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.
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@wim those reasons are why I love Cem's sequencers so much which reminds me- if anyone is looking for a stable, lightweight generative sequencer that allows for deep editing, MUSEBUD is a great pickup.
It's inspiring, and super easy to edit.
You're right @egobeats - Cem's apps make saving, copying, and setting up new patterns really easy. You can get a bunch of variations in just seconds. It's nice they all work the same way too.
Do you have any favorites you’d recommend? I have funcbud, auto bass, polybud, Euclid and ChordBud. I’m a big fan and have enjoyed building up a small library of @cem_olcay apps.
Harmonicc is pretty darn good for getting interesting "adult" chord progressions going if you're into that kind of thing. tbh, I don't have all of Cem's apps, and don't use the ones that I do as much as you might think. I just don't often think of reaching for them.
Waymaker is just the perfect sequencer for me for non drums sequencing. I hardly reach for anything else except for Octachron and Drambo anymore. tbh, I'm more into jamming my own stuff in than in sequencing patterns these days.
I need to sit down and work on figuring Waymaker out. All three of those apps tbh. I have fun every time I open them and typically like how things sound but I’m not 100% sure on how the three tie together.
How did you end up getting along with Fugue Rubato? That’s probably my favorite sequencer but I’m not sure how to flesh anything I make out beyond one idea. I wish you could have different scenes like in Octachron. Maybe you can and I’m not sure how to go about it.
My goal with sequencers (and all of iOS production) was ultimately making electronic music with electric guitar/bass, but I’ve enjoyed the sequencer + synth rabbit hole. I need to work on bringing it all together. I still haven’t found a great workflow to bring sequencers and instrumentation together.
@FizzyLizzy27 - I don't have Fugue Rubato. Too rich for my blood and it didn't really seem like it would be my kind of thing anyway.
I'm pretty much the same as you when it comes to combining sequencer based and played instrumentation together. I gravitate to one or the other, rarely combining them.
Waymaker is incredible and very complex. I am always blown away @aqeelaadam demonstrations, I have yet to replicate a 1/4 of any of it despite step by step tutorials. The irony is the amount of control he gives you, everything I generate from it feels accidental. Still an amazing pickup and great stuff in the works.
Also, while not a traditional sequencer, Piano Motifs has a very good sequencing engine and is my go to for when I’m depressed which is the majority of time, lol.
I find it to be very inspiring for when you “ think” of a nice progression and want a plethora of interpretations of it. I fkn love sequencing. Notes, chords, blips, boops, ticks, images, words, I find that sequencing taps into that reptilian part of our minds that looks for what’s to come next.
+1! Taken as a whole, they’re like a modular network of sequencing possibilities especially in AUM.
I would love to see an iOS sequencer that has the same functionality as the Max for Live device Sting 2 from iftah.
Four pages in and nobody’s mentioned Sunv… I mean Gadget
I’m scratching my head trying to find my favorite host for sequencers.
AUM works well for me and maybe I should just stick with that. I wish it had native MIDI recording and a timeline without finagling something together like MIDI Mixer, MIDI Tape Recorder, etc. The midi matrix is my favorite part of using AUM with sequencers, arpeggiators, and anything MIDI related.
I’m sure Loopy Pro is plenty capable but I just haven’t been able to gel with it. Drambo kind of the same but I’ve gotten along better with that. Seems like it would be better as a sequencer than being a host for one.
Groove Rider 2 stands out to me and I would like to get into that. For the MIDI side it seems like a good playground but I’m really wanting audio recording to be a feature.
I mentioned SAND Sequencer earlier - another one I wish had audio in.
Cubasis 3 is solid. It takes up a lot of space and I still need to get a better handle on MIDI routing and recording. Similar story with Logic Pro, but I’ve preferred Cubasis 3 workflow. The menu systems in Cubasis make more sense to me.
Maybe LumaFusion* is the hidden gem I haven’t tried sequencer auv3s with 🙃 There’s a new DAW project for you @jwmmakerofmusic - I know you like working with eclectic DAWs for fun challenges.
Audio Evolution looked promising but apparently can’t route MIDI between tracks.
ApeMatrix seems very capable with MIDI plugins. With some practice I could see this being a great host for sequencers.
My “unit test” is to load up Fugue Machine Rubato and route MIDI to multiple tracks. In a perfect hybrid workflow the host app could handle a setup like that in a fairly straightforward manner, can record MPE, multi-out plugin support, tracks with audio recording, a timeline, hardware audio input, and a fairly small footprint.
Sorry if going down a rabbit hole of Sequencer hosts is too off topic. I just hope that someone who is more experienced might have insight into their setups. If it’s straying too far from the OP it could be its own thread.
Lol, yes, that can only handle FX plugins, mate.
BUT, it is my favourite video editing app, so you're not too far off from knowing my tastes. 😊
Currently I'm stuck on FL Studio Mobile, which has no AUv3 hosting capabilities. But, it works perfect for my Ambient experiment needs. In short, I f-cking love it.
AUM, GR-II, and Cubasis 3 are some of my favourite sequencer hosts. AUM for live Ambient recording, GR-II for a more hardware-inspired workflow, and Cubasis 3 as my favourite "trad DAW" on iOS. Logic Pro is a good one too, but like you, I prefer Cubasis' menu systems.
Can gadget host?
Nope.
Oh.
I think I would like Sand the best
if it was working right.
I'm finding Drambo a very good experience for midi mapping with my hardware. It seems to me it is the must advanced one accordingly to my needs. Some of them:
Mute/Solo pads per channel with Toggle
Next - Previous scene from my REW-FRW buttons
A semi-workaround for Fill trigger
Toogle Play button
Also, its able to P-Lock basically any plugin parameteer.
The step sequencer is better for me than that of Prism or BAM, because I can see all the bars without moving between pages.
As for today, the most similar experience than that of an Elektron box. Obviously not the same. Some things worst, some things better.