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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The thing is, you could have the best iPad on the market, LP, tons of apps, but if you're a rubbish musician then you're not making good music. It's as simple as that. It's not about having the best gear, it's about your talents as a musician and producer, and how you use the equipment you have. I could go out and buy a 60s Strat but I ain't playing like Hendrix. Sure, having good gear is a bonus, but ultimately it's about your ability. George Martin and the Beatles did wonders with just four tracks.
And what are your thoughts after 2 weeks?
Haven't got to so much it offers... But this is what makes Logic Pro for iPad, Logical...
Yes this and Drum Machine Designer are the main reasons I MIGHT go ahead and get the subscription. A lot of nice features, probably the most comprehensive DAW on ios, but there are some caveats for sure, and a bit of a learning curve for me honestly, I have very limited time. The Ui is a little clunky to me and the certain AUV3s and midi routing not working the way I’m accustomed to (or at all) kills my creativity. I’ve spent the better part of a year basically crafting my own DAW in loopy pro and with various plugins and whatnot that achieve close to all the functionality (often more) that Logic Pro has.
But I’ve already put in the work. Someone else who hasn’t may have a long road ahead of them if they want most of what Logic Pro has to offer. It’s very good, hopefully it gets a lot better. I think it will in a lot of ways. If they don’t try to gatekeep and attempt to work in the current ecosystem a bit more, and fix some bugs and midi routing.
@Robin2 said:
As I said in another thread… I’ve been using GarageBand, NS2, Cubasis, and even a little Gadget. While there weren’t many features I wanted that at least one of them didn’t have, none of them had all the features that were most important to me. But Logic does. It’s really tempting to redo tunes I made in those other DAWs in Logic, because I’m seeing ways I could improve them.
But I need to stay focused on finishing the last tune for the EP rather than revisiting the ones that are done.
I know that Logic isn’t the best DAW for everyone, but it seems to be the best one for me.
This is what I’ve been saying in several other threads, musicians/producers could make great music with just four or eight tracks on tape…
Look at Nat King Cole early 1950’s - great recording, great sound etc etc, and that with probably low quality microphones (compare todays)…
Saw on another music forum another day, a thread about Logic Pro for iPad, there was a bloke who said he can’t use LP4i because he had 1600 (!) plugins he couldn’t use on the iPad…
Hmmm… It’s comical, he use 1600 plugins???
Low quality mics on high end sessions in the 50s? Absolutely not! You’ve heard of the Neumann U47 right? That’s 47 as in 1947…
Also hunt down the Produce Like A Pro videos on Les Paul for background on early multi-tracking.
From the 50s quality isn’t lacking, it’s all about how many tracks and how much processing.
Yeah, you’re certainly right!
But what I mean is that recordings and editings can be done on few tracks and still marvellous…
If we can’t make great music on Logic Pro for iPad on stock instruments, it ain’t limitation to the software/hardware that matters, it’s we untalented…
I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with being able to round-trip 100% between mac and iPad.
If you have a big desktop rig with TB of sample libraries you’re going to struggle to be mobile even with a MBP. Or another desktop Mac come to that. 1600 plugins would be a nightmare to keep in sync.
The licensing of plugins on desktop is hard enough with one machine sometimes. There’s quite a lot of devs that only allow one install on ilok too. And that’s all I want to say about the evils of ilok
One of the things I like about having Logic on my iPad is I can easily use all the plugins I don’t have on desktop. All it takes is a couple of taps and you can bounce them to audio and open on the Mac instantly.
Going back and forth with a work in progress project between iPad and Mac for anything other than small projects will be an exercise in frustration.
TLDR. it’s obvious there will be lots of problems round tripping. But there are also lots of advantages to having Logic on both systems even when you don’t go back and forth relentlessly.
Concentrate on the positives and it’s all gravy. Some people seem to be far more interested if finding out what something can't do and ignore all the good things. I'm not talking about Logic here either :-)
As for the Beatles only having four tracks to record Sergeant Pepper, they may have only had 4 track machines, But the Did have:
-- multiple machines (ableist surprisingly not even state of the art at the time),
-- An at the time unprecedented 700 hours of studio time to make the album
-- A fantastic sounding space
-- highly qualified audio engineers
-- one of the greatest producer/artist pairings of all time
-- two of the greatest songwriters of all time
-- A third songwriter that wrote some of their best songs
-- Ringo. (not meant sarcastically)
-- Lashings of tea and toast.
That could all be distilled into one word. "Talent".
If you have Nat Kind Cole's voice. you don't need to master the vocoder or learn how to polish a turd.
The main thing it offers for me is another workflow. I was doing just fine without it and likely would keep being fine without it but it does provide another way to work and get the juices flowing. Also potentially great DAW for mastering stems recorded from AUM or other sources. Plus some of the built in synths and effects are great.
@klownshed @Wyvern @RajahP @emc87 @fisherro @MadGav @ErrkaPetti @HotStrange Thanks to all for contributing.
@RajahP - What are my thoughts after two weeks? Well, as a non Mac user, Logic on iPad doesn’t offer any ‘start here, finish there’ benefits so I’m looking at it as an iPad only DAW. As such, it’s undoubtedly a quality product but I don’t find enough unique selling points to convince me I really need it to be honest: the other DAWs (and plugins) I have do everything really well and, as @Wyvern says, the tools don’t make you more talented! As I asked in my original post in this thread, are people now producing masterpieces by the dozen because they were restricted until the release of Logic for iPad? I doubt it.
I think the interface is rather awkward and busy and I’m not inspired to learn how to use it. I love the fact that it runs in portrait mode though - I just prefer holding my iPad in portrait orientation. I’m also really impressed by the Sculpture physical modelling synth - I wish that existed as a separate app to buy!
All in all though, add the above to the fact that it’s a subscription, and no, I won’t be subscribing after the free trial period ends. To answer my own question: I don’t really see there’s anything truly significant which Logic for iPad would allow me to do which I can’t do without it. Maybe it’s the round-trip compatibility with Logic on Mac which is the true killer feature?
That's kind of the point I was making earlier. You don't need all the bells and whistles but you do need some ability.
We keep forgetting that this is ver 1. I don’t know if there is any thing like it out there, but you can throw anything at it, Apple Loops, StepSeq Patterns and it stay in Key/Scale to the project.. And I think I figured out how to have your own patterns lock to the project key.. make sure you created pattern is in the right Key/Scale before saving..
Let’s see what an update brings.
Wish Bloc Waves, AudioShare did Apple Loops…
Amazing Production App.. wow.