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I’m an idiot… feel free to share!
Inspired by @GeoTony but way worse…. Thanks buddy!
Ever been an idiot when trying figure out how music stuff like hardware or software works? Failed miserably when performing due to being plain stupid? Made a fool out of yourself when trying to do something like helping others realizing you should have just kept your mouth shut?
This is the thread for you. And myself😂. Feel free to share your most stupid mistakes when it comes to our beloved profession/hobby/addiction/whatever….music.
My biggest mistake was buying and returning audio interfaces. Twice. When trying the first one out I could only get sound on one channel when recording. I could not understand what the hell was wrong and came to the conclusion that it must be something wrong with it. So, I sent it back, and got a shiny new one of the same model.
I went ballistic when the same thing happened again. Only one channel working when recording. Work on your anger I told myself. Sent it back and a couple of days later the fine people of the noname online store had sent me a third one.
Trying the third one out I encountered the same problem. Until I realized I hadn’t switched to stereo recording in my recording app. Suddenly I heard both channels….😂👌.
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Not sure if this answer quite fits, but... 👀 putting reverb on a sub bass. This was 15-20 years ago, but I kept wondering why my mix sounded awful. Not even realising that was a big mistake.
Also another mistake was not cutting frequencies below 200Hz of various tracks other than the kick and bass. Another lack of awareness as to why my mixes sounded muddy.
These are mostly beginner mistakes of course, but still dumb and embarrassing. 🤣
haha @DMfan I like that story, I relate.
I tried to help someone who was confused about automating sample start points rhythmically but forgot to ask what sample rate they used. None of my figures made sense to them (I record at 48k, they were at 44.1) so they face-palmed my math. I'm not great at math so it was a time consuming undertaking for me in the first place. Now I don't try to help anyone, I just try to keep my mouth shut.
Of course I'm wrong in life more often than I'm right, this wasn't the first episode like that, it probably won't be the last but I'm trying to minimize the grief.
Have you ever posted a long, detailed response to a technical question then had the OP respond with something like, "ok" or "I guess"? Yeah, you'll only do that once.
As far as plugging things in the wrong way or forgetting to turn stuff on, I do that every day.
I bought a laptop, bought insurance and about a year later I broke the power jack off the motherboard. Did I take it in for free repair under warranty?
No, I proceeded to attempt to “solder” the DUAL LAYER motherboard, melting through multiple layers of motherboard like a genuine moron and making my laptop into a $1000 act of stupidity.
I took apart an Ultranova synth, cleaned and reassembled it but the keyboard would not work.
I contacted the technician at Novation, and I walked through every detail of the situation, as the midi still worked so it was the keybed. They asked me if I seated the serial cable properly??? “of course I said!”
Eventually after harassing the poor tech and getting placed in contact with one of the actual folks who knew the synth they said to check the cable and take it to the shop if nothing.
Well I put it away and a year later I got an idea to CUT that useless keybed off and make a desktop/rack mount synth.
I told myself maybe I should check that serial cable before getting out the saw.
Sure enough, I am a moron, it was the serial cable seating like they suggested.
*what I had done was put it in backwards and when I reseated it I replaced it backwards again.
World class dumb ass here!!!
I might actually be too moron for the moron club. 🤡
I didn't know that. Interesting. Definitely share the vid if you find it. Cheers mate. 🙂
Oh no
This one hurts.
Yep, most EQ cuts actually have a small boost around the cutoff (slightly higher actually). It can be a useful trick to cut mud while giving a bit of a boost to the low mids for instant.
I spent twenty minutes last week trying to figure out why my new Polybrute wasn't working then I realized it wasn't even plugged in. Doh.
To be fair the dog must have stepped on the power cable and pulled it out of the back of the synth, it's normally plugged in all the time.
Well, I've learned something new today! 🤯 I'm going to research this online. Might help improve my mixes even further.
Many DIY manpoints there 🙌🤣…
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Top class👏👏👏😂.
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Your new call-sign is “Rumble”😂. Fly safe.
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Yup, I feel you😁. Also stepped into a room realizing you have no clue why you are in there?
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🤣 Just wait until I eat Taco Bell. Man the rumbles in my stomach would cause an earthquake.
Brilliant thread.
I was a part time postman once and this house was getting loads of hand written envelopes addressed to their daughter.
Dad comes out the house just as I’m delivering
Me: lots of cards being delivered, must be your daughters birthday
Dad: she died
A quality moment that one.
Save money and do an oil and filter change on my (rare Japanese) car?
Easy, it'll only take half an hour. No ramps or inspection pit but I'll just feel around under the car until I find the sump plug. Found, undone and drained. Oh, the oil is surprisingly clean. Not much of it either. Oh well, time to add new oil. That's strange - it really didn't take much fresh oil to fill it up again! Oh well I'm in a hurry, I've got to drive to another town 30 miles away...
Yes I'd drained my gearbox oil. The car drove fine for about 60 miles then completely lunched it's gearbox. Penny pinching cost me 4 figure bill for a replacement gearbox.
Fast forward 20 years I thought I'd save money and do an oil change on my wife's car.
Feeling around under the car I located the sump plug... Yes I really did do it a second time. Luckily this time I realised what a twat I'd been and didn't drive the thing.
Ouch. When I was sixteen I wanted to change the oil in my first car and forgot to put the oil pan plug back in before pouring in the new oil. 6 quarts later I was wondering why it was taking so much oil, then I looked down and saw the river of fresh oil running down my parents brand new driveway. Oops.
When the low oil light came on in our golf, I bought the oil and then tried to pour it down the little hole that the dip stick goes in… all the time cursing VW for their rubbish design!
You are not alone. I did the exact same thing- “I guess I need a really narrow funnel or something. What a fucking stupid design!”
Last year I was putting together a basketball hoop for my son, rather complex set of multiple steps, with springs involved and obviously some long pieces. I already knew I wasn't going to be ready before I had to leave for the movie theater, but I really wanted to finish this particular step, but then I noticed that I had assembled two pieces in the wrong order. Instead of backtracking, I tried to take a shortcut when suddenly one of the pieces attached to the aforementioned springs snapped and hit me right below my eye. It was a painful moviegoing experience.
Another one: I used the bottom drawer of an oven to store a plastic tray. I also tried to bake mochi (a rather liquid dough) in a pan with a removable bottom.
Many years ago I used to play bass in a band. While writing our own highly insightful songs about topics such as fish fingers & lemon milkshakes (key point: why can you get a lime milkshake, but not a lemon milkshake?), we were doing covers to fill in the gaps.
One of those was Roxanne by The Police, and I was the only one who had the required castrato genes to be able to sing it.
As we started playing Roxanne in front of a hundred people or so, I couldn't help but notice that something sounded off. My brain could detect the "sounds offness" aspect, but not well enough to work out exactly what was off while I was trying to sing. I glanced at the guitarist next to me - he had a worried look on his face - but I couldn't work out what was wrong till we finished the song.
If you've ever tried playing an instrument and singing at the same time, you need to learn to play on autopilot so you can focus on your singing. Fine in theory. THIS ONE TIME, I'd started playing the bass 1 fret higher by accident (it might've started on a G, but I started on Ab instead); because I was relying solely on muscle memory to play while singing, I'd played the entire song one semitone higher than everyone else.
...My last time singing in front of an audience
That’s awesome. Anyone complain just say it’s jazz.
To be fair, some ovens have a storage drawer there and some have a broiler. I learned this in college when my housemate (who was a drummer, go figure) was yelling about the new oven the landlord put in that day. He said his steak wasn’t cooking, so I suggested from another room that he give it more time. 10 minutes later he yells again, so I went to the kitchen and opened the oven door. I mentioned to him that his steak wasn’t in there, and he looked at me like I was crazy and told me it was in the broiler. I had never seen an oven with a broiler below, my family always had ovens with storage drawers there. Apparently guys family always had ovens with broilers there. Also, the broiling pan was in the storage drawer, to be slightly fair to him. But I did ask him if he noticed it wasn’t at all hot. We’ll call that one a draw.
Now, the time he decided to change his own oil in his mustang…we lived on a dead end and I came home from school to a whole street full of smoke. I pull up to the house, and see that it is coming from his car, which was on ramps and oil was FLOWING from the tailpipe. He said, “Don’t ask,” which is if course, a cue to ask. Turns out he slightly overestimated the amount of oil needed. He thought when you changed your oil you need to put the whole case in after you drain the oil.
I asked him if he noticed that around quart 5 oil was probably not really going in, and he said he thought that always happened. Final total? Somehow, he managed to get 11 quarts in there (oil cap says 4 quarts max). Turns out he had drained it and when I came home, the car had been running for about an hour burning off oil.
The car lasted him another 4 years though. It was about 9 years old on the day of said oil incident.
Oh, did I mention that we had the ramps because I had purchased them a year before, determined to change my own oil instead of going to oil change places? I drove right off the ramps the first time and never tried to change my own oil again. Had to lift up my car to get the ramps out, no idea how I did that.