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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Few problems getting the Roli Noise AU to show presets inside Loopy Pro anyone managed to use the app as of yet. Tried in AUM and showing presets fine? Loopy Pro is not letting me change the preset at present.
Noise has been like this for a while in various hosts. I haven't worked out the surefire sequence for Loopy Pro yet but a combination of waiting and opening/closing eventually brings it to life. In AUM I would eject and re-enable the plugin and it would come alive.
Edit: just tried and it seems that opening/closing/opening the plugin window brings up the internal keyboard which then lets you select presets.
Cheers will give that a go.
You also need to stretch the window a bit in Loopy as the presets are by default off the top of the displayed screen.
@MisplacedDevelopment Got it working after a few false starts many thanks.
Seriously, instead of a fixed set of pre-defined time signatures, why not provide a drop down list, where we can choose the numerator freely? (And the denominator as 2 to the power of x, FWIW.) I mean, there will always be people who'd like to play in 19/16. Maybe not all the time but... why not?
Is the decay being cut off in the loop recording, in tail recording or in live playing?
I haven’t experience it but it is possible that in some cases Loopy is idling the effect to early. You can turn idling off by opening the effect and long pressing where on/off/idle appear?
+1 for 13/8 - I have such a song I would like to play live with Loopy Pro .
(can send @Michael private demo if required)
/4 or /8 seems to make a particular difference to non 4/x meters as it therefore affects the length of the bar & the arrangement .
So (also with reference to AUM comparisons above ) AUM only offering /4 makes some of my tracks difficult to work , & with one track in 6/8 I have had to double the tempo to get things to work (iirc)
Congrats on release Michael, I will be diving in soon .
This exactly
Btw, you can actually record in any meter . as long as you don't need the metronome (which means indicated bpm will be wromg). the basic unit in Loopy is ultimately loop cycles. i have often recorded loops in weird meters in Loopy without bothering to set the time signature. granted if your are trying to sync to clocked synths or other apps this doesn't work.
I need a tutorial on how to read odd time signatures!. What does 13/8 rally mean?. 🤯
Just started digging into this behemoth!
Maybe this is asking too much, but this app is so deep and awesome, so hopefully there is a way to do this…
I set up four colors with four loops vertical per color and the top two and last two of each color ‘grouped’. I want to send vocals, keys, guitar, percussion each to their own color. Why I grouped in twos is to be able to have sections of loops that can turn on/off automatically when choosing another group in the same color. So far, so good…
I have an iRig Blueboard - four Bluetooth pedals.
I have been able to assign each pedal to the top layer of loops…but my hope is to use each button to record through the color in order. In other words, hit button A to record loop 1(orange), hit it again to end loop(continue playing) and the next time I hit button A it starts recording loop 5(orange, next line down), hit again to end loop ( continue playing)…and the same for each button/color. Is this, or something like it possible?? I know there are so many actions and triggers…I dug through a lot last night, but haven’t figured it out yet. Thanks for any help given!!
What does 13/8 rally mean?. 🤯
Most of the time nothing at all, other than a bit of musical self-gratification. 🤷 Sometimes, though, luck and skill lead to something like the Stranglers song above where the result does sound unforced AND musical.
/envy+sarcasm
Most of it is alternating bars of 6/8 and 7/8, and the verses are in 6/8. The more difficult think about it is that it’s in Bb minor, and some of the left hand parts require that you have an additional finger.
Right now setting up that particular case isn’t possible.
You could create an after record follow action that selects the clip below. Currently, follow actions are defined at either color level or clip level and not globally. So you would have to set it up for each color. Hopefully, global follow actions will come.
Once you have set it up once you could save the doc and use it as a template.
The way I’d probably set this up, given my current knowledge of LP’s behavior, is to program a binding for each pedal that steps through a series of Toggle Recording actions targeted to each clip in sequence: the orange pedal would have two actions targeted to clip 1 (one to start recording, one to stop), then two targeted to clip 5, and so on. After you’ve recorded all four clips, though, what would you expect the buttons to do?
Oops - just looked up my files & my song is 13/16 actually - are 16ths available & can 13 be added @Michael .
As I said though , the /x does affect bar length ,so just tested switching the /16 to /8 in Ableton & the Global bar counter now no longer follows the melody timing so arrangement is all off.
You aren't by any chance using retrospective recording are you? I don't think tails work with retrospective looping, unless that's changed since I first tried it.
Not sure if you noticed, but if you record your drum computer stuff to audio and mute DC, a lot of CPU becomes available. When synths get muted, LP frees up the resources they used...which I believe is unique among hosts.
I was going to mention this too. I'm getting huge added mileage out of my Air 2 just by remembering to disable apps that I'm not using. It seems like I can go on forever.
Yep. I'm hoping AU parameter mapping improvements are high on the list for when Michael dives back in ... I hope after a substantial and well-earned break.
I’d dare to say this SHOULD be the way to work with Loopy. Bounce whatever to audio and keep it muted/idle in case you want to come back later, change something and bounce again. This should be the mindset, make it all about 🍩
I was watching the Beatles documentary (Get Back) yesterday. They had trouble getting hold of an 8 track recorder!. And I thought about Loopy and my iPad….
Loopy makes it so fast and easy to get you auv3 midi stuff to an audio donut that it’s not really a problem. In Cubasis you have to freeze and then move the track which is now strereo, in Zenbeats it’s ridiculously complicated… I’m ok with changing my workflow when the new one makes sense and Loopy definitely makes sense.
I literally meant that I don’t understand the 13/8 signature.
To me a 6/8 is one 3/4 after another… I do get the 7/8 and I have no idea of what 13/8 means. I just realized I understand signatures where the first number is lower than the second (3/4, 7/8). I don’t get the concept of “more notes than beats” that the 13/8 implies.
I thought it was cool and punk to not care about music theory but I do wish I had a better musical “vocabulary”.
(Edit) I looked it up. I’m still having problems understanding the “8” 😃
Getting weird behaviour with Gauss - loaded as effect The knobs in Gauss will only go to either 0 or 100% when I try adjusting any of them. Anybody else experience this?
No problems like that here. Are you manipulating them on-screen from the Gauss interface, or some other way?
the denominator is largely about convenience in writing out the music and convention. there are a lot times where people won't even agree about the convenience. (Slow blues with swing feel is one example. Some notate as 4/4 and some as 12/8.
Also with meters like 13/8 (or 13/4) there are a ton of different feels that one might have. Again, this is by convention. But people really into poly meters will explore different types of 13
6 + 7
3 + 3 + 3 + 4
3+2+3+2+3
etc
Etc where a group is determined by emphasis on the first note of the group.
In Indian music for just about any number of beats per cycle there lots of different patterns that are distinct and have their own names.
3/4 is a three-quarter-note feel: 1-and-2-and-3-and. 6/8, in contrast, is conventionally counted as two beats - it’s a triplet feel, like the 12/8 blues shuffle. So it’s 1-and-a-2-and-a. 9/8 is similar - it’s three triplets. Irish music uses a fair amount of 6/8 and 9/8, as an example. 13/8 just means a thirteen-note measure with an eighth-note feel. It’s not a matter of there being "more notes than beats," as the 9/8 example should make clear.
[EDIT: There are folk tunes in Balkan music that count 9/8 as 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and-a. More accurately, Western musical notation counts both that rhythm and the Irish three-triplet rhythm I mentioned as "9/8," because they have nine notes to a measure, even though their feels are very different.]
Just onscreen in gauss. Just tried again - loaded new Loopy project and Gauss in effect slot - checked nothing else running in background. Same issue. Any knob or slider I try to adjust automatically moves to either 0 or 100% depending on where I let go on the value.
( and restarted iPad too)
Just making sure I understand. If you use your finger in Gauss’ u.I. to turn any knob, the knob only goes to its minimum or maximum value?