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.
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Can anyone confirm whether Nembrini noise gate shows up for them?
Michael is very active in the Slack channel responding to issues and feedback, so if you want a conversation about things it's probably the best place at the moment.
I registered there. Strange place but I'll use it from now on.
Thanks! Just saw the notification. I'm in the waning hours of submitting my PhD thesis, so not quite free enough just yet anyway! If I used a word like "obstreperousness" my supervisor would circle it and mock me. ;-)
Never mind. They just released an update that should fix it.
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Hey, I signed up for the beta on the site weeks ago, never got any prompt for a beta invite. Was that sign up form not actually used?
You should have gotten an email if you signed up. However, the beta filled up within minutes of the email, so even if you did see it you probably wouldn't have ended up getting in on this round. Michael didn't see that one coming. He needs to keep it from being completely open so that he can keep up with the tons of feedback and do a good job.
@skiphunt : if you had signed up and didn’t see the invite link when it was sent out, it’s probable that a spam filter caught it.
@wim @espiegel123 it's just as well. I'm not doing much beta testing lately. I tend to get obsessed with whatever I'm testing and end up spending much more time on it than I'd planned. Although, I would have loved to have made the exception for Loopy Pro. Looks really cool.
Hi. Could I ask people testing if this looks like it could become the ios daw? Ive used auria but in truth it’s a bit of a mess and nothing feels built for iOS. I’d love a Simole to use but really full featured daw
Good question. I’m also interested in the extent of the editing features of the timeline.
I’m not sure I get the question as there are several capable traditional DAWs on iOS. I like cubasis just fine and BM3 is great if you do a fair bit of sampling. Loopy Pro has some DAW-like features but it doesn’t feel like it is trying to be a DAW. It feels to me like a live performance dream kit. If you can conjure a live use case it can prolly do it. Others may use it as a simple DAW but it doesn’t feel like the primary use case to me. My two cents.
I think DAW will mean different things to different people. The Wiki definition is ‘ an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files’ - which Loopy Pro undoubtedly is, however I think many people will take DAW to mean a complete music production suite with a pile of instruments, sampling, effects and the use of third party add ons and all the rest of it - including midi sequencing which Loopy Pro doesn’t do.
Anyway my curiosity is that of Ableton style arrangements from the recorded audio. I’m a big fan of Samplebot - and I know that there is a similarity there in appearance certainly with the Loopy Pro timeline arrangement. I also know that Michael has previously referred to it himself as being relatively basic.
How much more sophisticated is it in terms of editing/workflow etc? Any thoughts?
currently the timeline is very simple. And its not really the same as a daw timeline per se, because it is more so a timeline for when loops should playback/record. Its not like a daw track where you can just record audio onto the timeline. Each track corresponds to a loop.
Im pretty sure he said there are plans to add true audio tracks, midi tracks, automation tracks, and other editing things in the future
Loopy Pro is not intended at this time to be a replacement for something like Auria Pro. It has some great features for doing linear sequencing but isn't intended to do the same sort of detail work one does in something like Auria.
It really depends on what features you need/use and what you consider full-featured. If you are looking for something that has the full feature sets of Logic or Reaper or Digital Performer or Cubase or Ableton in one app that is unlikely to happen on iOS any time soon. The economics just aren't there.
The best thing about a DAW for me is that it’s so easy to drop in audio, drag it around, and fine-tune it. Loopy Pro doesn’t really do any of that.
Depends on your needs, though.
But for looping with a timeline it’s just great.
Thanks for your answers guys
I don’t think you can call Loopy a DAW. It’s more like a comprehensive looping environment, CLE for short.
These days a DAW is expected to provide linear audio and midi sequencing, also providing sound sources to be sequenced. I’d expect there to be audio and midi tracks clearly visible on a timeline, really.
Way I see it, currently nothing can replace Auria Pro on iOS. And sadly Auria Pro feels kind of dated.
I do think Loopy could work as an iOS DAW, that is per comment above where iOS daws are quite limited anyway.
It might seem like I’m contradicting myself here, but I don’t think Loopy Pro should bother too much about implementing midi… What we all love about AUM is it’s modular approach, you get específico tools to do specific stuff. If Loopy can host or work in tandem with very capable and specific midi tools like Atom2, LK, Helium… Why duplicate what’s already there?. IMO efforts would be best directed at providing a solid ground for routing, controlling… sort of like AUM does extremely well. Multi outs, sidechaining, flexible audio routing, solid midi fx and so on. There’s a lot to be done in audio, why get into midi when it’s a whole different world?.
I believe @gregsmith was trying out LK + Loopy which is a combo that I’m eager to try. I might be wrong but I believe we’ll get further if we have specific tools that evolve in parallel. For example, if Loopy was to implement midi it might push back complicated stuff like audio transient editing that would be amazing to have but it probably wouldn’t be “top of the list” If Loopy embraced it all.
Just my thought… In summary, I think modular is the way to go. Cheers!.
+1 with modular approach @tahiche
Can you not sequence elsewhere and loopy be as good as multitrack daw. With imported audio?
To me the dream is a looping workflow as indistinguishable as possible when I switch between recorded instruments, such as a guitar, voice, and midi instruments. If that can be achieved with excellent integration with Atom 2, LK, and the like, that suits me. But I expect the workflow will be different and probably more complicated. I just really want it seamlessly integrated and distraction free.
Scope creep will undoubtedly try to work its way in with midi clip support. IMO it should be pure and simply record and playback all midi (notes and all other controllers) with the minimum common features that audio loops have. No piano roll editor, etc.
I do hope midi looping comes at some point (as Michael has indicated is the plan).
How’s the ‘look back recording’ working out? (I think that was its final name). This is one of the main things I am looking forward to experimenting with. I imagine that it’s a lot of fun. How does it integrate with the timeline?
@tahiche here’s the latest proof of concept. Once @Michael adds auv3 multi out, we’re basically there.
Oh, it's FABULOUS! It's a killer feature all by itself, IMHO. One thing I learned from the beta test discussion on Slack is that you can assign the retrospective recording to a specific gesture so that you can basically do both "normal looping" (tap to start) and retrospective looping with another gesture like swipe down or something. It is so nice to have that option when something unexpected happens and you're like "dang, I need that". Just swipe down and it's there.
Super cool, I also like this AUM modularity!! 👏
Ah… super. Just what I was hoping to hear. That sounds just dandy! Thanks…. all I have to do now is wait a little longer 😐
Yeah, I don't want to jinx it but the pace at which Michael is knocking down bugs is super-human. If he continues like this I predict he'll hit his target for release.