared to their desktop counterparts.
See KVR Audio or Gearslutz for proof.
Truth! Perhaps not causal but the outcome is spot on!
What is Gearslutz?
Can’t call it that anymore apparently. It’s “gearspace”
Hold space bar to move cursor
On Home Screen. Hold the dots at bottom of screen that show your pages of apps to swipe pages faster.
Tap the top of the screen to scroll back to top of any website
Oooh, didn't know that last one -- very useful. I've wasted so much scrolling effort not knowing this.
Also hold and drag on the scrollbar for faster scrolling
Now we’re talkin’.
Sure. The battery is like a big bucket.
Charging adds water to the top.
On the bottom there are pipes to:
1. CPU
2. Display
3. Wi-Fi chip
4. Bluetooth Chip
So with all 4 ON you are actively draining the bucket while you add water to the top.
Filling to the top might take say 2 hours.
Airplane mode turns off PIPES 3,4 (the 2 network chips)
Turn of the display too and only check after the time you think it will take to charge 10 100%.
Not draining to pipes 2, 3, 4 will the bucket in the shortest time. It's about 1hour with all pipes on for my latest iPhone which came with an 18W charger.
That W stands for "Watts"
Watts = Volts x current
Volts is always 5 Volts
Current varies between the older chargers at 5 Watts and the "Power Delivery" chargers at 18 Watts
So, 5 Watt charger sends 1 amp of electrons into the battery at a time.
An 18 Watt charger sends 3.6 amps of electrons and speed the filling of the bucket.
Apple states that the 18W charger fills the battery to 50% in 30 minutes.
The 5 Watt should do the same job in 3.6 x 30 minutes = 108 minutes = 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Using Airplane mode helps fill it as fast as possible since you are not running all the motors while filling the bucket.
When at a gig, announce how much you care for others by using your ipad as a video camera and recording every second from your vantage point at the front of the crowd.
Serious question: If I have never stopped charging my ipad from the moment I got it due to it being constantly plugged in, is this just one charge or do 1000 charges have a time equivalent?
You should NEVER put your wet electrical device in rice to aid evaporation. Ask why if dusty rice is NOT and obvious issue. Are you trying to save the water? Evaporation happens in the absence of rice? Did you new iPad arrive with a rice packet?
Water... if 100% pure... cannot conduct electricity and short out the chips. Pond water is not pure... bye-bye iphone. When the water dies a nice residue of fish waste wad left on the chips and connectors. My best hope was... turn the phone off... rinse it with pure non-electrolyte water with minerals like salts and give it enough time to dry and then turn it on. No good the time on in the pond killed it. And I didn’t save any of the water in rice.
Now the one I dropped in the toilet... I saved. It was before I added impurities to the water so the odds were better.
While I waited I cleaned and out the SIM card in an old phone but it was hell waiting. Better to buy a new phone with a new SIM and test the ok’d water danaged(?) phone for resale or iPod use after the required 2 weeks baring a vacuum chamber to aid evaporation.
Eat the rice with fish.
Spare the phone extra dust.
In fact blowing air through the connector ports might make your audio stop crackling in some odd cases of excess pocket lint.
Love your phone and it will still accept Spam calls from scammers.
But love it fir the good it can do and avoid the evil.
Sorry for iphone typos... I’ll edit later on my Mac.
This thread will have some good stuff to move to the wiki... either way few will ever read it again unless it lived here growing in size with a mix of fact and fictions.
Do iPhone cause brain tumors or is it just bad luck? Are brain tumors OK for some genres?
discuss.
Is a threaded discussion a list to a real programmer and can it ever be truly random?
Google for clues. Stack overflow is a technical event in a program similar to blowing your stack... mayhem ensues.
Are answers Friday m programmers helpful for most artists or do they seem foreign and most likely alien?
@McD, I thought fish was brain food. I suggest you try haiku for the next week. 17 syllables is all you get. But you could write fifty at a time. The Japanese eat a lot of fish. Thus their brains created an early form of Twitter and they’re more careful with their phones.
It’s an obvious one, but set your brightness to 50% to save your battery (and screen life?).
I ‘m mixing my art forms in this piece I call
“Dada Haiku”
da da da da da da da
da da da da
da da da da da da
It could make a good art song for a professional (guitar slinging) Basso Rotundo.
What are the odds a Bass Singer would read this and add the required melody (pentatonic cliches?) and post the work as a pastiche of 12 Tone low art?
Or in the humorist vein of PDQ Bach (Peter Schickele).
Such sub lime nun sense.
Ummm... @McD... haiku must relate to a season... you could stretch that to a seasoning...
Pep ah, pep ah pep ahhh... and so on... sew on, McD.
“Change the rules. I poured myself into the challenge. It is summer soon.”
17 syllables I think. If not fix it and provide shared credit. It’s poord and not poor Ed. Either reading works with or with out soon.
Dada Haiku #2
Fall.
Zürich, Switzerland
Cabaret Voltaire.
Duchamp saw anti-art.
It also makes a nice Dada telegram.
Fall - stop.
Zürich, Switzerland - stop
Cabaret Voltaire- stop
Duchamp recoiled in disgust - full stop.
It’s how many times it uses 100% of it capacity ( at once or in intervals)
100 to 0 to 100 is 1 cycle.
100 to 50 back to 100 back to 50 and back to 100 is 1 charge cycle (50% used twice = 100)
100 to 75 to 100 four times is 1 charge cycle.
Leaving it plugged in 24/7 forever is bad for batteries. They’re like muscles and do need exercise. Otherwise they atrophy.
It’s about time - I always thought that was a terrible name. I haven’t been there in forever due to the large number of sociopaths that frequent it.
iPads have two sides, one made of metal and one made of glass. I forget which is the right one to use, but if you find your iPad is unresponsive, try flipping it over to see if the other side works better.
The iPad is the only tablet where the manufacturer cared about music so much they give you a well thought out (and free) app strictly for making music. For many years, it came pre-installed on every device said company made.
If someone walks up to you and starts poking the iPad... you're delivering a public kiosk service. Be warned some users may slip a dollar in your waistband. You generate cash flow
but never enough to afford a new iPad. But I'm sure you've heard about the cup of coffee analogies... reverse the flow on that narrative.