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Clip launcher for midi and audio
Good day all,
Was watching some tube vids with an instructor using Ableton to launch clips and sample and add midi etc, all with clip launch type workflow.
My usual workflow is time line based in cubasis and has been for for a very long time.
Could anyone suggest a good clip launcher DAW or AU3 that is considered good. Now I know its subjective and what does good mean?
Need to record and import samples.
Allow recording of midi AUs
All in ios
BAM LK Ableton Note all look good but they are not so cheap to take a punt.
Any reoccurring favs anyone could suggest? And yes Drambo, but that seems a default answer these days 
Best wishes and thank you for any help here.
db
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I expect Loopy Pro is going to be the majority recommendation here, but until it actually records and loops MIDI, I can’t suggest it myself, for this kind of combined application.
LK is a very Ableton-like clip launcher - as you would expect, given that it’s built to be an Ableton interface, but I’ve always found it a bit hostile to a smooth workflow.
These days, I mostly do MIDI clip launching with Nodes, and an instance or two of Koala, triggered by Nodes, to handle the audio loops.
Logic Pro also offers an interesting alternative to all this, but I haven’t really used it enough to get comfortable with it.
Loopy pro will definitely be best soon, in a couple of months my guess.
Logic pro, or Zenbeats are the current all in one options.
This is EG Nodes core purpose isn't it?
Yep, Logic is nice… Love how the loops auto scale to project key…
Logic's Live Loops are fantastic. Best use of screen real estate too. Just wish we could launch them & record with a MIDI controller...the touch controls are too fiddly for me when performing or heavy recording.
I was all in on Zenbeats for awhile, but it was just too buggy.
EG Nodes is def one answer
GarageBand has an excellent clip launcher that can do both audio and midi.
And it is free.
Zenbeats has both clip launcher and timeline pretty similar to Ableton Live. It is free to try with limited features.
A certain looper app will be getting midi clip launching soon-"ish".
So after lots of thought and deliberation i opted for. . . . Zenbeats because i guess its still being loved by its creators and maybe there is a new update in the works.
I do like the roland stuff on desktop and so may get the the all platforms upgrade as its on special at the moment.
Anyone else have this option?
Thank you.
db
I used to have the supposed 'lifetime' unlock on all platforms but then they added lifetime unlock 2 and 3. Switched to Cubase at that point. Refuse to be ripped off.
Ah! yes thats not good.
Makes sense now as to the many options as V1, V2 etc. V3 is on sale and so I guess its a strategy to sell more before V4 on the horizon.
But still its a good app for ios.
When's a lifetime not a lifetime?😏
It was a lifetime unlock for the version you had. I don't see that as a ripoff. It's not like what you purchased no longer worked. I did just that - stuck around on V2, happy with what I had, until at some point I felt some of the newer features were worth the upgrade price (and there was a sale).
If it were "Lifetime free updates" that'd be a different matter. I guess that's what the App Store economy has molded our interpretation to be.
Too bad the rest of life doesn't work that way.
Or maybe not. It'd be pretty hard to make a living at anything if it did.
Well I paid $99 for the original 'ultimate unlock' and it was represented as follows.
"Open Labs is excited to share the news that StorePass will include the next Stagelight Ultimate Unlock V4. This one in-app purchase will give you EVERYTHING including all Instruments, Loops, Presets and Platforms (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) along with VST/AU plug-in support plus anything else coming to Stagelight 4 throughout the entire Stagelight release cycle."
Admittedly that's back when it was StageLight and, reading the above carefully with the benefit of hindsight, I suppose it depends what they mean by "the entire StageLight release cycle" but the way it was presented was as an FL Studio/Pigments one off purchase for everything including future content. In fact, that was pretty much the entire point of the purchase - to get all new content without requiring further purchases.
Roland acquired it only a year later so obviously technically it was no longer StageLight but I certainly wouldn't have paid that kind of money on iOS if I'd have know it wasn't a one-off purchase.
I'm not actually that bothered these days TBH. I've simply stopped using it and just use Cubasis now which has a much fairer pricing model, but I do think it was misleading at best.