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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iPad 6 2018 128gb.
Welcome @amethystswitch
iPad Pro 2017 10.5. I am still very satisfied. The battery is showing barely a little bit of aging.
Still rocking an iPad Air 2. Battery life is getting pretty poor and it can be slow on ad heavy web sites, but for music it meets my needs thanks to Loopy Pro.
Before Loopy Pro, life was hard. It could hold up to quick jams with three or four heavier plugins or more if I stick to the efficient ones, but to go any further than that meant bouncing to audio, which then was a hassle unless using a DAW that has good freeze/unfreeze. I don't enjoy jamming in most DAWs though, so I'd usually lose interest in taking things further.
Loopy Pro is perfect. I can load up as many plugins as I want, committing to audio, and idling the plugins as I go. If I want to go back and change something, or if I want to add more parts, I just need to re-engage the plugins I need. I can have huge projects and be well under 25% utilization, all without losing my creative freedom.
My wife's Air 2, bought the same day as mine, died. I mean really, really died. Until mine does that, I'm going to see how long I can go with this baby. It's a matter of weird pride at this point.
iPad pro 10.5 2017 (music and everyday use)
iPad mini 2
iPad 2
Using the latest two as midi controllers and for external panels for flight simulators. Never sell old friends
2018 basic iPad, 128GB, starting to get a little creaky but generally still happy with it. Would love a Pro but they’re wildly out of my price range.
Right now I’m using an iPad Air 4 (the 2020 version). It works like a dream, but I do want one with more storage eventually. But I’m holding out until I see what they announce this fall. I’ll probably upgrade to the highest tier possible and keep it for the next 6-7 years or so. I usually only upgrade my phones and iPads every 4ish years.
Basic iPad 2017 here, still rockin', a little. The real pain is 32gb storage.
Hey, welcome. Yes, it’s mostly comity here, but not always. There are a few characters who muck things up once in a while in off topic land. Often I’m one of them. Stay away from any thread that’s offering candy to children and you’ll be fine.
Ipad8 for general stuff
11” pro2 for movies, music listening
12.9 pro2 for making music always with Cubasis, which works perfectly for me about 95% of the time,
You might want to reach out to @LFS from Steinberg to try to suss your Cubasis issue.
Standard iPad 6th gen (2018), 128GB. It’s doing fine so far. I occasionally run into memory/DSP limits, but on the whole it’s still great. I’d like a Pro, but it’s a lot of money, and my current iPad is fine.
I have an iPad 3 which is hardly used, I keep trying to find a use for it, but mostly it sits in a cupboard.
Still using my iPad Mini 2 from 2013 here
Working fine and dandy. My older one was an Ipad 2 (2011), which I gave to my nephew. He's still using for school and some music apps and games
I have four iPads, all purchased mainly for making music with a dance group I've been working with for years
The oldest is an iPad 3 from 2012. It still works but I no longer use it. It holds a special place because it introduced me to the Sunrizer app.
My oldest iPad in regular use is an Air 1st Gen. from 2013, mainly running Launchpad app and drum / perc apps such as DrumJam. (It, along with my 2017 12.9" iPad Pro, was part of my regular rig and it never caused a problem as it aged. It has recently been replaced for in-person gigs by an Air 3rd Gen., but it is still in use in my home studio set-up.)
Nice!
That was my go-to machine for music production and art until last week when I bought a new 12.9" Pro. However, I still use my Mini 5 for laying back in bed, surfing the web, watching videos on Youtube, and mucking about in Koala Sampler.
Basic iPad 6th gen. Still serving me well.
Would like to upgrade to a pro of some kind but purely for a bigger screen
I’m honestly in disbelief at how lightly you manage to shoot out gentle digs.
I think you are a generally nice person and your intelligence shines through your posts but little digs like this really bring down your average.
Perhaps I’m reacting because I’ve been (for better or worse) one of those ‘others’ on the other side of the debate. This does not matter, really.
Please take more care when expressing yourself because, while you may not have awareness of your own shortcomings, others may, yet choose to remain silent.
Back on topic
iPad 3, iOS 7.1.2 - Alchemy, Earhoof, TF7 Synth, Zampoña, ImproVox, Goodreader.
iPad mini 2, iOS 10.3.3 - Alchemy, Earhoof, TF7 Synth, Zampoña, ImproVox, Goodreader.
iPad Air 2, iOS 14.8.1
iPad 6th gen, iOS 15.5
I'm still rocking the 64GB iPad Air 2 running iPadOS15.5...
...the battery is in a not so stellar state at the moment with random shut-downs.
(~1 hour from full charge to 0% with normal usage so it mostly stays plugged-in to my MacMini).
The 256GB Wifi M1 11" iPadPro with Apple Pencil and Smart Cover is the current prime candidate for an eventual upgrade...
...and well some bloody dongles for connectivity.
@LinearLineman - you can take digs at me gently or brutally any time you like. There’s nothin’ I enjoy more than a well crafted put down at my own expense.
Standard iPad 5th Gen., 128GB here. It's still doing pretty well and I'm doing heavy jam sessions with it weekly.
I would be interested in a comparison of the processor load of individual effects on different models. With the new percentage display for individual plugins in AUM you could do that well. Are you interested? Then I would start a thread.
Whenever I look at any of the modern Pro iPads and add up the cost including keyboard it always ends in my concluding that the same money would be better spent on a MacBook Air, always. Now that the M2 MacBook Air will be available this is even truer than the true it was
Oeh that’s a good idea, I’m curious as well!
2020 pro 12.9 1tb
iPad Pro 12.9 2020 max specs
iPad Air 1 running IOS 7.0 fully loaded still working
I they drop the iPad 12.9M2 I'm getting it
Welcome to this great forum 😊. I use an Ipad 2018 pro 11” 256GB. It wouldn’t hurt to get the battery replaced but apart from that It is still a beast.
iPad 3 (2012?) and iPad Pro 9'7" (2016?).
Keeping them on 7 and 10, respectively.
2018 iPad Pro 11” 1TB bought in late 2019! This thing still packs a punch, except if I forget to close YouTube while multitasking, and then there is a weird green flash shutdown type crash that kinda pisses me off 🤷🏼♂️.
But it holds it own for all the music I can though it at for the most part. SynthMaster 2 and Tera Pro have been pushing the limits a bit further than I like, so I have been patiently waiting for next gen to drop, at which point I will see if getting a 2TB M1 Pro or the new thing is better. Likely still keep this for double duty, travel, etc.
2017 iPad Pro here. Refurbished. Works like a charm and is fine for everything I use it for.
I don't see any reason to worry about this. It's more of an issue in the mitigation for a vulnerability than a vuln itself. But, It is unlikely that it is in the M1 alone. Since the M1 and the A14 share cores, this is most likely in the A14 as well. It's probably in the A15 and M2 too.
I take it as an honest bit of research. I kinda lean towards all the "M1" stuff being a bit of clickbait. But, I also assume that they did the research on the M1 because they did it on a Mac where it would be easier to do. I'm going to go with everyone, including the researchers at MIT and the engineers at Apple, is aboveboard and doing the right thing. I just don't think it'll be a big deal for endusers. (Note that, as usual, I could easily be wrong.)
I do find it very interesting that the thing at the base of all of this is speculative execution. It's an optimization technique that gets rid of a whole bunch of the things I used to think about when writing high performance computing algorithms. The fact that the CPU designers are working to making things so much easier is so very cool. The fact that some people spend their time exploiting all this to make a few bucks by comparison is disheartening.