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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It's weird after spending years avoiding social media to have a YouTube channel.
I was the last person I know to finally make a Facebook account. I'm not really comfortable promoting myself.
Sometimes just showing people a little bit of who you are is scary. I used to get stage fright every time my band played. Every time I was in a play in community theater I was scared to death. I feel that way every time I drop a video. What if everyone sees my flaws? What if they hate my video or my music?
I'm not selling anything but it feels that way. I'm competing for attention but I'm really just wanting to share a little bit while I'm alive. I don't know that I have anything important to say but not everything has to be important. Sometimes just making someone forget their troubles for a minute or two is enough.
I keep putting stuff out there to fight that nagging little voice that says, "You can't".
I do it because it gives me a chance to work with some friends and hopefully draw some attention their way.
In the end it might all be for nothing. But if it brings a little happiness or excitement to someone it's worth it. Seeing that people in China and Russia, Japan and Europe and other places all over the world have seen something I put together is an amazing reward.
I do wish I could make a living with it but even if I managed to devote the time required Im not sure if what I have to offer would be able to get the views.
What some of you have built on YouTube and other social media sites is impressive. I'm just beginning to get an idea of what it takes to have even a small amount of success. I'm so far away from being monetized the thought of it is just a fantasy.
I hope that by surrounding myself with people more talented than I am that I can grow. I appreciate the opportunity this Forum provides. I'm glad to be able to learn from people who are where I would like to be someday. Maybe I'll get there, maybe I won't. But I never would have gotten this far if not for this Forum and the people willing to share their creativity and feedback.
Apologies if I'm dragging the conversation off track. Just random thoughts, some self justification and a little appreciation for the people who are putting themselves out there.
It occurs to me that one of the watershed moments for iOS music apps, and this forum, was the placement of Loopy on The Tonight Show in March 2014.
https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/billy-joel-jimmy-fallon-lion-sleeps-tonight-singing-video
I often forget how quickly a fortuitous event like a product placement can change-up the game.
If big change is to happen, I think we need to look outside of YouTube.
Some people adore attracting attention and some detest it.
More often than not people are of the latter like rabbits caught in between headlights.
Oh indeed, walking on stage or standing in front of an audience is scary.
I think public speaking is the worst.
Yet you still feel compelled to do it.
Many of us feel the same way.
This is the basic requirement of our creativity.
You do not know whom you reach when you share your material.
So many performers have said the same thing or similar which is that
they have had members from the audience walk up to them and say "your song saved my life".
Oh you have that voice as well.
Nice, good thinking, scratch my back I scratch yours and we all benefit.
Awesome.
Always surround yourself with artists that are the equal or greater than you.
It keeps you humble and in turn pushes you to grow.
The greatest artists are humble people, they may start off with huge egos
but reality soon brings them right back down to earth.
There are exceptions of course.
It's relevant to the conversation because now that we have less "agro" as we say in Sauf London
we can focus on the community and what the community has to offer and
you're a member of the forum with some really good material and you're actively
using cutting edge tech, as in A.I, though controversial at the moment.
This thread has gone off in so many directions so it's all good.
Ohh,...I didn't know this piece of Loopy history.
Good to know and thanks for sharing.
Agreed.
For sure because it will eventually stagnate.
That’s a good point. But given the opportunity for such exposure, what app would even be best to showcase in 2024? Loopy was a pretty special app at that time.
Around that time was really the peak of devs bringing unique ideas to the iPad. There was a real buzz about app making in general and the hardware was impressive while still being user friendly.
Hmmmm indeed.
Care to share what you think should be suitable?
I mean that’s impressive but at the same time I’d almost struggle to call that a track.
Removed
I think the time for showcasing apps is done.
Most of the apps and even the Forum itself is now are established.
Audiences are used to live looping and electronica.
Their more interested in whether it's pleasing to the ear or not.
Now we have burnt out dev's who are facing an ever demanding unfriendly user base.
So many developers have given up because of the pressure.
Audio Damage had this to say last year...
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/54796/audio-damage-raised-some-prices-6-months-ago/p1
They haven't raised their prices however they are not the only ones complaining about the demands that they have to meet.
Here's what another dev had to say after the release of Xinematix
and many more desktop dev's have said similar things.
Why?
Not being confrontational simply asking for your honest opinion.
Happy to discuss the details once it’s a done deal. In hindsight I should have known better than to talk about a contract before it’s signed.
Yea, don’t jinx it
Agreed.
Agreed.
I'm currently listening to his BandCamp and it's dope.
https://lisson.bandcamp.com/album/lisson
https://lisson.bandcamp.com/track/loot-2
He's from London so seeing if I can sort out a link up to chat dRambo and other shizzle.
Will do and if he's up for it I may even do a dRambo special.
I don't know who Benn Jordan is however now that I have his monniker I'll go have a listen.
There's been quite a few things bubbling under the surface for dRambo.
the dRambo Facebook group is now 1.9k strong and is turning up
on ModWiggler Forum and the Elektron Forum as a sequencer of choice.
There's also some dRambo users who do a weekly live stream who use dRambo for sequencing and possibly effects.
They are more modular and semi-modular focused however
in this livestream you can see them using their ipads with dRambo on it.
Their channel is called Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ECkCu4NXw6U
@offbrands
Dude, I dropped Benn Jordon's name into Google and this was the first Youtube video that came up in the search.
I'm currently listening to it whilst I type because
I only got about a third of the way through watching it and
the amount of toxicity he's had to face is insane.
He was told that "he should be wiped off the planet" that he was an "influencer shill",
and that he should "kill himself"....and that viewers have attacked him and others
about gender, sexuality etc...
Wow.
I think that the iOS platform are doing rather well in that regards.
Thank you mods.
I've just commented about Benn Jordon.
I'll check out his "The Flashbulb" and other stuff for sure.
Yeah, it's going rather well on Facebook these days.
I'm trying to encourage more interaction but users are shy it seems.
However there are some good creations turning up.
yeah, FB and their verification is well...let's leave it at that shall we.
They've got some cool stuff on their channel especially if you're into Eurorack modular etc.
Right then...
It's late night early morning for me so see you all on the flipside, be safe, be cool, be musical. lololol
Peace.
✌🏾
Benn's cool. Sonic knowledge is off the charts. I watch a lot of music youtube content and the stuff that keeps me watching are my fave producers making the genres I enjoy usually;
Jon Makes Beats; takes the cake for me with straight to the point beats on a weekly basis.
BirdBoss; great Koala beats.
Ricky Tinez; fun educational hardware ramblings and funky grooves, some actually cool setups instead of the same things linked together all the time.
Jade Wii; real cool nerdy beatmaker and synth lover, hippy jazzy boom bappy
I think "iOS youtubers" don't make enough music and take too long to get to their points, in general. All of the above feature their faces and personalities up front next to their craft, not behind it.
It's some really good parts that don't really fit together. Like the middle section I'm grooving but then it's gone off in a different direction too soon when I could of lived in that for a while, there is like 5 hooky basslines when honestly it only needs the middle one.
+1, that was beautiful @MadeofWax, thank you for sharing it
I’ve been following this thread with my lurker hat on, and thinking about posting something very much like the above.
Having gone off on what many would regard as a very weird musical tack, I was amazed that even a small number of people actually appreciate some of my stuff, sometimes in unexpected places.
None of what I’ve been doing musically for the last decade (sporadically, but much more actively since 2020) would have happened without iOS/iPadOS - and without our YouTubers and this forum things would have been a lot slower. I make a point of pointing out in descriptions that my stuff is made using my iPad (on its own or with hardware instruments), and listing the apps used, hoping this encourages people to have a look at what’s available.
Quite where the future lies WRT this platform I don’t know (it does feel like we’re at some kind of transition point at the moment), but I suspect it’s less people using their devices exclusively and more using them alongside other kit, be that hardware or desktop, or whatever. I have no hard data, but from my own observations I see iPads and iPhones popping up more often, particularly with modular peoples (TM Jakob!).
I do wish Apple would do more to promote this stuff, though. So many people would like to try their hand at music making or recording and think they need to spend crazy money on desktop machines, DAWs, hardware etc, when they have an iPhone in their pocket and could try something like GarageBand for free and go from there if they find they like it.
While I think on, Benn Jordan recently said he hates Apple and no longer has any Apple kit, I’m pretty sure it was in a video about the Patreon thing. Which probably explains why he hasn’t done anything more about Drambo.
Thanks for the list.
That's my Winters viewing sorted.
I can understand why they don't make enough music.
When your creativity is focused on learning new apps before they even come out,
making the videos for said apps and then along comes another one to learn and then another,
having to be careful about not alienating their fan base because of trolls
and liasing between the Dev's and the users
they don't have enough creativity left to create music that is meaningful.
For instance you're not going to be able to write a love song when
you mind is filled with technical manuals.
That's a broad generalisation however to a certain degree it's true.
In that regards that's why I like the freedom of my YouTube channel.
I just put a camera up making sure the sound level is reasonable from my mixer and hit record.
I don't have that many subscribers and if you like listening to long jams then way to go.
My channel is more in line of being a diary than anything else.
I also regularly practice writing haiku's so that my songwriting skills remain warm.
Anyway the point being if the iOS YouTubers were to focus on creating music then there would be far less tutorials.
Agreed, it would be good to be able to see their faces however the camera cannot have their faces
and an iPad screen in shot at the same time and as mentioned in another thread recently
some users need to be able to see the screen in case they miss an all important step for them.