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.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Poll: Korg Gadget perf. on iPad2/3/mini1
I'm looking for feedback to decide whether or not to buy Korg Gadget.
- How satisfied are you with Korg Gadget performance on your iPad2/3/mini1?16 votes
- Elated18.75%
- Mostly satisfied37.50%
- Lukewarm6.25%
- Mostly unsatisfied6.25%
- Enraged0.00%
- N/A (I don't use Korg Gadget OR I have a different iPad model)31.25%
Comments
It's a brilliant app (by far the best iOS music app IMO). You should get it, no question IMO...
But beware it only really works with 4 tracks or so on an iPad2. I've long since upgraded to an Air1 and a Mini 2.
However - if you freeze tracks you might be able to get a bit more out of it, possibly a lot more out of it. And if you can, and you can make a track (or most of track) with 6-8 tracks, then you're away...
Have you got NanoStudio? If not that's another very good option and probably runs better on an iPad2.
You get 7 or 8 tracks on a first gen mini if you limit yourself to London/Bilbao and Marseille.
I think it's limited to 5 tracks on the iPad 2, and I could only manage 4. The latency was an issue for me.
If you suspect it might be a good fit for your process/workflow then it might also be reason enough to wash a few windows, blow a few jobs, and upgrade.
For me Gadget on my iPad Mini 1st Gen was just barely usable. I've since then upgraded to an iPad Air 2 and I'm very pleased with the performance I get from Gadet and just about every other app i throw at it
Kong Gadget might feel a bit expensive at first but it's easily worth it.
4-6 tracks on iPad2, so usable but you can't get too ambitious. But it's such a good app to work with and sounds great, and of course you can work around things. Looking forward to updating though, probably later this year, to use it's full potential.
It's a completely different app on the Air 2. A lovely thing. I'm now trying to get out if the habit of recording track by track into a DAW, and instead creating almost complete songs in it.
Put Module in the mix and I'm finding Gadget has a new lease of creative life...
Previously I've used Saltzburg and Monaco and loved them. Today I used the 'funky Clav' one and - wow... It got pretty funky.
+100 for investing in Gadget now. Presumably you'll get a new iPad sometime in the future...
Gadget makes a lot of stuff possible for me that wasn't possible before. I'm on iPad 4 and have never had an issue.
Looking forward to the day when Gadget goes full Maschine.
@solador78 I don't know Maschine. What particularly does it do that Gadget doesn't?
I love the NI midi controller that comes with Maschine (desktop version) and would want to be able to plug it into an ipad one day and use it with a proper version of iMaschine or Gadget (with the little lcd screens working). I find that that the 2.0 Maschine update brought some of the perks from Gadget that were missing (like scales), so the two pieces of software are looking more and more alike. Now we just need Gadget to become an inter-app audio host and get a long sample player, some channel strips, and an updated file system.
Funky Clav most certainly is. I pondered over getting Module at the time, but am very happy I did....
Yep. I pondered. Then it went half price. So I feel quite smug. I've oy scratched the surface yet, though.
Thanks for information, all. I will buy it and then start saving my pennies for a newer iPad. Maybe I need to take inspiration from a recent post and do a Police tribute to keep the track number within my iPad 3's abilities!
I don't think there are many folks who regret Gadget. And I can only speak for myself, but every so often I think "This is too simple (or simplistic)" but then I find my way back to it, because it's, sort of, simple.
As we talk more and more of workflow and making things/finishing things in all of our different styles, what it offers seems to be becoming increasingly valued.
Get it, and send something along to the Song of the Month Club
It's an awesome app. It's what got me interested in music making on the iPad in the first place. Bought an Air 2 just for this.
entered Phase 2 of my Gadget career by hooking up my Nektar Impact MIDI controller (ended up a $55 investment to get the requisite camera kit/powered USB hub), automation definitely more enjoyable w/ knobs.
Gadget revived my interest in the iPad. It'd been sitting unloved on a shelf for a year, mainly due to it's half hour battery life. I then saw a vid (probably Doug's) of Gadget and decided I had to have it. This forced me to upgrade my iOS, which fixed the battery issue, I then discovered Audiobus and my World became a noisier, sillier place.
Without Gadget I might not have got back into iOS music at all. It was a real game changer when it came out.
Great app and a lot of fun. It's restricted and limited in some areas but that also goes with simplicity and the focus on the track. I am using it with my iPad 3 and there are around 5-8 tracks possible. Freezing does help a lot after that but you have to wait a lot for this process, I am working on longer songs.
Gadget is for shure the most used app on my iPad.
Thanks again, everyone. I bought Gadget last night and started tinkering. Of course, instead of making music, spent WAY too much time failing to get my microKorg knobs to control the gadgets. :-) It's not like there's on-screen controls or anything I could have used instead (*cough*).
Anyway, I've since RTFM and think I will know what to do tonight to get the MIDI CC mapping worked out. Hoping I can also get Wolfsburg to not have such an extreme velocity curve when I play the external keyboard (i.e., I have to CRUSH the keys to get higher than whisper-level volumes).