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.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Moogerfoogertastic: Glacial
“Through the desolate summits swept raging intermittent gusts of the terrible antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half-sentient musical piping.” - H.P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains Of Madness
‘Half sentient’? He’s playing my song!
So: an initial run out for a selection of those tasty MFs… phaser (only just noticed you can set it to stun, or kill, btw), the luvverly, luvverly Murf (yes, it’s my favourite) the Saturator, and the Clusterflux, operating on two instances of Decent Sampler, as ever, driven by Atom, and recorded and mixed live direct from AUM into AudioShare.
Loving the… tectonic… depth of the FX here. Don’t think I’ve heard the like with other app FX to date.
All comments welcome, indeed eagerly sought-after. Am I just hallucinating the depth of these apps on account of some kind of sunk cost fallacy? (e.g. the sort-of vocal effect is just a pile-on of the apps, gated, there are no vocal samples of any kind on the track. I was kinda impressed by that…) Or is the bundle really worth the money? Let me know what you think. And: Enjoy!
Comments
Real nice! 😊
I did a couple of TC-11 recordings yesterday that I'm now merging and using MF for fx inside AUM. Need time to get it right, so many options. The fact that you can connect them to each other is just, awesome.
Excellent ambient track, sometimes raw too. Indeed, Antartica vibes!
Interesting track, thanks for sharing. I’ve not purchased the MF bundle yet - still at that ‘should I, shouldn’t I?’ stage - but it seems to me that rather than looking at the cost of the bundle (which is sizeable), one should ask, ‘are these apps worth £5 each?’ as that’s the cost per app (same as the Unfiltered Audio apps were when bought as a bundle during their introductory offer). Looked at that way, are they all worth £5 each?
Agree whole heartedly. What a grand soundscape you constructed here! Just the right amount of distortion and wash. Absolutely love this.
Dear Svetlovska - this is pure beauty - you so talented :-) fantastic soundscape and atmospheres
This is simply stunning! I have only started to scratch the surface of the MoogerFoogers but this is a great testament to them!
What a beautiful soundscape! One of my fav ambient artists Tim Hecker uses a lot of distorted sounds so this is right up alley.
Definitely getting Vangelis vibes here 👍
This is a journey in itself.. open expanses.. harsh conditions.. occasional shards of light piercing through..
Fucking brilliant!
Love it!
Nice vibe to this, and you certainly know Lovecraft. The vocalizations took me by surprise - I wasn’t quite sure how you would represent the “piping”, but I like that.
Hearing this reminded me of del Torro walking away from the potential movie. That would have been so good.
Sounds amazing as usual!
And yeah, these MF effects are top notch; definitely worth the money, especially at the bundle deal price!
Dang.
I’m running out of superlatives here.
This one chilled me completely on a hot day. Excellent!
Oh this is excellent. I agree those Moog apps are some hefty MFs. Some of my favorite effects released in a while so far I’d say. Are you using all Moog for all FX here?
Not sure what my favorite is yet but MuRF is the early frontrunner. I do like Clusterflux a lot though.
beautiful !! very powerfull track …
And very Lovecraftian, it gives me feeling of climax/epilogue, where main protagonist, after experiencing incredible horrors, is finally passing away and his consciousness is slowly dissolving into painless void of nothingness, glad that all those experienced horrors are finally done and only thing ahead him is merging with shapeless eternal void where is no pain, no sufferering, just nothing…
Strewth. It’s getting chilly round here! Seriously, though, wonderful work.
so...the yoda outro?
lol i guess this means i messed up grammar badly in my post 😂😂😂
Haha
Wow! Thanks all for the listens and comments, much appreciated.
Yes, @Robin2 , considered at £5 a pop, I guess these are a bargain. They are really special individually, and the ‘cv’ inter connectedness is a whole other rabbit hole to go down. Unique, and the more time I spend with them, the more I like them.
@michael_m : yes, that’s one of the great ‘if only’ moments in movie making. Apparently he worked out that the grand style the story required meant a movie of it would put it in Mission Impossible territory budget wise, but it could only ever reach a fairly niche horror audience, so it just didn’t stack up financially.
The world(s) spanning cosmic horror scope of HPLs widescreen stories like Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu is notoriously difficult to adapt to the screen, it seems. Indeed,in my opinion, very few movies have managed to nail the vibe at any scale, and generally it is the smaller scale stories which work best. Nicholas Cage’s recent and sadly neglected Colour Out Of Space is one of the best I’ve seen, and it did very little business…
This guy has an interesting video essay on the problem:
And, @jdp00 : thanks so much for turning me on to Tim Hecker. I love his stuff now, and I find it curiously affirming to find that a proper musician is making music not completely unadjacent to my own little noises - although I’m glad I made mine in ignorance of the precedents he has set!
@bygjohn : Thanks for the ‘Strewth!’
Definitely need more ‘strewth’s, though I’m also putting in bids for ‘blimey’s ‘what larks’ and ‘lummee’s too. Now we all need to gather round the old Joanna for a right old ding dong. I’m feeling positively Stanley Unwin about the whole thing now.
Now I’m off for a ball of chalk…
Ha ha… classic Yoda!
—————————
@Svetlovska This is absolutely next level stuff. Could listen to this all day. Looking forward to more. 👍🏼🙏🏼
Well, I do the occasional Blimey, the rest is way too cockney for my northern sensibilities…
TBH these are mainly attempts to replace the exclamatory expletives that are my initial reactions!
The good news is that he still wants to make it, so hopefully someone has the sense to let him one of these days.
Unfortunately Lovecraft stories have been given to the wrong people, and most of them that make it to film or TV are turned into sanitized horror films.
Even del Torro as executive producer for the Cabinet of Curiosities series let others do dreadful things to Dreams in the Witch House (badly scripted and badly cast) and Pickman’s Model (a truly terrible mangling of Lovecraft’s work).
I would love to see some faithful renditions of his work by filmmakers who understand Lovecraft, but unfortunately that is an incredibly rare occurrence.
@michael_m : agreed! I seek out Lovecraft versions or ‘influenced by’ movies on DVD or BluRay whenever I get the chance, and rarely see anything that nails the vibe. I think Event Horizon is probably the best ‘influenced by’ cosmic horror I have seen, and for pure sustained mood, the best full stop:
Whilst the misleadingly named Dagon is actually a pretty solid and mostly faithful version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, relocated to Spain for… reasons:
Otherwise, I enjoy Cthulhu-spotting in movies like The Cabin In The Woods, and Underwater, and watching Cthulhu adjacent stuff like In The Mouth of Madness and The Void, but otherwise, I’m still waiting for the definitive Lovecraft on screen.
Del Toro has shown with Pan’s Labryinth that he has the chops for the outre, the monster with its eyes in its hands could have come straight from HPL, and the sense of other worlds at a weird angle adjacent to our own was obviously strong in that . I’d love to see him pull it off.
Yeah, those Lovecraft episodes of Cabinet of Curiosities were kinda lame. Actually the whole series pales in comparison to the brilliance of Tales of the Unexpected, which it was - as you probably know - heavily influenced by. The best Lovecraft adaptation I've come across is the 3-part series from BBC Radio (available widely online now) 'The Lovecraft Investigations'. The first series is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Great stuff.
No one will be surprised to hear me tell you that it was none other than Svetlovska herself, the 'Mistress of Miskatonic' ™ who turned me on to this! 😉
@Gavinski : Ha! ‘The Mistress of Miskatonic’ - I like that
Yes, you’re right, the best updating of HPL in any medium, notwithstanding the recent clever reappropriating book and tv show Lovecraft Country, are those superb BBC radio serials:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p06spb8w?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
And very medium translatable, I think. They could virtually use them as story boards for what could be an arse kicking X Files/Lovecraft tv series, in the style of the modern era Lovecraft RPG Delta Green:
https://www.delta-green.com/
whilst also managing to stay very true to the source material.
Their stuff was so good, I actually got all fan-girl silly over it and wrote a gushing letter of praise to the Brighton based production company responsible when the show first aired.
If I may gush a little further here: reprehensible old racist though he undoubtedly was for at least part of his life (overlooking complicating facts such as that he married a Jewish woman at a time when antisemitism was also de rigeur for people of his class in the US) , there was more than tentacles in his stuff. Remember that it was he, in the (admittedly racism-containing) Horror At Red Hook, who introduced the idea of special FBI teams covertly battling sinister other worldly conspiracies, decades before Mulder and Scully switched on their flashlights…
Lovecraft, a sci-fi author as much as a horror writer, (and a genius for mashing those two up so seamlessly) was also a keen follower of the state of the art science of his day, and many of his stories are infused with interpretations of the-then new physics, or feature the hi tech gadgetry of his time, like voice recording devices.
A complex, flawed guy who nevertheless gifted the world a unique bleak vision. Perhaps only William Gibson’s invention of Cyberpunk has managed to so thoroughly own wholly new fictive territory in such a way since.
@Svetlovska great track!
Re: cosmic horror movies. Have you tried any of Benson and Morehead's movies? Although the horror is turned down (especially compared to the colour out of space movie) they are definitely working in that area. The Endless is a good one to try
@nickneek: you are the second one to recommend that to me in recent days - must be fate. I’ve put it on my Cinemaparadiso.co.Uk watchlist. Thanks for the tip!