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@Samu said:
/ I am thinking they may not ever fix it. Look how long they tried to pretend they were considering getting on the bus with the first impc. They talk a good game I will give them that.
I honestly believe that this app is abandonware. They made a lot of money from it after the hype parade, it was top of the music app charts for a long time. Retronyms are hit & run developers, and this is by far their worst incident of that.
There's enough people in the world for them to keep doing what they're doing for a long time..
@kobamoto it's any effect, any app. I just used that one because you have Turnado and that effect would make it obvious.
Although I can record with my USB interface and Disney mic (just watch a level meter without sound), I can't monitor them from the app which for a sampling app would seem to be a significant drawback. I have to agree with the others that it's abandonware. You may or may not get some use out of it, but it's far from ideal and the final product falls short of their ad campaign.
The previous work around of being able to open the app within an IAA app such as Audioshare inside Audiobus no longer works in iOS 8. Their insistence on pushing Tabletop and not including Audiobus support has been consistent and another reason this may not be the way to go.
I can't/don't believe it's abandonware. Too much money still on the table(top). However, their concerns are not (largely) our concerns.
It make sense, of course, that those of us dedicated to or at least severely in favor of Audiobus will not be too impressed by a product that's strategy, in part, is to bypass the AB opportunity altogether.
Disheartening for us, but purely a commercial consideration for them. Just business Freddo. As is their right. I still use this piece of kit for making the odd loop, but I don't make pieces with it, just export my few bars and take them off to a more convivial (to me) place.
And that's the way to do it Goodyear, there are lots of apps, none of them are perfect besides jonatans haha and I use whatever is workin for me when I need it to work, I own all the other sampling beatmachine apps with the exception of gadget but it's not really a sampling app but still it's a beatmachine and for sampling slicing and sequencing beats no other app moves like this one, unfortunately retro is basking in the wrong kind of confidence, they've made an incredible product that has even evolved the workflow but instead of taking the goodwill that allot of unsatisfied original impc customers like myself have given them by purchasing this app and not really followed up with the attention that we deserve and that's twice now.... Even so they still made the dopest sampling beatmachine and there is no way I'm gonna let them stop me from enjoying it for what I do get out of it, just like any other app, or any of the gadget users that paid almost the same price I paid for the impc pro for those sampler modules a piece. Now if the impc pro was only as capable as both those gadget samplers there would be pitchforks over there on the retronyms lawn.
I still think retronyms made the app better than they even knew but I'm going to keep on making the suggestion to them that they show us some proper luv
@firejan82 just curious have you gotten a response from retro about those fx issues?
I never wrote them about that.
@kobamoto said:
So all the posts you've made comparing Gadget unfavourably to iMPC Pro, the ones where you've completely slated the Korg app and it's workflow, have been based on what? Videos you've seen? Things you've read from other users?
@kobamoto said:
After all the comments from users in this thread complaining of technical and workflow issues and you still repeat your mantra that it's 'incredible'. It doesn't work properly (not from an aesthetic or UI perspective, but...it don't work) on older devices and there are comments above that you can't record into it. From the perspective of a sampler app I'd say that's a pretty big booboo. Add in the negative comments about workflow and missing functionality and I'm at a loss how it can be described as 'incredible'. 'Crap' is the best I can award it in it's current state, backed up by 1 star support.
Retronyms best app is still VOX 3000. No bugs
Until it gets timestretch (which they are working on for something, according to rep on this forum), and musically-specific tuning (semitone adjustments), and can sample line-in with monitoring, it's not quite the robust sampling machine some here are claiming it to be.
Also would prefer way to import directly from Audioshare and Dropbox (BM2-style folder importing through DB would be ace), a snap-to-BPM sample looping/editing feature, zero-crossings feature, and either more flexibility on the 16 levels tuning or a pop-up keyboard, in order to improve melodic-oriented workflow (semitones on tuning would help here as well).
Also want to see option for transient-detecting auto-slicing
And it needs virtual line-in on its Tabletop version ... I think original may have even had this.
@parallaxobject said:
Yeap the original impc had virtual line in BUT sadly the internal effects are still disabled ,so it's still useless inside tabletop...Shame on you Retronyms!
@parallaxobject said:
This is what I would like to see to make loop slicing slicker
@monzo said:
Monzo you sound like your taking this personal and like you're not even listening to what I'm saying, I'm listening to you though and you've already told me in no uncertain terms that the reasons why I like the app are not at all pluses or important for you, so what makes you think I was talking to you when I said the app is incredible, you made a point to impress upon me that the things I'm judging the app on are not things you're concerned with and I got that message, but for people like me, and I'm a sampling expert hardware and software based the app is clearly a milestone in iOS sampling beatmachines no ifs, ands, or buts about it
On top of that you've already disclosed that you can see the difference between the app running on your ipad versus faster ipads which you've noted yourself more than once in this thread.
No I don't have gadget not yet but I will after some updates, also I never slated gadget, I slated the gadget samplers lack of features that I needed, but it was nothing personal against you or gadget users.
Just to make myself beyond clear what I said was that for sampling, chopping samples, sequencing samples, running samples through iaa fx and resampling there is no other iOS sampling beatmachine with a quicker,smoother workflow it's as simple as that. Oh yeah and it's piano roll has the best workflow too.
Now sampling isn't working for everyone's soundcard, but even just counting the internal sampling
From your iTunes library it's still quicker, sampling is working from the linen for some of us, and I also know of instances where sampling has worked and not worked on the same soundcard, all of this has been noted.
I'm not comparing the impc pro to gadgets synths, or to bm2 linear timeline, or to the other iOS beatmachine apps time stretching etc... It excels in what I listed above, not at anything else
@parallaxobject said:
Those things have all been mentioned to retro who knows how much they're listening or not we need more voices.
@mkell424 said:
Were you able to find the erase track option?
@firejan82 said:
I wish you would, especially on their fb and in their app reviews cause all I see is people giving them praise for all the stuff they've moved on to like that new synth and the wej thingy, by far they've had more success with the impc pro so wha.t they need to do is move on to addressing the issues ASAP
Parallax I hope you talk to them about the issues on their fb too, all I see is me over there asking them to fix shit and I don't really get why that is the case
@kobamoto Yes I found it. Thanks for the advice.
@parallaxobject said:
This stuff, particularly the musically specific tuning, are blockers for me.
@parallaxobject said:
This stuff, along with lack of transient detection in the chopper, are 'might as well use beatmaker' type things for me.
If I'm just making boom-bap stuff without needing to tune anything (or I find that 16 levels + live triggering is enough pitch variation), it's great. Once I need to set a pitch I get grumpy quickly. I get that it's supposed to recreate the MPC experience but it's not 1992 and Roger Linn would't release a device in 2014 with those sorts of pitch controls.
And while I can see why the automation per sequence is extremely cool, particularly for those with MPC backgrounds, it can be hard to wrap my wee linear brain around.
Still, no real complaints; it's a hell of a lot of app for under 20 bucks. I just don't really use it often because of all the stuff people mention in this thread.
Beatmaker can also handle 24bit samples, iMPC Pro cannot.
My favorite thing that beatmaker does is allow you to audition samples before you load them up, nobody else in iOS thought this feature might be useful, who wouldn't want to hear a sample first whilst browsing samples before you loaded it up into the sampler.
@syrupcore, imagine if beatmaker 2 was several pages instead of one page for mixer, fx, and automation settings and you could flip through the pages and apply them to your audio, or better yet I'm sure you have seekbeats, imagine if the snapshot feature from seekbeats was in an mpc pattern based sequencer... It's basically like that
I enjoy linear sequencing for other things like jamming away with a drummer and bass player etc..but for beatmaking I prefer a pattern based approach, like mpcs, elektron gear
Also it has more tuning than just the 16 levels, just go to the program page and tap on the tune knob to get finer tuning, maybe not what you're looking for but quite far from not being useful.
@para, that's a good point about 24bit samples, I don't use them but good point no less.
The reason I don't use beatmaker as much these days is because of the workflow, not the features. Beatmaker has more features than the impc pro by a mile.
@kobamoto said:
Nanostudio does.
Thanks. I'll try to approach it that way next time I open it. What do you do if you have two 2-measure sequences and want some thing to happen across both (contiguously)?
@kobamoto said:
It's not that you can't tune your face off in impc pro, it's that tuning isn't in musical terms. I have no idea what +16 means. Experiment until you find the pitch you want is fine if you dont have options but it ends up being the sort of thing I close the app over (because I do have options).
@syrupcore said:
I guess it depends on the details, but I would more than likely resample and replay the samples over a four bar pattern, unfortunately the impc pro doesn't have the merge pattern feature of those older hardware mpcs but like you said its 2014 so maybe retronyms will catch up one day.
@syrupcore said:
One thing I not understand that they did was when you tap the knob to ge the precision setting you can't tap the pads with your other hand, it's like the precision setting area takes up the whole screen. It just seems like if you wanted to increase workflow by having that feature that you would still make the pads accessible while using that feature, you don't need the whole screen for that