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.
Comments
.
I bought the ML as well @ArcaneScreams :-)
Over in the FB iPad Musician group, we are having a bit of an "Anthem Challenge" as suggested by one of the members. This is a contribution to that.
A free arrangement in G and 4/4 time of the Welsh National Anthem using Tonestack for two of the parts.
Acoustic guitar into RP255 pedal on clean setting then via CCK into iPad into Tonestack. Then into Crystalline so I could maintain some semblance of a Welsh choir ;-) and into Cubasis - all via Audiobus.
Fender Strat into RP255 pedal on clean setting then via CCK into iPad and then Tonestack into Cubasis via Audiobus.
iFretless Bass via Audiobus into Cubasis. Some EQ applied and Stereo Designer used via IAA to widen the acoustic part.
Enjoy
Oh, sorry, haha, of course you did. I forgot. My apologies. Um, help yourself to a preset! I'm curious as to what TS saves. The bank? The patch?
Good stuff. Not quite the same at 60,000 at Cardiff Arms Park belting it out, but still. Perhaps you could have a crack at The Marseillaise next?
I'm half Welsh but not French @JohnnyGoodyear ;-)
@ArcaneScreams I don't know, when I open that it says "the ToneStack preset for this setup is no longer available".
@MusicInclusive That sounds really good. Nice tones. I like it.
Ok. I'll edit the post then. Weird. Ok, before I deleted the patch, I tried to load it myself, and it loaded a different patch. Hmm. Must have been something I did. 2nd try didn't work either.
same problem with that one
Just for fun I'm going to report a strange problem that I'm having with ToneStack and AB. I have AB on three iPads, which is overkill, but two of them are the 3 generation, and one of those was a gift, so I could easily justify getting the Air when it was released.
Anyway, one of the 3s works normally with ToneStack, but TS killed AB on the other 3. When I add TS then AB quits working with anything. TS doesn't even have to be running. When it's on the pad AB goes wonky. AB quits waking up any apps or running anything through anything. When I delete TS then AB goes back to normal.
Resetting doesn't help. There used to be a harder-than-hard reset, but that doesn't seem to exist any more. I've deleted and reinstalled both TS and AB multiple times. That hasn't helped. I have come up with one simple solution, which is to say, "screw it" and simply use TS on the two pads that it works on. I'm having an otherwise good day so I don't feel like battling any problems.
Even though I'm not here looking for a solution I still wanted to report this just in case any other 3 owners are lurking with the same mystery ToneStack problem. Why it exists on one of my 3s and not the other is what seems strange to me.
So far I have ran the synths, analog drums, toy pianos... Everything through it. It is best with a harmonica though. Rockabilly echoes works great for some harmonica soloing
@Janie The 3rd gen iPad have popped up before here having weird issues related to various audio apps, that none of the other iPad models had. No one knows what's different about it (except for being underpowered for running a retina res screen). Perhaps a higher % of faulty production sets delivered due to Apple scrambling to push out iPad 4 to replace the 3 as quickly as possible (only a few months gap between the two models so..)
After an initial reaction that Tonestack falls into the "too digital" camp, I messed around with it for a bit and came away much more impressed. Double-checking the input level made a big difference in the depth - the default input gain was fairly low and sounded flat.
Tonestack Blues is a Strat through The Boar into the EMT plate - works for me.
For those on the fence, spend some time monkeying around with the presets. I ended up with The Motherlode.
Can somebody give me like a brief paragraph crash course on how exactly you can use ToneStack as an effect for other apps? I tried two different things:
(1) Tried making an AudioBus chain (Synth/Other Instrument App (Input) -> ToneStack (FX) -> Output (set to either iPad speaker, or a recording app like AudioShare/DAW/etc.);
(2) Tried using ToneStack as an IAA effect in AudioShare, so I selected a synth app as the input in the AudioShare recorder, and then picked ToneStack as the effect.
Both ways, no sound. Or at least not any monitored sound that I could hear. Had BCKD AUDIO turned on everywhere I could find. What am I not getting? (Thanks!)
@StormJH1 said:
I'm very interested as well. Your first option would be the path that i'd choose, as I'd like to run something like Sunrizer or Nave through ToneStack. I'm worried if that's not going to be possible.
It has to be possible - I swear I read people here doing it all the time. I have trouble in general with IAA chains producing no monitoring sound even when they are actually recording.
Not that people are holding their breaths, but my problematic ipad 3 degressed into a full-scale meltdown, so my issue with Tonestack killing AB was probably just a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc. I wound up losing all audio. Apps started racing each other to see which could crash the fastest. I decided to save what I wanted through the funbox route and then I went back to the factory settings. I'm sorry for dragging ToneStack through the mud of my problem, so I wanted to come back here to vindicate it. I might wind up springing for the all-in pack.
Audiobus option is working for me, just as described.
Tried using several synths (Animoog, Arctic Pro, MitoSynth) through TS in Effects to the speaker/headphones output. Working fine on iPad4, iOS 7.1.2
Not sure if it will work all that well for synths though as TS units probably are optimized for guitar-typical sounds. Do synth guys use guitar amps in real life? I really don't know.
I haven't done much with the synths in TS other than to check that they would work, I liked the sound from the synths alone better but haven't experimented with amp and effects settings in TS with the synths so it might work well with more experimentation and tweaking of course. Simply haven't had the time.
Yonac has a forum. Maybe you guys can get some help/tips there?
http://www.yonac.com/forum.html#/discussions
EDIT: I also see where @ShawnLeonhardt posted on Facebook that he "literally ran 35 instruments through this basic 4.99 app," so maybe he can chime in or you can shoot him a PM.
@StormJH1 Youre not getting sound? Hmm. This works like any other AB chain. Open AB. In AB Settings, I choose 512 or 1024 first, depending on what I'm about to open. Next, pick an Input app. Doesn't have to be a synth. I used Guitarism as well. Open the Input app first, or you may get feedback. Pick TS either as a Effect or Output. Open it from AB. You may get a popup message in TS about Feedback reduction. In TS, go to Audio Prefs. Turn on Background Audio, and I turn off Feedback options. I put a EQ first in the TS chain, to boost the audio signal coming in, and to carve the sound a bit. I split the incoming audio with a ABY splitter, putting a EQ on both L and R, immediately after the Splitter. Then, I build the chain. See pict.
I would really like to know how taxing ToneStack is on the iOS system. Anyone tested that yet? CPU usage?
JamUp is my other guitar FX app to compare to. Is this similar in resource usage?
Audiobus working great on my ipad 4. Used multiple synths and my korg Volcas through it...excellent!
I'm using TS on an iPad 3. As far as taxing goes, the Poly OCT causes the most CPU usage. That said, the pitch shifter in Audulus does the same thing. Too many computations, I guess.
@StormJH1 said:
Are you listening through the speaker? Activate the "monitor live microphone" option.
@ArcaneScreams said:
Thank you, I got that to work with Guitarism, but following the same steps with Addictive MicroSynth, it didn't work the first time. What seems to happen is that it will just crap out in ToneStack and then won't work until you load a new preset. After switching from Texas Blues to Boosted Racing Green, I got it to work with Addictive MicroSynth.
So it does work, but if you didn't play around with the presets, you may assume it doesn't. Probably just some connectivity glitches to be ironed out in future updates.
(Update: Pretty cool running these synths through a Fuzz Face or Wah for the first time. Haha)
THANKS!
You're welcome. And I hope we get to hear your thoughts about the amps and cabs.
Glad you're having fun. Korg, iSem, Sunrizer. Seriously.
Pretty impressed so far. Really like polyoct and dual harmonizer. Can't say yet how basic amps and cabs compare to JamUp.
@ArcaneScreams said:
I did get to plug it in briefly yesterday (in addition to messing around with Guitarism, which is a great convenience, but not something I want to base sound quality opinions off of.
What I need to do is start my own presets from scratch. I had a cheap (but modded) Strat into the Texas Blues preset, and it sounded great. But the Fender-y presets in general sounded a bit thin to me. Then again, I felt exactly the same way about the presets in JamUp XT - you really need to set things up from scratch to see what the EQ is doing, check the levels, etc. Only then can you set up "presets" of your own that will work with the guitars you own.
On the encouraging side, there is a preset called "Heavy OD" that runs a ProCo Rat ("Gerbil") into a Marshall Super Lead ("Britannia"). I found that to be incredibly ballsy using only a middle single coil on my Strat, though the default settings had too much saturated gain. So any generalizations that the app as a whole has "thin sounding" apps is definitely wrong.
A word on noise reduction - it does work, but most of the out-of-the-box presets don't include one. The base package does include the Noise X! pedal, which actually seemed to work best at the front of the chain (kind of like an MXR Noise Clamp or something). Noise is actually handled very well in JamUp XT (Provided you have a digital interface and not through the headphone jack), and I think it works here too. The dirt pedals were a bit noisy, but remember that I was running a Strat without humbucker pickups, which is the type of pickup I would normally use for any "gainy" distorted or overdriven sounds.
Based on my initial impressions, there is a good chance I will end up with the $50 Motherload package. There is enough good stuff here that I would spend that much anyway trying to buy only the ones I really want one-by-one or in bundles. I would also note that the variety of distortion pedals here in this initial release is probably the best out of any of the guitar apps (IMO), matched only by JamUp XT with their latest Vintage Effects bundle, which just added an OCD and a few other essentials last month.
@Hmtx said:
Obviously, I haven't tested huge, complicated chains yet. But on my iPhone 5s, which is still the fastest phone and probably close to the newest iPad's in speed, a simple OD pedal into amp and cab chain was generally between 10-25% usage, and even the more complex chains (even with A/B splitting) usually stayed below 50%. Doug from thesoundtest room indicated that he had tried to push it to the limit and the newer devices handled it pretty well.
Of course, a lot of this will also depend on your AudioBus/IAA chain and resources being demanded by other apps.