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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Usenet! BBS! 😄
Now I'm kicking myself for getting rid of my old 80286 PC with the cool orange CRT and the cutting edge 2400 baud modem running that old bbs server. We could have sewn this up right here and now.
Awww man. I could’ve set up my autodialer to test out different codes on different LDS’s so we could all use the codes for free long distance service.
Guess we’ll just have to rely on our dodgy ISDN to communicate for the next few days until the Wi-Fi comes back online in my Snow covered Cabin in the woods.
Thanks for your attention Mr. genius developer!
I finally have been getting somewhere with the app after attributing most of the glitchy behavior and crashes/lockups due to my home made MIDI foot controller. For some reason Loopy did not like that particular controller. Once I resolved the MIDI hardware issue things are working much better for me now.
If I run into more erratic behavior I will most definitely send a video your way.
Congratulations on the release of this milestone in iPad audio production apps!
Just wondering is there a way to have the MIDI clock follow the tempo when I change the speed or speed and pitch of all loops, so that my drums follow in AUM?
I recommend using Ableton Link.
That does not work. Of course it works if you change tempo but it does not work for following speed clip settings.
I misunderstood what you wanted. The clip pitch and speed settings are specific to an individual clip and don't impact the project tempo. So, it wouldn't be possible for changing a clip's speed to change the clock/tempo. The way to change the speed of all clips in Loopy is to change the tempo. All clips automatically will be time-stretched to the new tempo.
@espiegel123
If you bind all clip speed settings to a controller the results are spectacular. To bad that it does not control the speed of the MIDI clock simultaneously. A major oversite IMHO
If you are changing the speed of all clips, why not just control the tempo directly? It will do the exact same time-stretching of all your clips AND update the clock.
OK....I will try that....thanks for the input. I did not think that would work. It looks like I made a major over site IMHO....Laughs at self.
I see that you can bind it with a CC MIDI controller but I find no way to control it with a widget. Unfortunately.
Just listen to Tool and you’ll get it
Anything you can control with midi you can control with a widget; just add the widget you want to use and hook it up to the action. For more see loopypro.com/manual/#widgets and loopypro.com/manual/#actions (The latter is still a work in progress)
Ahh, this is brilliant 😎 I was wondering if there was any way to make a momentary 'hold to set the send to delay to max' button for some dub-style delay action. Sounds like it's not only possible, but super easy! 👍
Other things I was wondering is what the score is with multi track recording of projects/performances and if there's some way of bouncing a donut or colour to a new loop including its effects chain?
Overall I'm hugely impressed with Loopy Pro. I've tried so many different ways of making music over the past couple of years, but the immediacy and workflow available here is truly something special, so thank you @Michael 🙏
Some small workflow suggestions I'd make after having used it a bit is some way of previewing sample files in the file browser when importing wavs, and a simple way of swapping out auv3s from the mixer view
Thanks again 🙂
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You can resample from donuts to other donuts. See the link to the article about resampling on the Loopy wiki:
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=loopy_pro
It’s a totally new way of working for me, and I’m really loving it! I’m still very fond of using AUM but I’m now recording perfect loops of my tracks in AUM and transferring them into Loopy where it’s so much easier and more fun to perform them. Instant satisfaction touching combos of loops on and off for jamming.
Much gratitude to @Michael for updating Loopy to run on iOS13!
To record performances, tap the record button at the top of the looping screen and pick Record Audio. You then get combined and multi-track options. You can also record to the sequencer, then export from the sequencer.
and if there's some way of bouncing a donut or colour to a new loop including its effects chain?
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What I do is pick a color to bounce to. Then I set the output of the original loop's color to that one and then record.
Hopefully both of those will be coming. Sample Crate is a good option for previewing samples. You can drag from there into clips.
I try to minimize the FX that I put on audio input sources and put them on colors instead. That way swapping out an AU is as simple as changing the monitoring for that input from the speakers to that color.
Annoying this video doesn’t cover 13/8 but it’s a fun look at time signatures
Thank you! That’s great to hear
Like this?
That’s coming soon
That's fine for files imported to media, but where it would be more useful is in the Document Picker. Sample Crate and Koala have enhanced document pickers that include preview. That's what I really want.
Ah I see! Wow. I didn’t even know that was possible. I look into it
How about a volume control for the imported media? I almost blew my ears out the other day...
Yes please! I know GarageBand & Beatmaker 3 have a seperate volume control for previewing clips
@Michael small feature request - it’d be nice to be able to see the original file name in the clip editor window for imported media (where it shows the waveform) If I’ve imported a few loops in different keys and want to pitch correct them to the same key - it’s easy to forget what loops (& their key) I’ve imported into different donuts. The file name could just be overlaid in small text over the top corner of the waveform?
Ahh yes, super easy too, thank you 🙂
Sorry if this was already covered but what’s the quickest way to initialize a donut back to default settings?
An individual donut to factory defaults? There isn't really any way. The closest thing is to have your global clip settings the way you want them, then turn off the Playback and Record toggles on the individual clip. There's a "Restore Defaults" button at the bottom of the global clip settings, which if used would then make the clips with those toggles off effectively factory default.
Or, just drag the contents of the clip to another clip that hasn't been altered.
Something you can do is drag the audio from a donut to a new donut. Press and drag lets you move the audio from one donut to another.
At the risk of quoting myself and creating some kind of infinite metaverse, I've tried this this evening and it works beautifully 🥳
Momentary buttons for sending channel colours to an effect send with a delay and filter and hands on control of the feedback and filter cutoff. Really good fun, will be great with a midi controller
The dragging trick will work great. Thanks @wim and @espiegel123