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.
Alternative Forums?
I think it’s fair to allow the “Loopy Pro Forum” to be focused on @michael’s app.
But finding an alternative is hard.
@michael has a discord for the diehard seeking to message the developer and
chat with diehard users.
Looping is a very particular performance tool but @michael has added features
that taking the looping approach into areas that are closer to other sequencing
and recording apps.
If you participate in another forum or have the desire to stand up another forum
please drop a post here.
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In what way is this forum focused on Loopy Pro other than in name and in having it's own sub-topic (as do some other apps)? There's no limit to what people want to talk about other than relegating non-music, or contentious, discussions to this area.
The increasing Loopy Pro related threads is a result of the shifting number of people who are focused on it. That happened for a time with Logic Pro too. It faded. Loopy Pro topics may not fade, but will probably stay high or even increase. There is a ton of buzz on Youtube due to high profile loopers putting out videos of themselves using it. I can see how that would put off those who aren't interested in Loopy. It was that way for me when Logic Pro came out.
What kind of forum are you looking for? A music forum not named "Loopy Pro" and not focused primarily on mobile music making? Or, a forum focused primarily on music making in general? Or something focused on everything else? Or is this coming from disappointment over the lack of traction discussions in the Other category are getting? Or perhaps my request for you to limit politics to this category a few days ago?
Not that I need answers to any of those things. I'm just throwing them out there as prompts for you to perhaps better describe what you're looking for, in order to get better responses.
(btw, very sorry to say, but Facebook sounds like a general answer to what you may be after. You can find groups focused on anything in the world there. Ech. now I have to go wash the bad taste outta my mouth. )
Forums are pretty much a dying communication media these days. People are gravitating to other media such as Discord - which I really don't care for, but have learned to put up with to some extent.
btw, back when I was annoyed by the explosion of Logic Pro threads, I used the Follow options to follow all categories but Logic Pro. That worked out well for me, though if new categories were added I needed to add them to my followed topics.
If you're suffering from Loopy Pro overload, that might be a way to un-clutter your feed.
I wonder if anything ever came of @LinearLineman's effort to launch an alternative, no taboos forum.
“forums are dying” along with most of my peers so maybe that’s the heart of the issue. I think this forum had a better
conversational quality but I can imagine that most of that conversation was between a few key participants that have
left the regular interaction after getting frustrated by a new regime of moderation.
It’s a very well moderated forum, for sure. But the lack of interaction makes it a place I’m probably less interested in.
It’s still the best place to ask questions and wait for reliable answers.
Discord scratches the itch for conversation but there isn’t;t one that has that great mix of “regulars”. Finding a good
place to hang out is generally a problem.
So, I believe the best fox for me would be doing a better job making new friends here… that’s typically done by
responding to creations and supporting the artists or doing a great job responding with answers that include
a conversational question. as a general rule, we need more questions and more traffic around that new request.
I can’t imagine @linearlineman being successful bringing up a new forum unless there’s a forum for non-technical
users that want to be web publishers/landlords. He’s also slowed down on music creation and will reach 199 albums by
re-mastering and packaging his collection of well over 1000 tracks in his Cubasis folders.
End of an era, I’m afraid.
I still don't think you've made it very clear what you're looking for. A music focused forum that is far more free-wheeling than this? Or a completely free-wheeling forum where music topics sometimes come up.
Just continuing to prompt you like you were an AI (rather than a R(eal)I.
He mentioned at the time that he had someone willing to do the technical work and the hosting.
I doubt it. I bet he has more creative output still left in him than many of us have had in our whole lives so far.
Maybe you could start up some kind of group on Truth Social.
@McD @wim the simple answer is… things change. I’ve been at this for seven years, so I can only say I am grateful I found the right spot at the right time. There’s no intrinsic reason the forum now should be anything different than what it is. It’s interesting that fora, in general, are losing popularity. Is that so?
As for me, I don’t know if there’s more creative juice to flow into music. When one is bored with oneself, lol, one must honor that boredom! I’ve expressed the shit out myself thanks to this forum and iOS. So, nothing to complain about. Honestly, I don’t know what more I can express, musically, than I already have. To go on “might” be like finishing a concert and then insist on taking endless encores.
In the end the fun was in the excitement of creating using very unexpected tools. Since the source of my creativity is something other, I can’t object if that other just doesn’t want to come to the party at the moment. Perhaps that energy will go somewhere else. There is a girl… maybe it will go there.
Lol, at 77 I could use some supernatural help!
Bottom line, all good and grateful. Good luck @McD with the wife’s upcoming surgery. There are still a lot of friends for you here that wish you the best.
@LinearLineman - I have just the thing for you. Let's learn Mozaic programming together. 😎
Seriously though, it's great to hear from you.
And @McD - I do hope you find the kind of online interaction you're looking for.
Back at ya @wim!
I post on a few other forums. Vi-Control is a good place that focuses on serious orchestral mockups and movie soundtrack material. Lots of high end hardware and software. I'm a bit out of place with my little iPad, but they seem to tolerate me. KVRaudio Music Cafe is another good one. I haven't yet figured out what their specialty is. The thing I have found about the Loopy Pro Forum is that it seems to be the most diverse, and the most talkative. It's so easy to get a little back and forth chat going. We take our music seriously, but not ourselves. Although we have never met in person, I feel like I have made a few friends here. I've had a recurring dream of meeting everyone in Nashville one day. First round is on me!
Exactly this! I love that character about this place.
I just hooked up with a new forum and have been posting a few things there. Check it out.
https://songwriterandproducer.net/community/forums/recorded-songs-mix-and-or-composition-review.16/
I’m not ready to produce an share songs… unless they allow “free speech” (just kidding, I’m sure they don’t want to
read my rants on the top 3 dictators of the month).
They do have a section called "Off-Topics", but it only has 9 threads. One is about chronic pain and it's effect on writing music. Another is about the reality of a career in music. There is one called "Where's the drama?". That one spun off into a discussion about Mountain Dew. The general consensus is summed up in a quote by Yogi Berra - Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Gotta love Yogi!
Here are a few of my favorites...
You can observe a lot by just watching.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
I never said most of the things I said.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Pair up in threes.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Never answer an anonymous letter.
It gets late early out here.
Could someone (quickly/easily) explain the point of Discord? I've looked at it only briefly so not sure what I'm supposed to do with it.
I'm on that sometimes but it's very commercially/ad oriented compared with this place, which is one of the great things about it here. It's amazing to NOT have ads all over the pages. Also, with Vi-Control, if you don't have the most expensive, up to date sound libraries, etc., you're less credible or interesting.
I still enjoy this forum but posting here just seems less compelling to me for multiple reasons. I don't have the persistence to make myself a "presence" here and when I do post something, I often feel invisible anyway. That's my fault I guess.
But actually, I've been having better 'conversations' now with AI. Not personal, emotionally rich conversations😘 - but they can be intellectually stimulating. And I always get a response! 😂
I'm not sure I understand the question. The point - as in the purpose of it? Or are you asking what it's like in general?
It's basically just a host platform for discussion boards ("Servers") with more features than something like this forum. In addition to threaded discussions, can include text, voice, and video chat. They're more geared toward real-time communication than basic forums.
I make zero use of the real time communication aspect. I use it just like I do a forum.
sorry to be vague. I've only used it for signing up with some ai stuff. All I see is one big list of posts in chronological order. Everything seems to get pushed down as more are added so I wonder how anyone sees or knows what has been asked or discussed previously. Or how discussions are kept track of. Or even who am I writing to if I post something?
Please don't bother answering this. I'll probably get it eventually if I have to ; but I'll also probably just keep avoiding it.
Yeah, it’s more geared toward real time communication than threading and archival information. You can
@people, and start threads, but it’s up to people to do all that and often they tend not to. Can’t say I care for it at all.That is the best policy. Avoid unless you can’t any more. 😉