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Logic's Live Loops as an alternative to Loopy Pro
What do you think?
I have owned all the iterations of Loopy, including the original non-HD version. I really like what Michael is doing with Loopy Pro, and I'm happy to keep paying for maintenance and upgrades.
Loopy Pro does a lot more than Live Loops, but for someone who mainly uses Loopy to record synths and guitars, I wonder whether Live Loops might do just as well for tracking and comping. (In the past, I used Loopy for tracking, then exported the resulting clips to Auria for arrangement and processing.)
The reason I'm even thinking in this direction is because Logic is clumsy at importing and exporting audio. You can't drag Loopy Pro clips into a Logic track: you have to export the Loopy clips first, then open Files or Sample Crate, move it to the side, then open a project in Logic, then slide your files app into place, THEN drag your clips into Logic. It's not hard, just distracting. Keeping it all in Logic seems like it would streamline the process.
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I live in Live Loops in Logic Pro on iPad and just record my internal and external sequences i captured to the timeline when I’m ready to arrange the track and it’s working out great.
Having access to Midi or Patterns in the Live Loop files is just great. Also being able to have a proper sample slicer as an instrument i can Loop is also a big time saver for the way i work.
Test it out for a month and see how it fits the way you work. I’m all in now with it.
Also one of the features i love the most is having the ability to bounce a MIDI clip to Audio and have it automatically set the loop point for a seamless loop. Just amazing.
Thanks for starting the discussion. I’m on the fence about whether to buy Loopy Pro or Logic. Does anyone else have experience using both? I want a looping pedal function similar to a Boss Rc505.
If looping pedal functionality is what you want, then Loopy Pro is the way to go.
Yeah there is even a 505-esqe sample project in loopy pro. Personally I appreciate Loopy Pro much more than Logic.
Just decided to hold off on the Logic subscription after two months. Great app but not suited for live performance as much as MY Loopy Pro/AUM combo. Logic is, obviously, more of a studio production tool.
Loops can’t be chained unless recorded to timeline a real bummer for me.
Also songs can’t be chained as Loppy does you have to manually load songs not very convenient on stage for loops works. Loopy also have follow action this is a must for my usage.
For me loopy is fat superior in many ways depend on how you use your app though.
For live performance Loopy Pro, no doubt. Nothing comes close. Extremely configurable, you can set it up just how like. Integration with external controllers is unbeatable.
BUT if looping is just a way to get down ideas which you then want to keep working on as a song, Logic or Zenbeats save you the hassle of export/import.
As I was writing this I realize that one of my biggest gripes with Loopy Pro is that it’s sort of a pain to add more clips or tracks. Say you have a template with 4 colors/tracks and you want to add another one… the screen is already filled up, you need to remove some donuts, assign a new color… BTW I’m not a fan of the “color” concept in Loopy, I prefer the traditional track or channel strip way.
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There is no need to remove donuts to add more colors/tracks. You can add rows and/or columns to the layout if you want to expand it.
My layout is full to the brim. I have colors for: drums, bass, guitar 1, guitar 2, synths, vocals… plus scene buttons, mute/solo, panning… it’s a template so you try to accommodate a common scenario. But I always find that I need to change/add something. You can expand it if you have room to expand. I guess I could use an additional page but I need to see all the clips on a single screen. Actually I would like to be able to scroll and have the page be as long as I need.
I like how Loopy looks, I love how configurable it is. But there’s always a downside. I often find myself craving for a more traditional “track” approach ala Ableton, Zenbeats, Logic clips. Just add a track and go. Whereas in loopy you have to always adhere to the color concept, which I’m not a huge fan of, but I guess it’s an integral part of loopy being so flexible.
@tahiche : to clarify, the issue isn’t that the page can’t be expanded, but that you would like to be able to add things without the existing elements being resized to accommodate the changes?
If you haven’t done it already, I suggest visiting the roadmap page and adding the suggestion.
How is scrolling different from adding another page (not being snide, I honestly don't know).
As @espiegel123 said
You can just keep expanding the page, but every thing else gets slightly smaller to accommodate new elements, which by design is understandable
If not then I guess another page is the next option, the pages can be midi mapped so you can jump quickly between
I don’t know how else loopy could acive this due to the limitations of your screen size
Color tracks could be far better if it’ll always show it’s label then we’ll have best of both world. Actually it’s very confusing when sending a trac to a color bus when there’s no associated label
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In which situation is it confusing? Did you know that you can name the color buses on the mixer?
I mean when you wanna assign color I didn’t know where it’ll goes
Even worst in this case.
If you tap, on the pencil icon for the color, you will see its label.
Do you want the group names visible for all the colors at the bottom or just for the active one?
The idea is to see all labels so I an chose the correct one, for now I click randomly on the pencil icon until I found the correct bus. Honestly it’s not ideal and ver time consuming when you want to assign multiple clips to different busses.
Like I said, I’m not sure that the things that I find inconvenient at times can or should be addressed. For example, about adding things: A scrollable area?. That would solve the issue of adding as many elements as you want while not leaving the page. But it would probably spoil the experience in some other way. Scrolling wouldn’t be too elegant. You remember when we had all those scrolling diva on web pages?. They’ve been mostly decommissioned for a reason.
Deviation from a well-thought and coherent system to try to accommodate other use cases often results in a mess. I don’t love the “colors” concept. But can I provide a better alternative?. Not without compromising the flexibility and personalization.
Bought Loopy Pro today. Honestly, the vibrancy of the user forums was a big factor in the decision because chasing down answers to questions is so important during the learning curve.
If you haven't done so, add your request to the Loopy Pro Roadmap site (after checking to see if it has already been suggested)
https://roadmap.loopypro.com/
This is a great idea. Adding it to the next build
Awesome , Micheal.. —signed Logic Pro user
Live Loops in Logic are DOA because you can't map a button to "clear all".
This makes it effectively useless for people that um, actually want to... live loop..
I know some people with preprepared loops can work with this, cool, kudos to them - but some people play instruments, and want to play them live, and loop what they're really play, live, at bars/gigs/weddings and whatnot.
Logic, without a "clear all", is as dead as Ableton's session view and Bitwig's clip launcher for people looking to.. loop real instruments, live, in a setting where you would uh, change songs. On the fly.
LP completely mops the floor with everything else, really, for a gig-ready looping software. Wish it was on Mac.
It obviously depends on your use case, but for me, LP is an actual looping software - the others aren't, even Ableton Live with its session view that is highly praised, isn't really easy to use in a pub setting because there's no clear all option.
You CAN set up Ableton to work beautifully as a looping software, with its looper plugin, where you can assign its "clear" button to what you want.. Ableton Live can be an awesome looper, but its big-time DIY and Loopy Pro is probably better than it when it comes to looper VS looper.
Ableton has an advantage though, because it's on Mac. I can use the power of my MacBook to easily use a bunch of virtual instruments, guitar rig, etc.. no problem at all, oh yeah - the availability of some products, I can't even use my NI Komplete suite on an iPad..
Once Loopy Pro comes to Mac, I think it'll be game over for everything else, for me. I seriously, seriously wish it was on Mac. I know it's on the roadmap.
IDK what exactly the plans are, but if Loopy Pro winds up as an AUv3 and can be integrated with DAWs on Mac, then you could use it as "a looper" software within Ableton Live or whatever and it would be the best looper of all time.
Has anyone figured out a way to prevent Logic Pro from disabling input monitoring on all other channels when recording a Live Loop on one track? I have been trying to setup a session where I have multiple audio tracks monitoring incoming external audio input channels but for some insane reason the input monitoring stops on every track except the one you're recording the loop on.
You could try enabling the input monitoring switch under 'Configure Track Headers' and then tap the 'I' on all tracks you need to have monitoring enabled on, the 'I' only works with an external interface is used to avoid feedback.
Thanks for replying! Yep that’s how I have it configured - even with the “I” turned on for the other tracks the monitoring is disabled as soon as you start recording to a live loop
Ok, the only suggestion I have left is to send Apple some feedback about it and describe what you're after.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/logic-pro/
Personally I really don't see the point of keeping software input monitoring enabled all times on all the channels, for me it's more than enough to have monitoring enabled on the track I'm about to record on and even then I usually monitor thru the audio-interface rather than thru a DAW which adds latency that drives me nuts even at 64 sample buffer.