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Yeah, when tracks are at a premium, I can see why a stereo drum track would work better for you. Unless you're doing Primal Drum Therapy, gotta leave as many tracks as possible for the music.
Good suggestion, thanks! I've tried the "delay rather than reverb" theory on vocal tracks with some success, but oddly, it never occurred to me to apply the same thinking to recreate room mics for percussion. Look forward to giving this a whirl
@eustressor Cannot fault your Wednesday night enthusiasm Mister Stress
I see where you're coming from. It would certainly speed up mixing to wrap up the drums with confidence and move on to instruments and vocals.
However, I recently listened to "Spirits in the Material World" for the first time in a long time and was blown away by just how LOUD Stewart Copeland's snare was in the mix. In pure db, I'm confident it was about twice as loud as anything else in the mix, including the kick drum and even the vocals. That's an extreme example, and while I wouldn't always want the snare that loud, to me it underscores why I prefer separate drum tracks for each voice. There's a certain amount of call and response between percussion and melody I like to aim for, and I can't fathom achieving that in a mix if the drums are locked in. I may need to pump the ride and leave the rest of the kit alone. Stems allow me that dynamic flexibility.
Put another way, I have a horrible fear of commitment
What can I say? In a close race, stems are actually in the lead right now!
Believe me, I REALLY wish more drum machines and sequencers allowed for this. Currently, I have to solo every drum part in London and export each in turn to get my stems into Auria. Probably the main reason I haven't tackled building a proper Bilbao kit yet ... Then it would be up to 16 separate exports, and I'm so lazy I make Jeff Lebowski look like Elon Musk
@eustressor Completely valid points and specifically the mentioned interplay between percussion x melody makes total sense for employing stems. I forgot to note that I'm making music that is Mostly about the beats and am trying to learn to "trust the mojo" of When Something Sounds Good It's Good rather than default to a "it can't be this easy" attitude which leads to over-complicated mixing and ultimately losing the plot.
(airing my personal struggle there but to me that's often what stereo vs stems type decisions come down to lately)
potential book title: 'Master vs Stems: The Chess of Commitment and Programming'
Or:
According to Brown, the inspiration for "Get Up Offa That Thing" came to him during a club performance in Fort Lauderdale:
The audience was sitting down, trying to do a sophisticated thing, listening to funk. One of the tightest bands they'd ever heard in their lives, and they were sitting. I had worked hard and dehydrated myself and was feeling depressed. I looked out at all those people sitting there, and because I was depressed they looked depressed. I yelled, "Get up offa that thing and dance til you feel better!" I probably meant until I felt better.
Unlike most popular music of the time, which made sophisticated use of multitrack recording and other techniques, "Get Up Offa That Thing" was recorded live in the studio in only two takes.
Normally on my laptop with a DAW I tend to use stems for all my drum work, just gives you more options to tweak during the mixdown. But on the iPad I tend to favor just using a stereo drum track, I record it and just move on. You can always edit a stereo drum track quite a bit with the tools we have today. Saves CPU power on the iPAd, and really not much different from how I used to record hardware drum machines too.
@JohnnyGoodyear ..as if the music wasn't inspiring enough.. those backstories just knock me right out.
Amazing.
^^ yeah, I like to be able to change anything anytime too without having to start over again
its great when you can back to an old unfinished project and tweak it until u like it
i prefer having midi tracks instead of audio
change the key, change the sound, change the style, lol
Are you exporting stereo tracks or doubled mono stems (which would be 8 separate exports per Bilbao or 4 per London instance)? To me, exporting stereo tracks seems like it would be a lot less useful than mono stems.
I hear you. O Auria Pro, Where Art Thou?
Actually, using copy/paste, each soloed drum voice lands in Auria as a stereo track, so I get 8 stereo tracks out of London. I'm aware mono tracks are widely considered best practice, but that commitment thing ... Hate giving up audio information, even if it largely goes unused in the final analysis
Ok got it. I don't have Auria, so I wasn't sure how you were handling the export/import. Thanks!
I know you know but I gotta say it. If the sounds in London are mono (I can't remember) and you're not capturing them with some sort of stereo effect applied, you're not losing anything by converting them to mono. You're gaining resources and hard drive space!
@syrupcore Too true. You know I know but it certainly bears repeating. I recently created a song outside of Gadgetopia with about 15 voices from SampleTank, all mono, and lost nothing.
Just need to tame my stereo trigger finger when I add tracks to Auria!
NO STEMS FROM BILBAO?!?
No solo/mute buttons for the pads. Looks like I'll have to do the same thing I did with Genome, sorta ... In this case, copy and paste voices from the stereo track into multiple instances of Bilbao.
Can someone please tell me I'm wrong?
Turn the Start knobs all the way up?
Hey, thanks for that! It works ... Inelegantly, perhaps, but far better than stripping eleven parts across 11 instances of Bilbao 9 scenes deep, which I was about to do ... Or was I about to trash my studio?
We're adding the ability to do a simpler save of the 16 tracks from Diode-108. Not in 1.3.0, which has had its feature set frozen, but probably in the release after that.
Hey, thanks for the heads up! Looking forward to something handier than solo/export/solo/export etc., although to be fair, that's what I currently do in Gadget.
For sure! I understand the pain of 16 solo saves. :-)
But what about phase?
Phase?
@eustressor but Gadget exports all the tracks as separate files no?
@Jocphone Not if you want your drum stems from London or Bilbao in separate tracks, alas.
@eustressor ah yes, of course, got ya. Could you export the midi out?
@eustressor although you wouldn't get the fx automation.
@Jocphone I don't think Gadget supports MIDI out yet, but even if it did, I'd probably be totally lost. Complete midiot. Thank god these apps automagically recognize my keyboard or I'd just be standing there staring at my screen, dumbfounded and defeated