(Fairly simple to code) features suggestion: offset amount edit, threshold triggers sample, etc

coldlampen

1. Auto play consecutive recordings. As you make recordings of your different song ideas throughout the week. It’s fun to go back and listen to them. It would be nice if I played my most recent recording, walk around my room and enjoy the listen back and not have to come back to press on the next track. it would be nice if it just kept playing the next track, however you sorted. Similar to how AudioShare play the next track below. So if you made a bunch of recordings on your guitar, you can just enjoy the listen back without having to fuss with the screen.

2. Addition to the two fingers twist to offset timing feature. Add an incremental slider or buttons or field to enter in milliseconds. I have the old irig Pro and my iPad Pro and iPhone 6s. In some scenarios, the latency is too much to just let it play back my overdubs. I always have to jump over and do the two finger twist to line it up during a fun loopy jam with my flute player friend and my guitar. I can’t afford to upgrade my interface yet and this twisting feature works great but it’s frustrating that the only way I can access that feature is by squeezing my two fat fingers together and trying to twist just right. It seems like a no-brainer that you should have this feature accessible in a different way. I’d love to set up a my own slider or buttons, but I can’t find access to that offset behavior. It’s also nice to build up drum rhythms by having one high hat, looping and copy it over to another donut, and then offsetting it to make an interesting ghost note. Etc.. it seems like a no-brainer that this offset feature should be accessible in more ways than just the sloppy your two fingers together and rotate.

3. It’s always nice when a program signifies which project you’re already on, in the same area where you were deciding, which project to open next. It might be programmatically difficult to make the project highlighted at the top or something, but maybe you could just have the file name visible from the previous screen at the top, when you’re in the open projects screen. Sometimes I’ll open the same project twice because once I was in there scrolling around, I forgot the name of the one I’m currently on. Sometimes I have to close the projects open screen so I can go back and remind myself which project I’m on currently, and then I open the projects window again.

4. A very simple audio threshold to midi trigger feature. Many of us are slapping our guitars trying to get a quick drum rhythm going into loopy. It’s actually pretty common to just do one part at a time. Like smack the bridge your guitar with your palm to try to get a kick drum pattern looping. It would be very cool and probably kind of easy to add a simple feature where whenever loopy hears something cross the audio volume threshold, it automatically plays a one shot sample. It’d be fun to have a very stable low ram, simple kick, snare, high hat, samples pre set up in my template. Then when I go to make up a song, I record myself on my acoustic guitar playing any kind of note, and loopy is instantly transforming it into whatever sample I have it set to trigger, and loopy records that sample looped. So I can do like a high hat at 1x, then another pass, I’ll record a snare at x4, then I make another pass with a kick drum at 2x. Without damaging my guitar, I just played some simple noise and triggered one sample at a time, and very simply looped up some high-quality kick, high hat and snare. Right there live. The possibilities of triggering midi are endless. I mean, if you’re interface has eight mic inputs. I guess you can convert your whole eight piece drum kit mic’d into 8 separate triggers set up within loopy. It seems simple to have the loopy code be able to use the same code you’re using for threshold recording But instead of that code triggering record, use it to trigger triggering sample to play.

5. More advanced coding wish: I wish Loopy Pro had away for me to quickly insert silence or do other simple edits to my loop waveform. I often want to insert silence over a bad high hat, hit or skank, without affecting the other 90% of the loop that came out nice. But it is a pain to export into another program, do the edit and then put it back. There’s ways you can play it and re-record it to another donut while hitting the mute button, but it’s difficult. It be nice if loopy could do simple edits to the waveforms, but I don’t want loopy pro to become bloatware so maybe this type of thing could be handled with a optional seperate app that is designed to work seamlessly with Loopy Pro. It could be a simple waveform editor that has a couple of simple features like insert silence, cut and paste, normalized, and maybe an editable volume line. An editable volume line feature alone would be great for my needs to insert silence with a nice fade sometimes. Sometimes I’ll have a nice loop but there’s one element that I wish I could silence out. Like silence a bad skank and overdub with a better timed skank or hi hat, snare, whatever.. it might be nice to have Loopy Pro offer an edit button that brings up the wave form with a volume line that you can add nodes to an edit.

Thanks for making Loopy Pro! It’s so good.

wim

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