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 thought I’d show you that loopy isn’t all about donuts by setting up a proof of concept iPhone performance surface.
I’ve used built in button widgets to launch atom 2 clips and koala samples. The xy is hooked up to dub siren with the dial controlling the space echo effect.
You can probably set this up in AUM with touch osc or something, but it’s so easy and slick in loopy, and all at your fingertips.
Lots of power in a few buttons and knobs 😁
As a lot of you know, there’s a bug with atom 2 and some synths in loopy. @Michael is on the case I believe.
Anyone having any luck with the focusrite Scarlett 18i20? I get sound fine with AUM, but LP doesn't put out anything, nor does it see anything. It also stops audio from coming through the soundcard even though it's set to also work in standalone mode. If I close LP, the sound comes back no problem. I'm trying to hook it up to my iPad so I can record all my hardware into LP without having to patch and unpatch in my patchbay.
FIXED: Had to switch LP to 44.1khz. Now we all know. If your interface is set to a different sample rate, you need to change it manually when you plug it in.
I’m trying to do everything using Loopy Pro as the host.
Just think of the mixer as AUM - that made it all make sense to me.
The widgets are remarkably simple to setup
Yep, it is way deep. Those who like things like Drambo will certainly find it super simple to get on with. Personally I'm still on Loopy HD and QuantiLoop until some power users figure things out like making templates to emulate classic looping pedals.
Which pedals would you want to see emulated? I’ve been building a DL-4 template, though that’s on hold until some post-1.0 features come in.
DAW's are always way too much to consume in less than a month of chewing. But mastering a DAW is the best route to productivity and the potential to collaborate with others.
Ask any productive creator and you'll discover some loyalty to a DAW... @Lady_App_titude mastered a desktop DAW in the 00's or earlier and hasn't budged since to stay productive.
DAW's with paid update models are definitely the future if desktop patterns of market development stay true in the IOS world. It seems to be the only pattern that keeps apps in development for more than a few years.
Since it does so much... it's wise to focus on one specific area and master it. Use a video as
a guide to basic Looping workflows. I think that;s really how I became so centered around being productive with AUM... by learning features well over a period of months.
I can see how Drambo would disclose it's gems using a similar approach since it has multiple dimensions.
Anything that approaches the capabilities of a DAW has this challenge to slowly master dozens of concepts and "menus" to really use it well. As will all of my DAW's... you have the option to give up or just not play at all. There are only 2-3 DAW's I haven't bought but based on ease of use I only have used AUM and Staffpad (which just added Audio and a library of sound content with a $40 sale event). For $40 it could be a cool tool to make your own loops but be advised it only works with an Apple pencil which I think is currently discounted $20 in some stores.
Very impressive. It’s an amazing app. What delay was that?
It’s the built in space echo on Italizer, then I’ve got a dubstation2 bus as well for the vocals and trumpet
+1!
I would like to see the RC-30. Using this "keep it simple"-pedal since 2011. God damn, I'm just old and oldschool. Or just outdated? 😂
We started a thread on the Discord about linking up to an iRig BlueBoard, which is kind of a separate challenge or perhaps what I really meant about importable templates - getting the MIDI settings going.
Perhaps I should create another thread there with the title to 'Pedal Emulation'. I saw there was an RC-505 template in the sample projects, which I'm exploring now. But an RC-30 was also one that came up in my thread as something that might be good for people coming over to the virtual world from real pedals.
Is love to see a walkthrough of how you set this up. This sounds similar to how I’d want to use the app.
My opinion is that the easiest way to set up pedal-emulation templates for new users is just to build clearly-labeled widgets in the project that emulate the button functions, and then use MIDI Learn to assign your footswitches to those widgets. That’s quick, but also flexible given the variety of individual end-user setups.
OK. 2 critical checkboxes ticked. I'll start my video training... off the the Audiobus wiki for
pointers and a good reason to add Wiki content:
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=loopy_pro&s[]=loopy&s[]=pro#loopy_pro
+1
Wow...just Wow! Thanks for opening our eyes
Glad it was useful! 👍
What are a couple of things holding you up, maybe we can help?
I, or others, can probably come up with short how-tos and demos …maybe your questions can help know what isn’t obvious.
p.s. I think because one can go deep, it is sometimes overlooked that it can be used simply without the bells and whistles.
yup, feature fomo. the nice thing with LP too is it looks like the depth does not make things messy and cluttered.
Gotta say that there are some not very nice people in the app store reviews complaining of the pricing model. This is one of the risks of a free-to-try app is that there is no investment required at all to get access to post reviews.
Ha ha. Cultural and language differences can bite hard. "Flaming" implies intense criticism rather than intense praise, depending on where you are and the context.
How about ‘glowing’?
Throbbing
Haha, yes please – I forgot to add a plea into the app itself. Positive reviews are going to be crucial to the app’s success at this stage. Doesn’t take much to sink, and there are a few pretty nasty people out there slinging turds.
Yes, “glowing reviews” would be appropriate.