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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Haha, I know, I’ve been quite restless moving back and forth between band and solo and songwriting etc. Also buying and selling acoustic guitars (getting into all solid woods now $$$$). Oh dear!
Then I sit down with Move and almost can’t be arsed to watch tutorials because I already know that I know my Drambo rig inside out and there’s really no need for pulling triggers on toys if I can make an entire track with scenes and all, vocals and record audio and mush it with tornado etc etc within a 20 mins sesh.
I know dabbing in new gear brings ideas but I feel like running in circles.
So yes, play a bit, mess around, send it back. It’s better then circuit tracks but not that much better.
Also portability isn’t much of an issue with a suitcase based rig. I just took it to band practice. Took it out, didn’t even play it. No problem, it takes 10 secs to unplug the mic and close the lid. Fits right in my bike’s pannier! Happy days.
I hear you.
I'm being quiet but things are simmering.
Sounds very cool.
Solid woods? Oh dear!!!
Lololol.
Myself also.
Last year I went down the rabbit hole of semi-modulars and Eurorack
and realised that dRambo pretty much has it all and then some.
I learnt a lot about Eurorack modules and connecting dRambo to Eurorack
and reverse engineered various modules and even designed an oscillator tuner
to compensate for analog drift and difficult scaling however
I've just stripped my rig down to ipad+Korg Kontrol mki+Launchpad X,
I've had to send my LaunchControl XL's back for servicing,
and I'm having fun with dRambo, drum samples, Loopy Pro, my guitar, bass and vocals.
I'm having fun.
Again, I hear you.
Literally everytime I look at a new piece of gear I think to myself I wonder if...
I open up dRambo and make something.
Yeah, I'd rather get the Circuit or Circuit Tracks for sure.
Awesome.
I have a couple of boxes and an old school metal case (you know the ones that tech guys carry)
that I could actually use for this purpose.
Something to do in Winter.
Oh that’s interesting to learn. Talk about timing.
Curious what drew you to it? Was it the hype? Did you already have experience in music / iOS music?
Might seem OT but I extend this q to anyone on this thread, if they wanna partake. If it’s OT, apologies, I’ll can make a new thread!
I am interested in the pathway to using an app like this, and the way they use it. I imagine some use it as only a daw, some for building synths or sound effects, some who use the utilities of it within another host, some who use it as a drum machine, etc.
I wonder how many people here dabbled in making music before! I mentioned I used Koala before but it wasn’t a ton at all. Probably a few dozen hours over a couple years. Downloading Drambo last year totally opened up my music curiosity and led me to spend more time learning about it.
Semi recently I got into Loopy Pro and f me running Drambo + Loopy could keep me occupied happily musically for years.
If @giku_beepstreet is interested in doing it, I'm sure Michael would be happy to share how to do it if he asks.
Without a doubt, it was a challenge and yeah the time it came out was perfect for the Lockdowns.
I don't think I'll be able to devote so much time to one thing for quite awhile.
Definitely wasn't the hype because I didn't notice the hype.
I've mentioned it before I thought it was an in Forum joke.
I've been a musician all my life, my first paid tour was when I was 17.
I'm multi-talented which I don't like saying really however it is what it is
also I'm self taught and not just in music, in many other mediums.
Agreed.
I use dRambo for the heavy lifting and Loopy Pro for looping.
It's so much smoother when recording than using a DAW.
If I was doing session work again dRambo+Loopy Pro would be my rig.
I could do a full production using just dRambo+Loopy Pro actually.
I would have to export to a Desktop to make it release quality
because my iPad just isn't powerful enough that's it.
Nah, keep it here for now unless you really want to create a new thread.
Would be a nice quality of life improvement for that forum! Also for you to not have to impart that information each time the forum gets brought up (which I would do the literal same lol)
I wish all devs would post their manuals in GitHub and put them online so that if you want to update it, just do a pull request.
@offbrands
" I am interested in the pathway to using an app like this, and the way they use it. I imagine some use it as only a daw, some for building synths or sound effects, some who use the utilities of it within another host, some who use it as a drum machine, etc.
I've got to perform tomorrow otherwise I would answer this however
if no one takes a bite on this one I'll have a nibble if you don't mind.
Mañana.
Brilliant idea I hadn’t thought of. Gitbook is a service more streamlined for this purpose.
What would you end up doing on desktop to make it release quality? I feel ya on the iPad not being powerful enough. iPad Air 3 for me lol. Can’t let go of it yet!
Good luck on the performance! And I definitely don’t mind.
That does look good. There's a lot more control and potential for quality control than a wide open Wiki. I'd contribute to something like that. I like to write.
If the Audiobus wiki and Loopy Pro wiki (now merged) are any indicator, getting people to actually contribute much is harder than it seems. But you never know unless you try.
Yeah and if you are developing a new release of the app and you don’t want people to know about features or whatever, just make a new private branch of the doc repo and your beta group can do PR’s to that branch and then when you do a merge to “master” you can see the diff’s and make sure there’s nothing that needs to be addressed.
Like Gravitas, I've found Drambo and Loopy Pro to be the ideal combination. Only I go the opposite direction. I use Drambo inside Loopy Pro as the host rather than the other way around. I started that before there was any MIDI capability in Loopy. Drambo was handling all the MIDI, but also did double duty for synths and FX where it made sense.
I'll continue to use Drambo that way even after Loopy's beta-test MIDI capabilities are released. The seamless experience of Loopy's MIDI Looping is fantastic, but Drambo has so many advanced sequencing capabilities that I'll continue to use it heavily.
I honestly don't feel like I need anything else to work with on the iPad. Every bit of functionality is there to make music the way I like. My performing days are way behind me, but I would be 100% confident these two for live work.
Good to know and would be much appreciated and throughly helpful.
Totally. It would take a concerted effort by a couple of few people to be diligent about it.
One thing would be nice is that if there’s a helpful comment to a niche solution if we could link the comment to the page. Not dissimilar to the wiki on this forum for gold star posts.
Something like Obsidian (not the synth, the note taking app) with tags or backlinks. I’m going to do some research into this.
This is the way. A way but my preferred way. I like bringing AUM into Loopy as well because why not lol.
Can’t wait for MIDI looping. Truthfully I don’t use midi too much now as I’ve been doing my own thing with audio, but I definitely can see the benefits in using MIDI in some scenarios for where I’m at musically. Just gonna wait until it’s out on Loopy to dig into.
I’ve always used samples and just got into software instruments this year so I haven’t had the need to work myself up into a bother with another variable, but also I’m green so it’s easy for me to say this for my own process. I’m sure this is a huge feature that will help plenty of people going forward.
I just need a nicer iPad and then I’ll be good lol.
iPad is really something special for music. Frustrating in some regards, mostly Apple being Apple, but in most ways it’s been a delight to use. I wish more apps would feel better to use on the touch screen. Like more intentional with that use case, but that’s just wanting my cake delivered at this point lol.
Is this a personal choice? Or just something that you’ve grown apart from? Forgive me if it’s something personal. Just curious.
I’m looking into doing an opening set (30 minutes) in December. Don’t know if I got the cajones for that yet .. but we’ll see.
This is a great function of Git. Being able to already have it set up for release date so you can publish (assuming the docs have been kept up to date) when you push the update.
I never was that good to begin with, and I’m getting more and more introverted. I just don’t feel like putting myself out there like that any more. I’m happy to just noodle in the headphones on the couch these days.
Sure you do. It’ll be great! Don’t become like me. 😎
Nice to see an update! Is there a better solution now for recording midi coming out of an AUV3 (for instance using the pads or keys from inside an AUV3 app, instead of the Drambo keyboard)?
There was a workaround by adding a midi fx instance of Drambo and tapping the ‘rec’ box on it but I cannot get it to work reliably and sometimes I can either record but not hear the sounds at the same time, and other times I cannot record at all.
Can someone tell me what this new circular icon in the header of the auv3 does?
Could you please try and describe steps to reproduce a case where hitting Rec won't record anything from the AUv3?
Thanks!
@offbrands @Gravitas @wim
Loopy Pro + Drambo FTW.
I personally use D inside LP because of Loopy UI feeling a bit less cramped but I’ve tried it both ways and it works great.
One super amazing combo in D is knobs + graphic shaper + whatever destination. I know it ‘a a classic macro set up but when @rs2000 illuminated me with this my relationship with Drambo and my midi controller’s real estate has changed.
Currently I have 1 knob dedicated to 4 types of envelopes, another one with about 10 different effects, at times overlapping, yet another one to various oscillator shapes within layer switch module. It started with @Gravitas helping me making a classic high pass low pass combo dj style filter on one knob!! I’’m beginning to feel emotional now 😅
That’s possibly why when I touch hardware I feel demotivated after a while because to recreate stuff like that without a big screen aided by touch is a huge amount of work.
What drew me to Drambo?
I kept asking @giku_beepstreet for Impaktor 2 until he led me astray into the nerdy world of modular and the rest is history. I still understand only about 30% of it but the flexibility of DIY approach is so liberating.
I’ve also always wanted to bring the worlds of electronic and acoustic music, both of which I love, closer together. So next time I meet my non electronic mates I can jam with them using my little rig with minimal setup or getting lost in menus or loading instruments. That’s why I decry the lack of Samplr in AU form. I know it still works but I truly hope someone inadvertently clones it 😂
Drez, you are a genius! 🤗 Now, how do we persuade Giku and the rest of the helping army?
Hmmm. I like the idea but would that work well with people who don't even know what a pull request is?
What about an online document like in Google docs or whatever?
Anyone tried the midi takeover yet? As I understand, when selected this should allow for smooth takeover of a mapped parameter and the midi controller values don't match. It (still) doesn't seem to work that way for me. The mapped parameter jumps to the midi controllers position when manipulated and the knob is in a different position
Sounds good! At this point, anything is better than what we have. I'll help with filling in as much as I can.
I must admit that I don't use macros as much as I should however
I do agreed that macros really do change the way we design and perform our music.
Mic drop, handkerchief out...turns away from the cameras, dry's eyes, turns back and carry's on.
Yeah, hands down an iPad beats the screens on hardware for sure.
Jump through hurdles via knobs and sub menus or tap a screen.
Ohhhhhhh,.....so thaaaaaat's how they got you.
I can picture it in my minds eye.
Dark alley way,
neon lights at the end of it,
people against the walls making offers
which you ignore because you can see impaktor 2 at the end of it.
You offer your hard earned money and instead of Impaktor 2 you get...dun, dun, daaaaaah.
DRAMBO!!!!
There's a movie scene there somewhere.
I've always enjoyed combining the two hence
why I really like the dRambo+Loopy Pro combination
that I'm currently exploring and making templates for.
I think what you've written here are actually good pointers for other users.
The way to mastery isn't always along the same path
and what tickles one person may put off another.
Start off using it in the direction that interests you the most because
that interest will then grow into venturing into other directions.
It was a Gospel Choir performance in honour of Black History Month
and I was invited to play on drums by the leader of the choir
who is an award winning jazz pianist and eminent Gospel Choral leader here in the U.K.
It was held at Kings Chapel on the Strand here in London.
The other instrument was trumpet which was played by our mutual friend
so it was trumpet, piano and drums supporting and leading a Gospel choir.
The three of us go way back and we met through jazz anyway moving on....
Becasue the changes can't be approved. what if the documentation that somebody add's in the google doc is just wrong? What if they delete a whole section on accident?
I'm sure if you can figure out drambo, you can figure out how to use Git
Anyone have a good lead on a recent tutorial series on Drambo that includes recent (not necessarily the most recent) updates… I’m going to try banging my head against it for like the 4th time and see if I can make it through this time… It’s so hard to unwire years of “AUM think” for me…
If anyone else was rustled by this....
from the dRambo forum:
Something new to come, that has been in beta for a while but had to be removed so this update can address some urgent issues immediately.
Ignore for now
It brings up a TV screen window with Max Headroom making wisecracks about your compositional skills. It still needs a bit of work.