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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.
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Thanks for the correction. Nice to know it’s not an issue.
The addition of MIDI may be enough for me to jump on board but what I'm trying to figure out is what the venn diagram overlap between LoopyPro and EG Nodes (which I'm also looking at but don't own) will be after the next LoopyPro update. I only really work with MIDI in iOS if that helps...
You can try it out for free, so I'd just take it for a spin and see how it feels!
Can any recommend a midi foot switch to control Loopy Pro?
What are people using for controllers in general. I’ve got a fair bit of midi gear and I’m planning on using Loopy Pro as the heart of my set up.
Behringer FCB1010 and similar are pretty popular, along with the lil M-VAVE Chocolate 4 button one.
If it's class compliant, it's likely easy enough to map for the most part. If you have things you like already, try them out first
I've got a keystep 37, a bluetooth midi mixer, the chocolate footswitch and my phone midi'd into mine typically.
Thanks Goldiblockz
That M-VAVE Chocolate looks the business.
Once you get used to EG Nodes foibles, it’s a wonderful app for making shortish track ideas and then exporting them as audio stems to continue the idea in a more fully featured app. It’s actually maybe due to its slightly quirky song structuring that I tend to get different ideas in it than in other apps.
If you only want to work in midi and want to make more fully featured ideas in one app, I wouldn’t really recommend Nodes - it’s an out and out idea starter and that it is really worth it’s entry to buy and learn imo.
I’ve only used the demo of Loopy Pro and will buy it when midi comes along, but I wouldn’t compare it with Nodes. IMO they are completely different apps with differing strengths and weaknesses.
Nodes is great, and has become the center of a lot of work recently. It does have some quirks (what doesn’t?) but it fills the gap made expectations of a feature-rich clip launcher, frustrated by LK. Elliott (or whatever his walletnym is) hasn’t been active in his own discord for months now, and I fear possible abandonment.
I’ve always owned LP, so purchasing it isn’t an issue. It’s using it, in my own way, that’s been the question. Though I have been making use of its UI builder for a while now, and dig it.
Do we have a more firm ETA. I chafe.
One thing that’s really nice if you start an idea in nodes, is dragging midi from nodes onto loopy pro clips, thanks to them both supporting drag and drop. The first time I did it, it felt like some sort of touch screen magic.
I honestly didn't know that was possible. Looking forward to giving Loopy Pro a go when the midi comes out!
I can say the M-Vave thing is good but you might want something a bit more sturdy. Something like the Behringer FCB would open up a lot more LP functionality at your feet.
I got this one if you are looking for “tank built” but heavy as hell. Line 6 shortboard mkII.
You can get it used for a good price. That said, I haven’t been able (yet) to make sense of that many buttons. Let me try and explain…. No matter how many buttons I find it awkward to select clips with the foot. Move up/down, left/right. So imo it’s more important to have a very solid system beforehand, that takes some deep knowledge of Loopy, changing control profiles and so on. So I’d say you’re better of mastering the control profile stuff and having a good widget setup than the extra buttons. So muscle memory and having a setup that works for you is more important that the number of buttons.
I do this on practically a daily basis. It's a joy. And with MIDI loops (I'm a beta tester), it's simply the only iOS tool I need.
Perhaps this was answered already, but will the MIDI loops/clips support the concept of program change?
Really interested in the possibility of Loopy Pro being the primary sequencer for my live set but really need to have it auto-change the other MIDI devices in my setup. (Thinking something like Ableton does, where every clip, looped or one-shot, can first send a program change upon launch).
Can it do Probability (Chance).. Ableton (.als) export, audio and MiDi?
Looking forward..
MIDI clips can record and play back any midi. The first release features note editing but not non-note editing. Loopy’s widgets and follow actions can send pretty much any midi you specify as well as perform all sorts automation actions.
The focus of the initial midi support is recording and playback. I don’t think there will be probability features in the initial midi. ALS export probably not initially. What do you mean about the last “audio and midi”?
.als midi and audio clip export..
Some apps only do audio (Gr-16)..
Thanks..
Awesome, so if I can send a bank/program change message from an external app into Loopy, then it'll be able to record it. I just won't be able to edit it later it sounds like. If that's the case, that is not ideal, but will absolutely work.
I dug through the manual on how one might send a program change via the widgets and/or follow actions, and didn't find much. I did find the example of sending a PC message into Loopy to bind to an impulse action, but nothing about designating an outbound PC message. Maybe I missed it?
The Send MIDI action
You will be able to record midi sent by widgets. You won’t need to record midi from external cc/pc sources.
Ahh, there it is. Was looking for "program change", didn't think to search for "PC". Wonderful.
Glad to see this too. This should work then. Thank you for clarifying!
When I saw this video and the other posted in Reddit I thought the update would be any day.
It is a massive update and sometimes the last rounds of testing and refining take longer than one hoped.