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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Awesome, thanks for letting me know.
trippin
Hopefully we get more details in the near future..
Same. This would be a killer feature.
I don’t think that there is any doubt that it is full value for money these days for those that want it.
It’s £30 UK. I’m thinking about buying Audiothing Arguements - which is £20 for one effect.
It seems to have audio sampling capability so I guess we can use that for audio tracks.
pre-ordered, price is entirely reasonable for that feature-set and Jim's track record of stable, well-built apps
looking forward to Feb 1!
i would have liked to see a few more LFOs on the on-board instruments, but i hope the integration of MIDI FX can take care of that
Why did I have to mention the price. It’s entirely reasonable I agree. I’m just poor 😅
This is well worth the money just imagine how much time his put into this app, and everything you get with this app I’ve spent more on a app that only achieves one thing and been really happy with it ( I’m looking at you fab filter ) I personally think his giving us all a bargain even just for noodling about, but it looks like it’ll do way more than that. Thanks Jim looks like another blinder. No sleep for February or March.
@drewinnit said:
it's AUv3 host, so i think getting a few more LFOs is not a problem at all
5 minutes of audio per 'loop' should be enough no?
Exactly. You can make whole songs in Ableton Session view without ever touching arrangement view. This should be no different.
Back in the days we had 5sec (if we were lucky) and somehow music still got made 😂
If you use it a lot/always it is a right bargain, if you use it hardly ever/never it is costly.
Don’t worry about that. Price discussion is an ember that will never extinguish on this forum.
I wish Jim would do some deep-dive tutorial videos like what 4Pockets did with MidiStep. Right now we're basing our decision to pre-order solely on his track record of previous apps. In this case we're trying to make the decision if we're going to make a change our entire music-creation workflow around an app that we know little about right now. Would you buy a bed without first lying on the matress, or a car without a test drive?
Dang it
Will definetly need to upgrade from my lil' iPad Mini 2 this year
Good thing I can hold of pre-purchasing and check your reviews later (I know its gonna be great)
The last, very cheap mattress that I bought, was about $300, bought without laying on it. Still holding strong happily snoozing on it 5 years later. The first car many buy is over $2000, and test drives won't show everything in lots of lemons...this is $30 for fun or potential creative expansion..
..I agree with your principal here but this is more like crying that your food isn't perfect while you're out at dinner; while getting ready to propose. You got a couple weeks for him to release any tutorial materials, too.
“Did you know you can do this in Grooverider 2?”
It’s an AUV3 host but is it an AUV3 plugin too ? It seems so when reading the description but not that clear
It supports it as a standalone host, but an auv3 plugin cannot host other auv3.
of course this arrives just after I spend two months building my ideal loopy control surface for AUM
can't wait for the release! bigup Jim this must've been so much work.
the 'pricey' talk is quite mental to me. i don't make big bucks and $30 is a non-trivial spend, pretty much my app budget for a month or two.
that said, I remember what it was like to have to save up to buy one VST, let alone a full workstation or hardware. we are in some kind of candyland here on ios for price-to-value, I thank my lucky stars whenever I bootup AUM that the app economy is so weirdly cheap. and I've easily gotten hundreds of dollars of fun out of Pure Acid alone, when I compare it with anything else I spend money on vs. fun received in life.
Still not clear though. Loopy or drambo are AUv3 as well, just without loading AU on it‘‘s own
Looks great, price is fair. Just not sure if i „need“ it currently. Probably i gonna buy it anyway to support a great developer.
You are well wide of the mark here I think and quite patronising to boot. It sounds like you re someone who is not short of cash.
People are indicating that things are a bit tight and every dollar counts at the moment, you don’t seem to have picked up on this. Making a major purchase like a car without doing everything you reasonably can to check it out is not the advice that any sensible person would give. Have you ever heard the expression ‘pig in a poke”?
I’m making the assumption that you are in the position where you can eat out when the fancy takes you, but despite this I find your dining out analogy is quite spurious bordering on ridiculous.
The value of money is relative. You can afford to spend $30 on a bit of ‘fun or potential creative expansion’ and not bother if it doesn’t work out, and that’s great for you.... to others it has to be a considered investment and there is no point in purchasing it unless the value is demonstrable otherwise it is money wasted. How many of us have ‘instabuys’ that have gone wrong?
The OP is spot on.
I agree with this take, if we just bought every app to “support a developer” or “because it’s inexpensive compared to VSTs”, where would you even draw the line? Why is it my job to uphold an industry?
Honestly, at this point, Logic Pro for iPad at 5/month and all of its included features is an incredible value that probably makes a good bit of these independent apps worthless.
I hate the subscription model but at the end of the day I have to keep buying the next version of the app anyway it’s just spreading the cost out more and achieving the same results.
I think it’s valid to share these opinions as developers deserve to hear what their customers want and care about. I don’t mind spending $30 for value, but I’m hard pressed to spend a dime on an app with a 90 second teaser that hardly shows any functionality. Maybe after others take the plunge, and/or get it for free to show off its feature. But the dev hasn’t earned my money just yet.
If you have endless funds to waste and value being first on the scene that’s fair, but certainly not the case for everyone.
I think for most people, waiting until you've got something to judge a purchase on is the best bet. I have a set and limited budget that gets shared between my many hobbies. I pretty much always wait now, especially as many apps and games and such software needs a few months before the final bugs get squashed by initial adopters! I have no doubt I will buy this, as the app looks fun, but I will wait till after release - I never pre order anything.
As for the subscriptions, I feel the same way, but Logic is my only subscription and it really is worth it, I just wished they would have used the Loopy Pro subscription model. If everything went subscription then I would simply choose a different hobby - too many companies think people have endless money for subscriptions, when that is simply not true for most people!
I'm pretty sure this app will be just fine and that eventually we will see some decent promotional material. I do emphasise with devs though, as the iOS ecosystem has a poor shop front and hitting all advertising niches can be quite costly for such small and often limited markets. Kinda damned if you do....damned if you don't sorta thing.
While sort of agreeing with another comment, I mention all this just for discussion sake and not really at anyone in particular. We all have our own opinions on the state of this hobby and I wish all the devs, players and buyers well whatever they choose in life. For some this will be the dogs doo dats and for others it will be just another app gathering dust - kinda what happens in Loopy Pro land of the appoholics lol
I’m already sold.. but the pre-release tutorials/showcase would be fabulous.. Imagining MidiStep ‘JUMPing’ in GR2..
Edit .. Thinking about it.. Not much videos displayed the JUMP feature in GR16..
I've preordered. The lack of audio tracks is a bit gaaaah (here we go again!), but hopefully the limitation will make sense in context.
EDIT: Realized I don’t really care enough to put that much effort into a $30 app. Cheers all!
Will buy - once it has a piano roll with scale locking/collapsing.