MolliLooper by Mollilabs (Released)

Poppadocrock

@HotStrange said:

@Poppadocrock said:
May 15th is what the developers YouTube video said. I’m dying to know the price so I can budget this with 2 other apps high on list.

Which other apps you planning on getting? I’m in the same boat, though the looper is the only thing I’m really eyeing at the moment.

In no order

Molli Looper - does depend on price but if higher might take a little longer
Hilda
Cascade
Audioscope or true pan or both

There’s a few others, there always is, lol… but those are basically the top few.

HotStrange

@Poppadocrock said:

@HotStrange said:

@Poppadocrock said:
May 15th is what the developers YouTube video said. I’m dying to know the price so I can budget this with 2 other apps high on list.

Which other apps you planning on getting? I’m in the same boat, though the looper is the only thing I’m really eyeing at the moment.

In no order

Molli Looper - does depend on price but if higher might take a little longer
Hilda
Cascade
Audioscope or true pan or both

There’s a few others, there always is, lol… but those are basically the top few.

I’m hoping Molli will be ~$15 or less 🤞

Can’t recommend Cascade, Hilda, and True Pan enough. All 3 are nearly equally amazing. Haven’t tried Audioscope just because I have MidiMixer which can already do the main thing I’d be using Scope for.

robosardine

@Ailerom said:

@robosardine said:
Does the area you want to loop need to be first selected by moving the markers do you think - or can you just press and live loop whenever you feel the urge?

So, yes and no. If you tap recording to access the looping audio it will be looping something according to the selected loop setting you have selected. You then then move that around to find what you would like to be looping and how big a selection of audio.

If you turn off snap to grid you can select wherever you want to loop which is what I do in standalone mode.

I could be wrong but I think of it this way. Headphones on or in a DAW (et.al.) you may be more likely to use the metronome or snap to keep in time with other elements. The way I use it is to just set it running and every so often I set it looping and with snap turned off, make the loop where I want for practice, jamming, etc.

Thanks - I was just trying to work out of it would work in a similar way to a Korg Kaoss pad looper. Are you familiar with them?
Edit - I’ve just noticed it’s been released.

Kashi

Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

celtic_elk

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mollilooper/id1622063262

$4.99 in the US App Store.

robosardine

@Kashi said:
Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

You mean like this?

Kashi

@robosardine said:

@Kashi said:
Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

You mean like this?

Exactly like that!

Kashi

From the App store : "Loop timing is synced to host clock, and can be adjusted from multi-bar loops right down to 16th note drills" - which sounds exactly like what I was describing above. Can anyone confirm if loops can be UNsynced?

MisplacedDevelopment

@Kashi said:
From the App store : "Loop timing is synced to host clock, and can be adjusted from multi-bar loops right down to 16th note drills" - which sounds exactly like what I was describing above. Can anyone confirm if loops can be UNsynced?

You need the host to be running to let you do any looping of the incoming audio (puts out an error otherwise). If the host is running and you capture a buffer then you can turn off the grid snap and create your own loop region manually with the left and right markers.

Edit: Once you have something looping then you can turn off the transport and it will continue to play the loop and let you move the loop region around, though you are given the error message each time you do this.

ninobeatz

@Kashi said:
From the App store : "Loop timing is synced to host clock, and can be adjusted from multi-bar loops right down to 16th note drills" - which sounds exactly like what I was describing above. Can anyone confirm if loops can be UNsynced?

They are metronome locked. It will sync to host tempo

Kashi

Thanks @MisplacedDevelopment and @ninobeatz - although your respective answers contradict each other no?

ninobeatz

@Kashi said:
Thanks @MisplacedDevelopment and @ninobeatz - although your respective answers contradict each other no?

@MisplacedDevelopment is correct here after looking into this further. Apologies

MisplacedDevelopment

@Kashi said:
Thanks @MisplacedDevelopment and @ninobeatz - although your respective answers contradict each other no?

You need the transport to be running so the app can work out how long a beat is. Not sure about standalone mode.

Kashi

@ninobeatz said:

@Kashi said:
Thanks @MisplacedDevelopment and @ninobeatz - although your respective answers contradict each other no?

@MisplacedDevelopment is correct here after looking into this further. Apologies

Cool. Thanks . I'll wait until there are some videos up, to get a better idea of its capabilities...

BroCoast

@Kashi said:
Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

Yeah that’s basically what it does but it’s real specialty is being a retrospective looper. Now if only it could do reverse playback it would be perfect.

Svetlovska

First report, messing with it now: MolliLooper is very simple, completely intuitive to use, does exactly what I want from a Looper, and no more. It is always recording, so stick it in an AUM channel, noodle away, then hit any of the presets in the app to get an immediate beat synced loop of 1 to 32 beats. You can tweak the loop start and end points individually, or slide the whole looped section up and down the captured livestream to a part you like. It is super easy, super-intuitive, and all I need.

I’ve got Loopy Pro, but never got on with it, too much complexity, and seemed to require actual, gasp, timing from me to make it work. Gauss is great, but I use it differently, and Enso has its moments too. L7 was close, but crashy and again, more complex than it needed to be. But this is just - simply - brilliant!

I can see me having one of these in every audio channel from now on as part of my standard workflow.

ninobeatz

@BroCoast said:

@Kashi said:
Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

Yeah that’s basically what it does but it’s real specialty is being a retrospective looper. Now if only it could do reverse playback it would be perfect.

Agreed..reverse playback would have been a nice addition

Jumpercollins

Enjoyed beta testing this one so a definite buy from me. It’s simplicity is appealing.

Kashi

@BroCoast said:

@Kashi said:
Am curious about this, but I don't want to buy an app that just does that incredibly irritating Fatboy Slim thing, where "Banana banana banana" becomes "bana bana bana" then "ba ba ba ba ba bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"...

Yeah that’s basically what it does but it’s real specialty is being a retrospective looper. Now if only it could do reverse playback it would be perfect.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll skip it.

Stuntman_mike

@Svetlovska said:
First report, messing with it now: MolliLooper is very simple, completely intuitive to use, does exactly what I want from a Looper, and no more. It is always recording, so stick it in an AUM channel, noodle away, then hit any of the presets in the app to get an immediate beat synced loop of 1 to 32 beats. You can tweak the loop start and end points individually, or slide the whole looped section up and down the captured livestream to a part you like. It is super easy, super-intuitive, and all I need.

I’ve got Loopy Pro, but never got on with it, too much complexity, and seemed to require actual, gasp, timing from me to make it work. Gauss is great, but I use it differently, and Enso has its moments too. L7 was close, but crashy and again, more complex than it needed to be. But this is just - simply - brilliant!

I can see me having one of these in every audio channel from now on as part of my standard workflow.

Sounds promising from your honest assessment!
I too have all the loopers and even though this app is only $4.99, I’m hesitant too inject more GAS into my bloated workflow 😂
This seems very straight forward, without much fluff, I just feel hesitant that I’m missing out on learning more about a looper I already have that can do the same thing and maybe more…

Jumpercollins

Just be aware in AUM if you close down a project then open last state, it doesn’t save the audio inside the looper unlike Loopy Pro.

Svetlovska

@Jumpercollins : Good to know! That’s not a dealbreaker for me, as I can always do a FilePlayer loop and feed it back in, but, sure, it would be cool if it preserved the current loop inside and instance on save inside AUM?

Robin2

What do the symbol buttons and the chemical name abbreviations do? Select loop length? What else?

BroCoast

@Robin2 said:
What do the symbol buttons and the chemical name abbreviations do? Select loop length? What else?

They’re all just loop length. The 4 symbols to the left are subdivisions. (Less than a quarter note.)

Robin2

Thanks @BroCoast .

Stuntman_mike

Got it! I like the “happy accidents” coming from it 🙌

Kashi

@Robin2 said:
What do the symbol buttons and the chemical name abbreviations do? Select loop length? What else?

They change which Chemical Brothers track your track will sound like

Gavinski

7-min long spoken walkthrough vid and giveaway here:

Harro

To get a better understanding of what this looper can do, see Dougs video:

simonnowis

i like simple )

for me, i wanted a button (maybe where the logo/help is) that records my selected loop to audio

i have a nice piano loop going, and to record it ...