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  • edited May 2023

    @fearandloathing said:
    Can I ask why AUM is used instead of like Cubasis 3? I see so many videos with AUM as the host and if Cubasis 3 does multicore support, is there some advantage to using AUM?

    And, can you record in AUM? (Cubasis is a DAW but as a new iOS user, I’m confused because I haven’t seen anyone using Hilda in cubasis to record) or is AUM more for live purposes?

    Sorry for a noob question because clearly everyone has this app but me

    bear in mind those are just my personal opinions, affected by myvpeeaonal workflow:

    why cubasis not for live jam

    • AUM it’s more immediate for live jam where you want quickly switch between plugins and eventually see more plugins on screen at once to tweak things quickly here and there..
    • to quickly add new plugins (AUM plugin picker is much better than than one in cubasis
    • midi/audio routing in AUM (what can be send where) is muchnmofe advanced and you set set uo it more quickly from various places which saves time during live jam .. for example you an sent from one midi source to multiple plugins which is not possible in cubasis at all

    why cubasis not for production

    • don’t like piano roll, editing, UI in general, it is extremely clunky for me .. adding notes, moving notes, literally everything. don’t like UI
    • really hate automation editing, it looks ugly and it is clunky
    • i use lot multi level grouping of tracks which is not possible at all in cubasis
    • in general indon’t like that all elements of app are still on screen and you need all the time resize the parts whitch you wamt to use to get emough size on screen (i mean sequencer vs. active track settings on left vs. piano roll vs. mixer vs. onscreen keybard. I like when i can simply switch between those views with button and they automatically use whole screen. For same reason i never found my way to incorporate Drambo into my workflow even theough i wanted a lot)

    As much as i wouls like to use Cubasis because of it’s multicore support, those things are for me showstopper.

    @RJB said:

    @dendy said:
    This thing is very addictive… just opened AUM and started adding stuff … 3 Hilda’s at the end .. probably will be boring to listen as whole (it has 15 minutes) but uploading anyway, consider it as sound tweaking demo and rewind at will 🤣

    Awesome demo! Convinced me I need this synth, thanks!

    glad to gear it, that was my purpose to help decide people who are on the fence :-) it’s really worth the money.

  • @fearandloathing said:
    Can I ask why AUM is used instead of like Cubasis 3? I see so many videos with AUM as the host and if Cubasis 3 does multicore support, is there some advantage to using AUM?

    And, can you record in AUM? (Cubasis is a DAW but as a new iOS user, I’m confused because I haven’t seen anyone using Hilda in cubasis to record) or is AUM more for live purposes?

    Sorry for a noob question because clearly everyone has this app but me

    Look here:

  • edited May 2023

    I spent hours to use it and it push up my creativity and directly I am working on 2 ambient and House tracks. Any crashes so far.

    I am not focused now on tech or a whish list I create music now this is what Hilda is for creating music. I record on NS2 and Cubasis 3.5 as like for most of the plug-ins GarageBand is not a good AU host (that’s Apple). I use AUM if my imagination need it too. Daw are just tools. They don’t create music.

    The manual is a good start but you need to use Hilda a lot to find function that are hidden. More you use it much you go deeper.

    Yes I know I use synth and apps primarily to make music 😂 . When you twist a knob no parameter that don’t stop me I prefer blind and using my ear. Hilda is not perfect and I love it as it is as I can create music and sounds incredible good and inspiring.

    My only whish list will be to have the image of shape of osc waves changing when I turn the knobs but it on the whishlist of many of you so nothing new.

    Hilda learn me something, I forget about Worflow , I forget about anything and I create madly focus on the great deep sound of Hilda.

    Now forget about tech and be only creative deeper you go in Hilda deeper you will discover more and more and hidden gems and functionality as Hilda is simple to use but far more complex that you think.

    Before saying , I want that, that …. After using it for 5 minutes or 1 hour , use it at leat 20 hours , close your eyes sometimes to ear the inspiring sounds you create. As someone say Bram created first the synth for himself , the synth is so great because of that and it fill the gap in iOS.

    It seems to me that many people here buy synth just for the tech not to create , in iOS we have the chance to have wonderful different synth and many create nothing. My life was all about creating first as a dev I create algorithms that many of you use in their everyday life and now that I don’t work anymore so now first I create my music for myself and sometimes to share it with you.

  • Oh yeah I’m loving this …

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Uq8kG_mnqQ0?feature=share

    Warning :gets a bit loud

  • edited May 2023

    The thing with Hilda is that it isn’t shomething that you can’t do with Audulus or Mirack (in fact, I have some patches in Audulus where the signal and modulations are similar, but with more complex routing) but it is fun precisely for this limitation.

    Maybe I’ll use Hilda as a subtle Au fx or a layer under other layers.

    The sound and capabilities of 0-coast/Strega are miles and miles away. But it is wonderful have this on iOS

  • @fearandloathing said:
    Can I ask why AUM is used instead of like Cubasis 3? I see so many videos with AUM as the host and if Cubasis 3 does multicore support, is there some advantage to using AUM?

    And, can you record in AUM? (Cubasis is a DAW but as a new iOS user, I’m confused because I haven’t seen anyone using Hilda in cubasis to record) or is AUM more for live purposes?

    Sorry for a noob question because clearly everyone has this app but me

    AUM is just soooo flexible. It’s very easy to reload your FX chains. It handles midi FX better than any other host, as far as I know, and yes you can record any channel or you can buss your channels to a master buss etc and record just that. But, no inbuilt automation, which is a major disadvantage. Though you can maybe use something like Atom2 for that. No master overview of all the mixer channels on just one small screen, which is a pain point for many. You can use the 4Pockets Midi Mixer app to do that though, or that new 4Pockets app. AUM is not as good for modulation as apeMatrix, which has an inbuilt high resolution midi lfo system (means that unlike regular midi it doesn’t break things into just 128 steps, so better for doing, say, very very smooth automated filter sweeps.

    AUM or apeMatrix are good for people who like doing live jams, sound design, weird ambient stuff etc. Cubasis is probably a better choice if you like making more traditional, linear stuff.

  • @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

  • @Fear2Stop said:
    Oh yeah I’m loving this …

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Uq8kG_mnqQ0?feature=share

    Warning :gets a bit loud

    Super and in GB

  • @BerlinFx said:

    @Fear2Stop said:
    Oh yeah I’m loving this …

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Uq8kG_mnqQ0?feature=share

    Warning :gets a bit loud

    Super and in GB

    Yup…any bugs I had earlier disappeared when I ignored the presets and just started doing stuff from the init patch … played it using the onscreen keyboard on my phone, really responsive, no lag or anything , then I started tweaking the sound. It’s WAY more versatile than even I anticipated!

  • @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

  • @brambos said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

    Just so you can find presets where you are just using the delay and filter, for example, easily? Without having to add anything to the name to remind yourself? I think it would actually maybe be useful to have several submenus in presets:

    Drones
    Sequences
    Keyboard
    FX only
    Mixed

    Or a tagging system, where you could tag things. Leads, basses, modulated LP filter, etc
    Again, I guess this can all be done with using your own naming conventions

  • edited May 2023

    Actually, if I had a request from @brambos it would be: a hardware version, please :smile:

    YES !! YES !!!!

    Actuslly this is not that impossible, with Teensy is quite realistic to do such thing :-)

  • @Gavinski said:

    @fearandloathing said:
    Can I ask why AUM is used instead of like Cubasis 3? I see so many videos with AUM as the host and if Cubasis 3 does multicore support, is there some advantage to using AUM?

    And, can you record in AUM? (Cubasis is a DAW but as a new iOS user, I’m confused because I haven’t seen anyone using Hilda in cubasis to record) or is AUM more for live purposes?

    Sorry for a noob question because clearly everyone has this app but me

    AUM is just soooo flexible. It’s very easy to reload your FX chains. It handles midi FX better than any other host, as far as I know, and yes you can record any channel or you can buss your channels to a master buss etc and record just that. But, no inbuilt automation, which is a major disadvantage. Though you can maybe use something like Atom2 for that. No master overview of all the mixer channels on just one small screen, which is a pain point for many. You can use the 4Pockets Midi Mixer app to do that though, or that new 4Pockets app. AUM is not as good for modulation as apeMatrix, which has an inbuilt high resolution midi lfo system (means that unlike regular midi it doesn’t break things into just 128 steps, so better for doing, say, very very smooth automated filter sweeps.

    AUM or apeMatrix are good for people who like doing live jams, sound design, weird ambient stuff etc. Cubasis is probably a better choice if you like making more traditional, linear stuff.

    Agree with all this. I’ve never used apeMatrix but it does seem great.

  • @dendy said:

    Actually, if I had a request from @brambos it would be: a hardware version, please :smile:

    YES !! YES !!!!

    Actuslly this is not that impossible, with Teensy is quite realistic to do such thing :-)

    Haha.. yes... well, it was designed to be the hardware semimodular I'd love to own. With some minor tweaks I suppose it should be possible to hardwarificate this design pretty much 1:1 B)

    I could do the software bits, but the for making the hardware I'd be out of my depth pretty quickly :D

  • Bram! Fantastisch..!!!

  • @brambos said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

    very true, but i have a feeling your new beastie will have people generating a MASSIVE amount of presets for it and having more than one User preset folder would become a bit of a necessity, or is that already possible?

  • @RockySmalls said:

    @brambos said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

    very true, but i have a feeling your new beastie will have people generating a MASSIVE amount of presets for it and having more than one User preset folder would become a bit of a necessity, or is that already possible?

    I prefer tags than folders , I can imagine that we all share some of our presets too or send them to @brambos to had the best ones as factory presets.

    As Hilda is a great presets building factory too it is something to think 🤔

  • Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

  • @brambos said:
    Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

    That sounds excellent! I’ve made a dozen or more already.

  • @brambos said:
    Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

    Interested

  • @gkillmaster said:

    @Krupa said:
    Thankfully it’s not the Strega emulation that Bram said it wasn’t, it’s easier to get musical results, and probably far more flexible in that territory, especially the massively featured complex oscillator. But, the Strega has qualities that this doesn’t really get close to, especially in the delay department… great to see such great stuff inspired by other great stuff…

    If you feel like elaborating, I’d love to her more about the comparison. So far Hilda is truly a dream come true for me and I’ve had Strega on my mind since it was released. My first reaction to Hilda was wondering how much I will use my 0-Coast/0-Ctrl setup now :)

    Both this and Strega are great and definitely share some similarities, mostly in terms of signal flow, but the parts themselves are a little different (as far as I can tell)

    The oscillator in Strega is a bit simpler, a single ‘tone’ control that covers both timbre/shape, and folding, as opposed to Hilda’s three discrete controls. Hilda also has control over the sub ratio which would be a really good touch on the Strega tbh

    I think Strega has a modulation source that isn’t on Hilda, a mysterious kinda random one that can be patched, dialled, or touched into several places. I might be wrong on that, but Hilda has the extra effects as more than compromise…

    The main difference is the delay, on Hilda it’s definitely an effect, a very strong and lovely effect to be sure, but it’s not integrated directly into the sound in the way it is in Strega. For instance, the filter comes after it on the Strega, so it kinda gets squished into the sound in a different way (Though I wish it were a tilt type one rather than just a low pass tbh). Also, when you dial the time down past the ten o clock position in the Strega, there’s some sort of extreme feedback of noise that really builds a character I’ve not heard anywhere else - I’ve been experimenting with an old bed delay unit I’ve had for donkeys, feeding it back in itself and it’s got close but not anywhere near as interesting yet…

    They’re both great, and thanks to this getting trailed the last few weeks, I’ve made some time to get deeper into the Strega as it was lying in a slightly embarrassing state of I’m not quite sure about it yet, but now I am 😀

    A couple of podcasts that inspired me as a budding instrument maker to get a Strega in order to decipher and influence me…

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/podular-modcast/id1363821591?i=1000507342954

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hanging-out-with-audiophiles/id1279148418?i=1000569154460

    This article is also really interesting

    https://www.synthux.academy/blog/make-noise

  • @brambos said:
    Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

    Heck yeah!

  • @brambos said:
    Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

    i’m in !

  • Not loading in apeMatrix or AUM on iPhone 6 ...
    Or iPad Air both iOS 12.5.7

  • Try restarting your device, that's definitely an ios bug and nothing to do with Hilda itself, for sure. > @id_23 said:

    Not loading in apeMatrix or AUM on iPhone 6 ...
    Or iPad Air both iOS 12.5.7

  • @BerlinFx said:

    @RockySmalls said:

    @brambos said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

    very true, but i have a feeling your new beastie will have people generating a MASSIVE amount of presets for it and having more than one User preset folder would become a bit of a necessity, or is that already possible?

    I prefer tags than folders , I can imagine that we all share some of our presets too or send them to @brambos to had the best ones as factory presets.

    I prefer user-named folders personally, multiple tags just gets messy IMHO, and most of my presets won’t fit under standard terms like ‘bass’.

  • @monz0id said:

    @BerlinFx said:

    @RockySmalls said:

    @brambos said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Qwesto said:
    @brambos

    I've just recognized that there is no difference between Synth and FX patches, which really should be there. Nearly saved over a synth preset, of mine 😅

    +1, definitely, well spotted

    Why would that be a problem? The capabilities between synth and effect are identical, except in FX you can have external input. I don’t think there’s any issue when they’re used interchangeably?

    very true, but i have a feeling your new beastie will have people generating a MASSIVE amount of presets for it and having more than one User preset folder would become a bit of a necessity, or is that already possible?

    I prefer tags than folders , I can imagine that we all share some of our presets too or send them to @brambos to had the best ones as factory presets.

    I prefer user-named folders personally, multiple tags just gets messy IMHO, and most of my presets won’t fit under standard terms like ‘bass’.

    I can manage user-named folders. It not a problem.

  • Ipad iphone ios15, 16, standalone and in hosts. Do this - put a knob to a value, lets say "50". Take finger off the screen. Then try to make it "51", or "49" , moving knob as slow as possible, and notice how the value changes. Can you make it go from 50 right to 51 witout jumping to +/-5 value? Can someone try this please? Thnank you

    Sorry to be annoying but can someone please check this one. I will write to support but maybe someone else can also confim. I have this issue with all BramBos apps, older ones like ruismaker etc

  • @brambos said:
    Some time ago we had a Forum Presets Project for Ripplemaker (they're now part of the factory presets).

    We could do something like that for Hilda if people are interested in contributing a preset or two?

    I've done very usable ones already I'm in too

  • @rvr said:

    Ipad iphone ios15, 16, standalone and in hosts. Do this - put a knob to a value, lets say "50". Take finger off the screen. Then try to make it "51", or "49" , moving knob as slow as possible, and notice how the value changes. Can you make it go from 50 right to 51 witout jumping to +/-5 value? Can someone try this please? Thnank you

    Sorry to be annoying but can someone please check this one. I will write to support but maybe someone else can also confim. I have this issue with all BramBos apps, older ones like ruismaker etc

    I have yet tested on IPad 4 iOS 16 latest one only for Hilda and inside Cubasis, NS2 , stand alone and even GB only this morning for GB (europe time zone ) an I can’t reproduce your problems.

    Other members of the forum with ios15 and other IPad can try .

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