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.
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Loopy Pro: FIRST LOOK
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You need to start playing before the rec is pressed and then play through after the rec is off. That way you’re more likely to get a seamless loop
You’re not expecting it ‘very soon’ then? 😀
True, but the new loop detector in Pro allows for gaps at the beginning and end of your first loop, at least. It’s pretty forgiving to get things started. After that you’d have to play all the way through each loop as you assert.
Ha, you see, that’s loopy hd knowledge getting in the way again!
Or, y'know, just good looping technique in general. I'm interested to see how well the loop detection in Loopy Pro works, but if you're serious about looping as a part of your style, it's worth your while to invest some time in developing your technique without the benefit of the automated assist, IMO.
+1
I have found that practicing making loops in real-time with loopy or group the loop or the Drambo looper I hacked together (with help from others) has benefited my playing a lot.
The anticipation is killing me harder than baseball does, I’m so hyped for this beta
Yep, agreed that at some point one has to become an accomplished looper in order to get good results. That said, I am an experienced looper but I still use the new loop detection for that quick, down/dirty starting point to capture tempo etc when I am just noodling on something. I love pulling out my phone when I'm out and about and simply capturing an idea by singing into my iPhone. Can then take that and start building on it on my phone or iPad. It works perfectly!
I can make perfect loops with a guitar and a foot pedal, but as soon as I have to use my hands it all goes to hell.
Yea, beta me, please
Lol.
Which brings me to… any affordable and decent solutions for loopy foot control?. There’s a few good threads like this one, where there’s some great DIY ideas. I’d love to have one in place when Loopy Pro arrives.
Define "affordable."
A Blueboard or two
And yes, I wish the switches had better touch feedback but I find mine reliable and battery consumption is low and the ports for expression/sustain pedals are great.
This is probably too good…
I’d settle with this
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Look at "Pedalino mini" github project (https://github.com/alf45tar/PedalinoMini) - the best DIY wireless midi controller
hahaha, I better start learning the original I have before attempting this one - soooo deep! Never really got the idea of looping though tbh - I sorta thought it was the domain of guitarists
I'm gonna have to be That Old Guy What Does the History again, aren't I?
hahaha!
Hi. I assume that loopy pro will be capable of importing ready-made samples and loops, could someone familiar with its features confirm it? I'm interested in most of its functionality BUT live-looping if say true, although it might be useful for transitions if you can resample the main output...but if it can load loops made somewhere else, slice them, manipulate and play them back in some interesting ways that(and midi loops) would make it a solution for ableton style live performing...Thanks!
The question of import has been answered many times in the thread. The answer is yes.
Slicing? That's another question. I'm not sure on that one.
Koala Sampler could be right up your alley here.
Not even close to what i have in mind))
It's in the video:
What will the export options be?
Loopy Pro does not yet slice like a typical Koala/BM3 sampler app (although there’s a section where you can see the loop/sample and manipulate the “canvas “). That slicer widget thingamajig is super cool but it’s still not a Koala/BM3 type slicer. I’m eager to see where Michael takes sampling though because his approach may take it closer to Simpler territory than the others.
@celtic_elk said:
I would be interested in reading such a piece.
I’m sure that there are more extensive histories of looping online, written by better-informed people, but here’s my condensed version:
Looping has been around as a compositional technique since at least the 1950s, used by people like Stockhausen and Reich, and was in use as a live-performance technique by the mid-60s, picking up steam when Terry Riley and Robert Fripp started to do it. For the first few decades of looping, you had to set your loop length in advance, either using a tape loop of a fixed length, or using an electronic delay with a set delay time (the Lexicon PCM 42 and the TC Electronics TC 2290 were rack delays frequently used for this purpose; the EHX 16-second Delay and the Digitech PDS series did basically the same thing in a pedal form). It’s hard to accurately capture a rhythmic figure perfectly with such a setup, so the music made with this technique tended towards arrhythmic, if not "ambient," forms. (iOS musicians who’ve used Gauss, which is an explicit callback to old-school tape looping, have a sense of how this works.)
Punch-style, or "phrase sampling," loopers, where you could determine loop length on the fly by pressing a switch at the beginning and end of your loop, started to appear with the original rackmount Lexicon JamMan in ‘94 and the first Boomerang Phrase Sampler pedal in ‘96, but didn’t really start to take off until Line 6 included a model of the Boomerang in its DL-4 delay modeler pedal, released in 1999, which was maybe the first really popular multi-algorithm delay pedal. The DL-4 was cheap, it was ubiquitous - you could find it in most local musical instrument stores - and it did things besides looping, which meant that a lot of people who might not have sprung for a stand-alone looper incidentally had one to experiment with. This was the point at which high-profile artists like Radiohead start using looping overtly in performance and recording, and guys like Keller Williams started to build careers on looping "one-man-band" performances. This created a market for small, easy-to-use phrase loopers, which the major pedal manufacturers were happy to fill (Boss, EHX, Digitech, TC). There were more complex live loopers as well, but they never caught on massively in the same way - Gibson stopped making the rackmount Echoplex Digital Pro, arguably the most feature-packed hardware looper ever built, in 2003 or so; the rackmount Electrix Repeater never really took off; and Boomerang was in and out of production with the multi-loop Boomerang III pedal over the years. (There were other niche devices as well, and some players turned to software solutions, but I’m trying to keep this short.)
Thanks to the Internet, a dedicated looping community has been building up over the years, and it’s become visible enough that a few boutique hardware builders have decided to experiment with making more complex hardware loopers. A couple of them have built on and even extended the Echoplex Digital Pro feature set, notably the Glou-Glou Loupé and the looping module in the Poly Beebo. Others have taken more idiosyncratic approaches, like the recent Chase Bliss pedals, or the various "micro-loopers" like the Hexe Revolver that work on pretty short looping times for glitch and stutter effects. The last three years or so have seen more innovation in the hardware looping space than in the prior couple of decades, which is pretty exciting.
Here endeth the lesson. 😄
Addendum: for a master class in old-school delay looping, check out this David Torn instructional video, filmed in 1995 or thereabouts. That PCM 42 that Torn’s using is still a mainstay of his rig - in fact, it’s probably the only piece of equipment from that time that’s still part of it, though his basic approach of guitar -> pedals -> amp -> mixer -> looper (and other effects) has stayed consistent.
I believe this KT Tunstall performance was instrumental (pun intended) in bringing looping to the mainstream in the UK. I remember lots of people talking about this performance as if it was some sort of magic.
(snip)
Imogen Heap looped her way through this tune back in 2007. (Ah, the days of 240p resolution. lol)