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.
Drum App for Loopy Pro Transitions?
I am hoping to use Loopy Pro for a live EDM performance. The songs are programmed on a hardware groovebox (Circuit Tracks) and Loopy Pro is hosting some synths, effects, live vocal looping, and samples.
I hope to use a few very simple drum loops to transition between songs fluidly. My thought was that I would host a drum app in Loopy Pro and have a few buttons on my Loopy Pro interface that trigger the different drum loops.
Is this the simplest approach? If so, which drum app can accomplish this? I downloaded digistix 2, as it looked intuitive, but I am not able to get loopy pro to trigger patterns that I created in digistix.
In theory I suppose I could just use pre recorded drum loops as donuts in loopy pro, but will they sound ok as I change bpm to transition between songs?
Comments
To clarify, I should say that I intend to use drum sequences/patterns, as opposed to audio loops. Although if audio loops are easier and will sound ok while changing bpm that could work too.
You can just record a loop of any drum app, and use that. If it’s only a few bars for a transition, it won’t make any difference.
If you have DigiStix, you might want to create a thread to ask how one changes digistix patterns via MIDI. There is no reason Loopy wouldn’t be able to be set up to send the needed midi to the AU.
I would use hammerhead for this. You can trigger or switch patterns with midi really easily, using C1 through to G1.
Send midi note data to trigger patterns on hammerhead. Makes sense to me and I’ll give it a try.
Fair point espiegel. You provide a ton of helpful input on this forum and I’ve learned a lot from your comments.
I was hoping to get input on the simplest approach to accomplish this goal (bpm synced drum patterns for song transitions). The tool I selected was digistix, but it might be the case that digistix isn’t the best tool for the job or that I’m thinking about the problem in the wrong way.
For what it’s worth I ended up recording audio drum loops in digistix as audio files and adding them as donuts in loopy pro. Each donut is a different element (kick, snare, hh, etc.). It’s a workable solution but changing bpm produces some glitches.
What you want to do seems reasonable. You just need to know what midi Didigistix uses for pattern changes.
Hammerhead would work great.