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.
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Isn’t the Pro version the 3rd version of Loopy?
1. Loopy
2. Loopy HD
3. Loopy Pro
as I recall. Sometimes, the use a Looping app on the Tonight Show that really helped @michael (our host here) sell enough apps
to survive for a few years.
We’re starting a “Deep Dive into Loopy Pro” thread and @espiegel123 is a prized resource for sharing best practices for Loopy pro. He also does this pro bono support on other social networks, I have noticed.
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/65616/august-app-going-deep-with-loopy-pro-for-anyone-that-hasn-t-started-learning-it#latest
See… good to know that it’s not just your Grand Pa’s Boss Pedal.
@wagdog
I used to use AUM a lot back in Summer 2022 when I created a lot of live Ambient experiments, and @iOSTRAKON made use of AUM for a lot of his amazing live jams as well.
These days, I use AUM to either sample AUv3 oneshots directly into Koala if I'm producing something entirely in Koala, or just record oneshots which are automatically stored into a corresponding folder in AudioShare, which I can then copy over to a project folder in FL Studio Mobile.
So in short, it all depends what you want to use AUM for.
I do everything from start to finish in AUM… 591 tracks and counting 🧮
Timeline DAWs overload me with information and I enjoy the mental challenge of arranging different instruments etc in AUM…
but that’s probably just my weird brain 🧠
I often load multiple instances of LP using separate lanes of AUM (including using the effects slots - in which case you can be recording straight into it). Great for jamming - especially being able to utilise the shorter loop quantise times within LP….. nice.
It depends a lot on your natural creative style. AUM is perfect for live jamming and improvising, and throwing a setup together very quickly, but if you are after a more linear, timeline or loop-based approach, there are better options. AUv3s can add linear and loop-based finctionality to AUM and it's easy to route them, but it's not AUM's native language.
I suspect Loopy Pro 2 could cover much of what AUM does, but Loopy Pro 2 is yet another technical mountain I don't have the will to climb just yet - too many other demands on my time and mental energies right now, but I suspect if I did, it would be worthwhile.
AUM remains my go-to for the timebeing.
That’s two of us. I rarely use a linear DAW, and when I do it tends to be for finishing/polishing or if I’m working on a piece that’s hard to do in AUM - the latter are few and far between, and have mainly been very short pieces with a strict time constraint. Most of my stuff is set up in AUM and recorded “live” straight to stereo.
Worth noting that AUM is really useful for integrating hardware and software if you have a hybrid setup, only limitation being that it really needs to be the master clock (it doesn’t have MIDI clock in, just clock out).
Bottom line is that it has multiple uses and even if it’s not your main environment it’ll come in handy at some point. Everyone works differently but AUM is a useful tool to have in your toolbox.
AUM is great, although I haven't had a need to open it since Loopy Pro was released. If you already have Loopy Pro, Its only necessary to get AUM if you need the few features @espiegel123 mentioned at the top of the thread.
IMHO, Loopy Pro will never replace AUM, simply because they are such different apps. Even if LP got all the features AUM already has, it’s completely right to have them both.
And I agree, if someone can’t see the benefit or workflow of AUM, it’s better to stay away and save the money for donuts. 😅
Currently I have decided I need it for jamming!
I do t want to set up a whole daw to use an instrument to play with a friend (:
-Effects
-Input
-Software sequencers
For those who finish tracks in AUM, whats your workflow? Do you record yourself playing live?
I record myself playing live… if I cock up (frequently) I do it again, it’s good practise.
I never record or edit midi.
If I’m patient and want to add a lead part to a backing track at say 3 minutes then I’ll just sit there for 3 minutes and then have a go.
If I’m impatient I’ll wind the backing track forward 3 minutes using the AUM File Player Beat Offset and start recording my lead part immediately.
When I come to mix it together then the backing File Player Beat Offset gets reset to zero and the Lead gets delayed 3 minutes with its Beat Offset.
@oscillotus Xequence + AUM. Freeze the midi tracks/ record as audio. Then start a new session with just those tracks, and add any others for recording live audio. Rinse repeat and mix
AUM is a great app AND -- since the original question was about whether AUM is needed besides Loopy Pro (which OP is already using) -- I'd like to add a perspective that may not be obvious.
No question that AUM is an easy and flexible environment for jamming. But so is Loopy Pro -- and many people that haven't spent much time with Loopy Pro (especially recently) might not realize that it is also flexible and easy to get jams going in. This takes nothing away from AUM but those that have spent months or years using AUM might not realize that Loopy Pro is also great for those things. I think many with only passing familiarity with Loopy as a host don't realize how simple and flexible it is.
Yes - but that’s only the start. You can then import each channel into something like Cubasis 3 to edit, chop & arrange etc. Not many people will finish a track in AUM though it is of course possible.
@yellow_eyez - thank you so much for that awesome reply. Actually, thanks to everyone here. I’m learning so much from all of your replies.
Sorry I saw your question, but didn't bother to read any reponses..... because AUM is essential. Just buy it! It's literally one of the foundational apps of exploring music creation on iOS. Get it. Have fun!
AUM is a must-buy for iOS / iPadOS music making. If I was starting over, it would be the first app I’d buy.
In my case, yes. I very rarely do overdubs, I just record takes until I get it as close to right as I can. Though if I’m still messing up after 3 takes I usually rethink and simplify, as it’s usually because I’ve got too much going on.
I often find the first take has the edge, though, warts and all, and occasionally I’ll edit the recording if I’ve messed up, as it’s usually towards the end. I’ve also “rescued” some recordings by running them through the file player and messing with the EQ and tools like Bark Filter. That’s the approach I’d take to mastering, too, I think, though so far I’ve not done much of that.
This way of working obviously won’t work for a lot of people, though. I’m a firm believer in finding a method and tool set that works for you, irrespective of how others work.
Thanks so much @GeoTony @mjcouche @robosardine @bygjohn, I appreciate your ideas. They give me fresh takes on how to approach this, finishing songs is one big weakness of mine...
Just to add to the conversation, remember that if you want to try the (imho) best linear DAW on iOS, you can subscribe for free to Logic Pro for one month and then see if it fits your needs.
I think AUM is to me one kind of presentation layer and nice to use mixer. And like noticed here one of the key apps in iPad musician world. But now after building some huge templates to Loopy Pro, I'm feeling AUM more forgotten. And I can kind of mimic it inside my template(s) and have possibility to use more "graphics" and modify it in my own way.. Still I believe that will have a project e.g. like with multi-out Koalas in it or creating huge, really huge sounds with multi effects.. Afterall I'm a appoholic and have them all, sorry for provocation - Just sharing my thought and opinion
I've created stuff I like in AUM, Logic Pro, Loopy Pro, and Note. The thing that strikes me with those four is that the results are quite a bit different between all of them. So I keep them all around, because there's something I value in each of them, even if I can't quite put a finger on it. The workflows are different enough from one another that it influences the outcome. There are other iOS apps that I've never really clicked with (including some that folks on this forum love passionately) so I don't keep those around.
You might click with AUM, and you might not. But it's different enough from pretty much anything else out there that it's worth checking out.
One pro to AUM is how standard it is in tutorials. So many YouTube plugin tutorials are done inside AUM and for good reason. It’s very easy to visually see routings and easy to set up. It’s definitely doable to wrap your head around the concepts in other hosts if you understand well enough, but it’s a very valuable learning tool imo.
100% agree! 😌
What is a good linear time line loopbased non jamming daw/app?
Thanks
I own a hardware yamaha rs7000. Would love to see a sequencer alike on ios
GarageBand is free. It’s good, if you can put up with the cutesy interface.
Logic Pro is as full featured as you get in an iOS DAW. You either love it or hate it. At any rate, you can try it for a month for free.
Cubasis is a great middle ground between those two. It’s not as full featured as a desktop, but has most of the essentials.
Also look at using apematrix in conjunction with Loopy. Imho
I haven’t picked up either, yet. I’ve spent most (actually all) of my time in loopy pro and haven’t found there is something I need to do that I can’t.
I’ve read every reply here and appreciate the insight everyone has offered.