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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@ecou..I hate you..Right when I’m trying to talk myself out of buying the new live 3 you post THIS 😉*
*joking of course (opening salvo)
It’s interesting where this discussion has been going, a lot of it is really resonating with me. Some of my opinions/observations:
Loopy Pro is incredible and powerful, and definitely counts as a DAW. That said it seems like it really shines as a performance tool vs. a production workstation.
AUM is an amazing playground/sandbox and I love playing in there and coming up with gorgeous textures and little snippets, but for me it’s hard to take something to a “complete” state in that environment. Great for sound design and mastering plugins though. LK or LP can give you clip launching and even a timeline in Loopy’s case
The other big DAWs all have their charms, but none really stack up to desktop equivalents. And on desktop I’ve gravitated toward Ableton Live.
So mostly these days, I’m using Ableton Note on iPad along with a Move and Live on Mac. And mucking around in AUM when I want to play with iOS plugins. IMO Note is a great iOS app and a lot of fun, and (for me) productive. But it is not a DAW. It’s a groovebox that feeds in to a DAW.
My bad 😉
Which one of my post as caused hatred? I have posted multiple times.
Just to add a random voice to the crowd - I’ve been making music for about 35 years, started on an Amiga running Music-X, through PCs with Cubasis, Acid, Macs with Logic. I’ve been on iPads for the last 6 or 7 years on Auria and now Cubasis 3.
Cubasis 3 has everything I need for a linear timeline based DAW. Yes, multi out fx would be nice, proper sends and returns, all the rest of it, but it’s stable, easy to use and comparable to what top-end computers could do a few years ago.
I’m old, making fairly straightforward tracks with drums, guitars, a couple of synths, that sort of thing. Cubasis fits the bill for me better than anything else I’ve tried. Probably not the best for loop-based performers/producers but that’s probably why Loopy Pro exists- it’s a different tool for a different job.
@klownshed : That was a powerful testimony on behalf of Logic Pro 4 iPad . Well done
This thread is crazy because I feel like I'm so spoiled for choice that it's hard to choose one option and just get busy writing, recording and releasing music.
I've got a Mac as well, I own pretty much every DAW at the flagship level (besides ProTools) and I don't feel restrained at all by the iPad DAW offerings.
I love Loopy Pro, Logic, Zenbeats, Cubasis, the whole lot on iPad tbh.
It's genuinely hard for me to just choose one and stick with it because the iPad ecosystem for music is awesome.. and affordable.
atm I like Loopy Pro for live stuff and pretty much just rotate with everything else because I haven't settled on one main DAW for recording with. I've been leaning towards Zenbeats more and more lately though. The other are awesome but there's something about Zenbeats that's just easy to work with, and I've got a total soft spot for the instruments and sounds in there so eh.
Exactly!
In the old days when i owned my Tascam 688 Midi Studio, and mind you, this was a Pro level Cassette recording studio that was able to lay down 8 Audio tracks on a single standard cassette!!!
I did so many songs on that thing! Connected via midi to an old Korg i30 Interactive Music Workstation and I had 16 midi tracks in the Korg workstation! That coupled with the 8 analog audio tracks and I was making music nonstop!
Then, thr PC studio bug bit me!
Pugin after plug in, never made a single complete song! There was just so much to test, to learn…. Nonstop noodling! Well you know the story!
Then, the iPad came along with Auria Pro, Cubasis and Roland Zenbeats! These DAWs reminded me a lot of the old plug and record system I had with my 8 track Tascam 688!
I get more done now on my iPad then on any PC! I tried PC but it really felt like work! I dealt with PCs all day amd was sick of them!
The iPad just brings fresh air to my creative process and I honestly believe having limited resources just like I had with my Tascam 688
Allows for even more creativity!
This is just my humble opinion and experience!
I do wish i’d never sold my Tascam 688 though!
Hey, I had one of those 688’s! That and a Korg 01w/fd. Such a great multitrack the 688 was. I’ve always regretted getting rid of it.
Awesome! Yeah it was really impressive! Loved the Metering System how it looked so pro level for the time! So well ahead of its time!
Now I have the Tascam Model 12 which brings back memories of my 688 but of course the metering is on the small LCD.
Works great though amd has that old Tascam Pro feel too!
I'm a simple man. One of the most important things for me is to be able to capture any audio that is playing back in realtime and to then be able to chop/arrange and edit that audio (with and **without ** shifting mush). For that BM3 wins. I think a lot of people see it as a 'beats' thing but when I look at the hoops people jump through in other hosts on iOS, I wager a lot of creatives would love the sampling/pad triggering workflow and could use it for many styles and goals.
Cool. I had (still have somewhere) a Fostex R8 reel to reel 8 track with full MIDI control. After striping the tape, the tape machine would follow the SPP in Logic automatically. You could even set it to punch in on a loop and keep going until you nailed it. There was a fair bit of lag as the tape machine caught up with logic though :-)
The reason I first got the first version of Logic, which was Emagic Notator Logic back then, is that it could talk to the Fostex. Opcode Vision only spoke MTC, not Fostex’ proprietary code.
The setting to use Fostex format instead of standard MTC is still in Logic today.
And I’m still using Logic today. Almost every song I’ve ever made has been done in Logic.
Still have my humble Tascam 4 track and my Roland VS880 which I converted the hard drive to an SD card for easy file conversion.
I used to have a four-track tape cassette recorder where I could record up to 4 tracks on a standard cassette. I think it was a Tascam 4 track, same as @audiomike 's. That's how I recorded my first albums from MTV Music Generator. Now, not saying the production quality was there. It wasn't. A lot of my vocal tracks were cringe rubbish. 😂 However, I was at my most creative back when I focused on the music rather than the production.
Limits are a great thing for spurring and fostering creativity. For instance, GR-II has its limitations. FLSM has its limitations. Now I'm getting stuck into Auxy and building an EP in that. While Auxy seems to be very unlimited, it has its limits. It seems lately that I prefer apps that lack the ability to load AUv3 plugins as otherwise I get choked up with "options paralysis".
For instance, Cubasis 3 will freeze me up sometimes for creative purposes. It works perfect as a place to master an EP, record and process vocals, layer vocals on top of a finished unmastered track, etc. But, it offers too much freedom at times. (However, Cubasis 3 is hard to top as a DAW. I believe CB3 and Logic Pro for iPad are headlocked as for first place.)
Korg Gadget is a deceptive app. Seems limited on the surface, but there's so much going underneath the hood that I could wind up with options paralysis with that thing. I love Gadget though and will sometimes still open it up to have a go with it.
Bottom line - I miss my 4-track Tascam and MTV Music Generator 2000. Shit sound quality, but lots of musical fun.
Yep, I also had the Roland VS1680! Loved it!
That one I really also regret selling! The sound was tight with the 2 onboard additional effects boards!
There's something about KORG Gadget that just makes music fun as heck.
Even using the Gadget's in other DAWs, they sound awesome, feel great to play and are just.. fun?
I honestly feel like I could get most of what I need done with just Gadget and some of the IAPs.
Combine it with something like Loopy Pro and I mean.. not an awful lot is lacking (mostly the tedious stuff like time aligning audio/comping and pitch correction).