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At least Retronyms seem to be aware of the CCK/USB-Audio Bug.
The 'workaround' works but is hardly an acceptable solution since the USB-Device need to be un-plugged & re-plugg when switching between playback and recording every single time
"Retronyms: Are you referring to when connecting iMPC Pro to a dock or something using the camera connection kit? If so this is a known bug. A temporary workaround you can open your session then unplug and replug the iPad to your dock or whatever is connected to get audio going out."
(That's a cut out from recent discussion on their FB-Page).
I suggested that if it's a know bug it should be corrected asap.
If we're lucky we'll have a fix within a month or two
@firejan82 said:
what I told Aleyas is that it doesn't have envelopes like it does for amp and filter, there's no way around that until they put some in… but you can still automate the pitch in several ways, via knobs or the tuning slider. not an envelope but it changes the pitch while the sample is playing.
@kobamoto You mean you can hear the pitch of the sample changing as the sample is playing? like in a pitch bend sort of way? How do you do this in iMPC Pro?
move the note variation slider and choose tuning in the popup box, then while triggering pads move the slider, if you want you can also record this into the sequencer.
That would just play the sample in a different pitch each time the sample is triggered, that's not what I meant.
Lol, we need a 'Scratch The Sample' feature in iMPC Pro
@Samu Is that a response to my posts? Because I'm not asking for any features or complaining about a lack of any features, that's not what I'm doing.
@firejan82 said:
Nope, It's really a general response because I've been looking for a 'pitchbend', since it can be used to simulate tape start/stop and other very useful effects including scratching.
I'm sorry if you felt like it was directed at you, that was not the purpose
@Samu Haha, cool, I felt very misunderstood there for a while.
yeah I know that's not what you wanted firejan82 but until retronyms adds that 3rd envelope there will only be the two currently available. Definitely ask them on their Facebook page … the more the merrier
Is there anyone here running os 8 that has impc pro, if so how is it working with your audio interface and what kind of audio interface do you have?
I'm using iMPC Pro with Behringer UCA202 on my Non-Retina iPad Mini running iOS8.1.1.
No major problems except the previously mentioned USB Audio-Interface issues
After UnPlug and RePlug it's possible to do sampling using USB-Audio Interface but playback is still from the internal speaker/headphone jack and there no way to monitor incoming signal, the level-meters are active but output is muted/disabled, if/when they enable/add monitoring I'm happy and can live with using the iPad headphone jack for playback & monitoring while doing the recording with the Behringer UCA202...
I use ICM2+ and occasionally it stops working. What I find also when I first plug it in the midi activity goes crazy for about 30 secs, dont know what causes it?
Anyway I went back to try and get another track done and despite some crashes cracked this out.
@Samu said:
Wait, so you can't monitor the incoming signal at all whilst recording, not from the iPad headphone jack or the uca's? What about when your not recording, setting the threshold etc, Because I'm going to be sampling primarily from records so if I can just cue everything up and then hit record I can probably live with the unplugging and muting issues for the time being.
@Jackshg said:
iMPC Pro doesn't output any 'monitor signal' to the external USB Device nor the HeadPhones/Speaker on the iPad.
It is possible to turn on 'Direct Monitoring' on the UCA-202 (hardware switch) but what we hear is the signal before any AD/DA...
Apps like BM2 and even AudioShare have monitor toggle in software and it works perfectly by outputting what the iPad gets from input to the output...
Even when we can get iMPC Pro to 'sample' external sources (without monitoring) it insist on outputting sound to headphones/speakers of the iPad and not the external USB-Device unless unplug and replug the device and then it's unplug and replug to sample again, hardly a practical solution...
I've sent en E-Mail to Dan at Retronyms as he requested peoples help with external USB-Devices in a post at Dischord.com, no reply yet...
Yup I have the Griffin studio connect with lightning interface and it works with every single other app I own , and that is a ton of them, yet impcpro can not manage to get an update for a fix after all of the time it has been out.
I just tried iMini (Ported to iOS by Retronyms) as it has a the possibility to route in External Audio thru the filters and it works perfectly with my Behringer ACU-202.
So what iMPC Pro needs is proper Core Audio support (Input & Output) and a software 'Monitor Switch' to output the input to the output for monitoring purposes when sampling, or even mixing in 'iMPC Pro Output' with live-input.
Once the monitor switch and proper Core Audio Support is in place in iMPC Pro I'll write a positive review in the App Store.
If that makes my Griffin work as it should with Impc pro then I would join the bandwagon perhaps also.
what I'm doing until then is getting all of my audio into the impc pro via other methods and then using the internal sampling feature and it's working really great under the circumstances, at first I thought I was going to hate that but all the korg gadget users raved about how not getting audio into gadget properly wasn't any big deal so I gave it a try. to tell you the truth since I'm so used to direct sampling into the beatmachine i'm using it took a minute to get used to it but once you get your audio onboard you at least get to cross over from nightmare land into sampling and sequencing dreamland.
still I don't like recording audio via 3rd partys, I think this will get addressed before anything else cause what I found out in the last couple of days is that most people don't know about the core audio issue, even though we've been talking about it over here and Samus been screaming about it before anyone I think but allot of people were shocked to find out about it.
anyways get your audio onboard like you do with gadget, and then sample internally.
you will love it.
No thanks to the sampling dreamland as you called it lol. That is not what I paid for and it is in fact a nightmare in comparison no matter how much you try and dress it up.
Kind of sounds like putting lipstick on a pig in fact. It is still just a pig as far as a sampler. When a sampler does not in fact sample but only imports samples then it is a sample player. Impc pro is a sample player until fixed. Samu is correct this needs a fix and in a big way.
I don't think you're reading what I've written, I said it samples internally, I i didn't say import. I sample from my library, and i sample from IAA, the issue that Samu and I have been talking to retronyms about is the core audio issue affecting the sound cards.
lipsticks pigs and dressing up don't enter into this
Lol at sampling internally! Ahh, ok then! Not much of a sampler if it only samples internally really is it? Sample player yes. Sampler, no .
what are you comparing it to Tritonman2?
seems to be good enough for all of us korg gadget users who use it to process samples for gadget, as a matter of fact I thought you loved gadget, it doesn't sample from your audio cards inputs either.
seems like allot of unwarranted animosity towards the fact that I like using the app.
whether it's a sampler or a sample player, it's an instrument/tool.. I know how to use it so I play it, and it compensates for allot of other apps and helps with them as well. When the issues I brought up to retronyms at that thread on discchord that samu referred to are addressed then it will be an even much better app.
Gadget is not a sampler sorry for your not understanding. You can buy a sampler of sorts although without external sampling it also would be considered a sample player .
Come to think of it, gadget never claimed it could sample line in as a selling point . I also did not realize you spoke for "all of us gadget users ", not that gadget has anything to do with this. Your paranoia as to others animosity does not really apply here either, you will need someone else to adress that issue for you as my complaints are about a sampler that just wont work as an external sampler and in no way should be taken as a reflection on you. I like you but I want the sampler to be fixed soon so it works like it should as a sampler is all. I might even download it again if it ever does get addressed after all of this time.
is this a pattern or what?
"i said good enough for all of us korg gadget users who use it to process samples for gadget" …… I did not say anything about speaking fore all gadget users.
it's right above you in my post, the one that you half heartedly quoted.
that's not paranoia that's just bad quoting on your part, and like you i want the core audio issue fixed as well, if you read that thread Samu referred to you would know that already.
Yes this is a pattern unfortunately ,lol . A lot of us do not like being sold one thing and then getting another. If you were speaking for yourself fine but that is not what you said, your own quote is there. My quote was whole hearted not half as you claimed and core audio still does not work correctly after all this time! I get that You are loving the app but as you now know , others do not feel the same way. Just accept this because it is not going to change for anyone anytime soon. Please try to understand it has nothing to do with you, it is the app. Gadget has absolutely zero to do with this of course, this is about the shortcomings of impc pro only and not meant to slight you just because you happen to like it.
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/12/4/retronyms-build-phase84-perform-view.html#comment21135114
What is truly sad , is that virtually every other developer has worked out the interface situation , from the smallest to the largest yet Retronyms can not figure it out. Really?
They sure as hell do not want it to work with Audiobus and given their proclivity to enjoy playing with themselves I am not sure they even want to fix this issue anymore than they want to get on the bus. Very well, but they have to play with themselves until they learn to play with others as far as I am concerned. Again, nothing personel but this is ridiculous for them to show such little intent to fix it. Now that I look at it further the comments about the circle jerk with retronyms in the above thread from discchord is even more hilarious. They really do like playing with themselves it would appear.
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