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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Loopy Pro Questions
Let's use this thread for people to post "how do you do that" type questions. It'll be useful to know what sorts of tutorials would be useful (hint, hint to those of you who can make some quick helpful demos) and will be useful in beefing up the Loopy Pro related pages on the Audiobus Forum wiki:
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=tag:loopy_pro&do=showtag&tag=loopy_pro
Also: take a look at the wiki if you have questions. They may already be answered. @tja posted a handy PDF there with screens from the built-in tutorial.
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How about a walk thru of recording a performance from the loop grid into the timeline and some timeline editing basics Having used ableton I understand the basics but a video of some of that would be cool!
Loopy Pro on iPad shows AUv3 apps and FX’es. On my iPhone it does not… just the FX built into Loopy Pro. Is that to be expected?
It is, if Loopy Pro is the only music app on your iPhone. 🤓
All iPhone capable apps are auto-installed on my iPhone so I will reboot and look again.
AUM just told me to reboot to see AUv3 extensions.
In Standalone? Or were you loading LP in AUM or another host. It won't show AUv3 apps if loaded into a host.
[edit] I just saw your post above. Sounds like you got hit with the "missing AUv3s" iOS bug. Reboot should fix it.
Rebooted iPhone and all AUv3 apps are listing. I tried Enso and Gauss to loop loops… what pro’s call a loop de loop. The UI for them was small but sideways (landscape mode) helped. Couldn’t get a loop de loop going before I had to quit.
Operation on the iphone and ipad is the same. Do the AU show up in Audiobus or AUM
Just got it - sounding nice.. my seven day clock is ticking! 😮 Erm.. how do you configure the doughnuts so that in a column the one you have tapped next will start that one playing as the previous one completes (and stops) - like Launchpad or Remix Live?
I'll add something about this to the wiki. In the meantime, there are several ways.
For most of them, you will want to set the play/stop quantization to Loop.
one way is to make all the donuts in the column into a group and set it to play only one at a time.
another way is to tap the playing donut to stop and the one you want to start next.
if you make your column all the same color, you can define a gesture (even tap) to solo and set the context to color. it will ensure that only one donut of a color plays at a time. so, if a red donut is playing and you cue up another red donut, the new one will stop the old one when it starts playing.
If someone could make a video detailing MIDI foot controller settings. That would be awesome.
Also. is there some knowledge to be shared about ways to gradually fade a repeating loop out which is known in some hardware loopers as Loop Aging or Feedback Decay? It is easy to accomplish in Quantiloop using loop decay.
I am interested in using Loopy pro as the ultimate guitar looper setup. Mobius used to be the one for that but hauling around a PC is less than optimal.
What about setting up a foot controller do you have a question about?
Feedback decay isn't implemented. It is one of the features coming soon. See https://loopypro.com/manual/#roadmap
Most of the features in Mobius aren’t yet available in LP, though most of them are on the short-term development list. If you weren’t using a lot of the more advanced Mobius features, though, LP may be pretty good for you out of the gate.
I use the learn function and it sees my pedals CC message and saves it but nothing happens when I try so use the command.
Man....this looper has so many innovations and advanced settings I cannot believe that Mike never incorporated feedback decay out of the box.
I still never actually purchased the app. Still sitting on the fence....cheapy cheapy is what they called me in Mexico...LOL.
Anyhow, thanks for the info!
Muchos Gracious.
Perhaps you can post some screenshots or a screenrecording to show what is happening? There really isn't anything to it.
Sounds to me like maybe you didn't set a target for the action. As @espiegel123 mentioned, a screenshot or two would go a long way to resolving this I think.
Rebooting was required on the iPhone.
Perfect, thanks for that. I will just make a walkthrough for anyone struggling with this and wants to get there quick.
I recommend also trying out the method using a gesture to do solo with color context. It is even quicker to setup as once you have set it up it automatically applies to all colors!
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=loopy_pro_tips_and_tricks
Roger that! Cheers. I’ll get a look at that tomorrow. My eyeballs are now hanging out of their sockets dangling on two strings. I have just been lost for several magical hours purely clip launching.
Is it just me or does the app actively enhance the clarity of your clips? This is great - it’s all true 😃👍
So I broke down and purchased the app. Then it would not open and crashed 6 times. Finally it worked.
It turns out that the MIDI problem was due to conflicting global setups...I think. Anyhow, it is kind of working for me now but I find it somewhat confusing still. Certainly not as intuitive to operate as one would hope. I am sure I will get the hang of it. Better instructions might help .
Is there a way to delete previous global MIDI mappings?
Is there a way to reset the app to factory settings?
Btw, while the manual isn't complete, quite a bit of it is now available and can be accessed through the Help menu in Loopy.
Re: global profiles. You can switch between them and also delete them.
To delete an existing one, swipe left on its name (the standard iOS list item deletion gesture). You can also export and import them.
If you find anything confusing, ask about how its done. I think you will probably find it pretty straightforward once you are oriented.
If you haven't watched any of the tutorial or guide videos, they may help. The Loop Pro wiki pages are growing and have some useful links:
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=tag:loopy_pro&do=showtag&tag=loopy_pro
Here's also a link to the excellent, though not yet complete, manual in case you're away from the app: https://loopypro.com/manual/
I think @espiegel123 already replied with everything else I had in mind to say.
I would delete whatever mapping you already made by swiping left on it and clicking the red erase/delete button that appears.
Instead of using MIDI Learn, go to MIDI Control. From there, you want to edit the Default profile. (Or create a new one.) Click on the plus sign to Add New Binding.
You'll need to explore the options and then think about how you want to use your controller's buttons. I have a 4-button footswitch that I programmed as follows:
Button 1: Play/Stop Selected Clip. (This will also start recording the selected clip if it's empty.)
Button 2: Select Previous Clip
Button 3: Select Next Clip. (These two middle buttons let me move around the donuts and choose the next loop for recording.)
Button 4: Clear Selected Clip. (The most important for me, because I rarely get it right on the first try.)
I've been trying to setup a Rozeta LFO to control a Channel Send FX knob but can't get this to work.
can you post screenshots of the setup or post a project?
If you are trying to send from within Loopy Pro to the MIDI Control, you currently need to hack things a little bit because MIDI Control (currently) only sees MIDI coming from outside Loopy. There are a few tricks though:
https://wiki.audiob.us/doku.php?id=loopy_pro_tips_and_tricks
So i'm just starting to get into this. So pardon the noob questions if they've already been answered here or in any of the 30 other loopy pro threads...