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How good is Loopy Pro for looping guitar and MIDI Guitar controlled instruments?

FizzyLizzy27FizzyLizzy27
in Loopy Pro

I'm digging into playing live guitar on iPad and want to get a good looping setup going.

So how good is Loopy for live instrumentation? | know this is a broad topic to tackle so here's key things I want to accomplish:

• loop live guitar with fx from external gear (wah, distortion, etc.). Press a button (eg MIDI foot switch) or auto record when playing starts, stop the recording, playback the loop, and play or record into a new loop (probably by pressing a midi trigger or some sort of logic to dictate which donut to record into next)

• MIDI Guitar to control one shot samples using something like OneShot (who'da thunk?), Beathawk, Koala, etc. I’d like to do something like assign a kick to the low E string, snare to the A string, etc. to do “finger drumming” into a donut

• MIDI Guitar to control MPE instruments like GeoShred, TAL-U-NO-LX

• Make custom templates for MIDI controllers (I’m using a Launchkey 49 Mk 3 but should be controller agnostic)

There’s definitely an art to looping, and I only got decent with a hardware looper pedal so the less friction in the setup early on the better.

Comments

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @FizzyLizzy27 : there are quite a few gigging performers that use it for that. Not too many active here on the LP forum, quite a lot on the Facebook forum. I hate to direct people to that platform but that seems to be where gigging performers congregate.

  • wimwim
    edited January 6

    I don't see anything in your post that Loopy Pro can't handle with ease. I can't think of anything else on the platform that could. So that kind of makes the "how good" part of the question less critical. Basically it's the only game in town for all that without cobbling together some monstrosity of separate apps.

    They're long, but the Artist Spotlights videos on Michael's channel are awesome for giving a feel for what can be done. No guitar slingers though, unfortunately.

    When you say "MIDI Guitar" do you mean an actual MIDI Guitar, or the MIDI Guitar 2 app? To do MPE, of course, either solution would need to be MPE compatible.

  • FizzyLizzy27FizzyLizzy27

    @espiegel123 I’ll take a look over on the FB group and see what I can figure out over there.

    @wim I kind of knew the answer was “it’s great” coming in. Maybe I kind of click baited there 😉 I’ve messed with Loopy enough to know its strengths, so if anything I’m using this post for some advice and as a resource/posting progression. The closest I can think that gets me close and isn’t too much of a mess would be AUM with SimpLoop, Surface builder. In fact I’ve kind of stumbled into a setup pretty similar to this playing around with routing in AUM a couple times. I figure though Loopy Pro is built around what I want to do.

    I’m specifically referring to MIDI Guitar 2. I’m actually using the beta for MIDI Guitar 3 which has MPE. I’ve set it up really nicely for MPE instruments, though I do either need some direction or to sit down and think through how I want to activate one shots. Especially if I only want to activate them once to get a beat going and then turn off sends to that channel.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @FizzyLizzy27 said:
    @espiegel123 I’ll take a look over on the FB group and see what I can figure out over there.

    @wim I kind of knew the answer was “it’s great” coming in. Maybe I kind of click baited there 😉 I’ve messed with Loopy enough to know its strengths, so if anything I’m using this post for some advice and as a resource/posting progression. The closest I can think that gets me close and isn’t too much of a mess would be AUM with SimpLoop, Surface builder. In fact I’ve kind of stumbled into a setup pretty similar to this playing around with routing in AUM a couple times. I figure though Loopy Pro is built around what I want to do.

    I’m specifically referring to MIDI Guitar 2. I’m actually using the beta for MIDI Guitar 3 which has MPE. I’ve set it up really nicely for MPE instruments, though I do either need some direction or to sit down and think through how I want to activate one shots. Especially if I only want to activate them once to get a beat going and then turn off sends to that channel.

    FWIW, if you need some help getting started there are some templates that have been set up for basic guitar-based workflow.

    In Sample Projects, the Verse/Chorus Looper is similar to the popular VoiceLive 3 looper. There is an improved version on my workbench (simpler pedal setup).

    There are one or two others in Sample Projects that are basic guitar loopers.

    On my workbench page there is an RC-30 style project. (I personally don't get the attraction of the RC-30 workflow but if one has used an RC-30, it is an option).

    There are a number of others on the patchstorage site. Including the SL4 template that some like.

    Max Yar and Loop With Jack have some guitar-based Loopy Pro tutorial series that might be of interest.

    https://wiki.loopypro.com/Tutorials

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