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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  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Dominion_Harmonics said:
    @Gavinski Thank you for listening and the unmerited high praise. And thank you for all of your hard work creating your channel. I'm sure it's frustrating and garners little in comparison to the time and energy it takes to produce your videos but I always look for your demos first when researching various apps. You do an excellent job of balancing information, understanding of the app, and musicality when explaining things. It's a lot easier to sit through a demo that includes an interesting musical setup than it is when the demonstrator just goes plink ploink on a synth. Those are fine too but I find your demos more engaging because you take the time to offer something better in that regard.

    Overall, I start by getting the initial idea into a musical form as close to the conception of it as possible inside AUM. I spend time recording stream of consciousness ideas and react to what is going on. As I told @dakti, I record entire sessions, maybe 10-20 minutes in AUM then go back and extract sections I think work and create another session and start with that, building up the piece running things through reverb/delay/granular send FX strips, sometimes multiple times. I tend to have a lot of fragments laying around from Gadget and other quick sketch apps that I'll use to initially capture ideas. Field recordings and misc samples get granulized and effected into something new. I'll put things in BlocsWave to see how they might fit together and for conforming things to scale and tempo. I use a lot of FAC Alteza/VelvetMachine/Silo and Dubstation 2/OuterSpace 2/Timeless3. I create stems in AUM until I have all the parts then I'll either mix in AUM or move to LP4iPad/Cubasis to finalize.

    The type of deep ambient production reflected on the piece called Subduction Zone, for example, came about from studying Vincent Villius' production approach. As you may know, he records under AES Dana and many will know his music. I'm a big fan of the Ultimae label and the artists affiliated with it. This type of music is essentially the opposite of popular EDM and other genres of electronic music, and I've realized the mindset must change in order to create it effectively.

    This type of Ambient music tends to be about density, harmonics, inversion, mood, texture & territory. Until recently, I typically made straight-forward EDM of one kind or another, so this complex type of production style was foreign to me. (I'm not good with specific genres. I tend to create then after the fact try to see where it fits in terms of category) I'm now pushing myself to learn about microtonal music (shoutout to @elemental for Etonal Studio) & concepts like intervalic structure, as these is at the core of the Ambient music I enjoy most.

    Verse-Chorus-Verse & I-IV-V-I patterns, modes and scales, aren't really used in common ways or all that much in this form. Working from fundamental frequencies, grounding in stasis with very slow modulations, structure not as narrative but as territory/space, all differentiate it from most other electronic music. This type of Ambient music, for me anyway, is about layers, gravity, granularity & slow harmonic movement. It's time in an environment where tension and resolution play a major role as opposed to a story with a linear beginning, middle, and end.

    I'm happy to provide more details elsewhere but for this space, I think this provides a long-winded but hopefully useful overview of the approach I am taking with an iPad. I used trial and error over the course of several weeks to complete Subduction Zone, which is a groping first attempt at a more dense form of Ambient music. Most of the other pieces on Soundcloud were just different ideas grounded in typical EDM production techniques that I'm most comfortable with i.e., industrial, dub, idm, funk, etc. I'm learning as I go and much of what I do needs polish but I enjoy the process despite the amateur nature of the results.

    Keep up the good work, Gav. Cheers!

    What a fascinating post, I'll have to give that a few reads, and thank you so much for your kind words 🙏

  • daktidakti
    edited April 12

    @Dominion_Harmonics: Thank you very much for such a comprehensive answer. I can really learn a lot from both the answers to me and @Gavinski. You not only mentioned the software, but also presented the entire philosophy of approaching to creating the music. You mentioned other musicians who inspire you, know that you also inspire others :)

    @Gavinski: I really agree with the Dominion_Harmonics and also want to express my appreciation for the hard work and great presentation of music apps for iOS 🙏🏽

  • daktidakti

    Hello, thanks for the entries :)

    @DMfan said:
    https://youtube.com/@flatlandcircuitry?si=e6o3srpZKZW6yDnz

    added to wiki

    @MJKLZ said:
    https://www.youtube.com/@merejackals

    added to wiki

  • DMfanDMfan

    @dakti said:
    Hello, thanks for the entries :)

    @DMfan said:
    https://youtube.com/@flatlandcircuitry?si=e6o3srpZKZW6yDnz

    added to wiki

    @MJKLZ said:
    https://www.youtube.com/@merejackals

    added to wiki

    🙏

    /DMfan🇸🇪

  • daktidakti
    edited April 12

    Thanks to @MJKLZ, "M" Team has reached 5 members, so... it's time for another poster :D Congratulations @McD, @MJKLZ, @Mountain_Hamlet, @MrSmileZ and @murky_fish :)

  • 1ktone1ktone
    edited April 12

    @dakti said:
    Thanks to @MJKLZ, "M" Team has reached 5 members, so... it's time for another poster :D Congratulations @McD, @MJKLZ, @Mountain_Hamlet, @MrSmileZ and @murky_fish :)

    Congrats to the team. 🎉 Just one question…can I be Neo?

  • daktidakti
    edited April 12

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    Congrats to the team. 🎉 Just one question…can I be Neo?

    Your nickname is in the middle, so definitely yes B)

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @dakti thank you! ❤️

  • waka_xwaka_x

    I did 2 soundscapes/granular improvs with the latest Crusher-X.
    Here they are:

    and

    enjoy!

  • Dominion_HarmonicsDominion_Harmonics

    Recorded in AUM. Quanta 2, Tera Pro, Battlestation, Splat-to-Clat, Mangled Verb, Dubstation 2, Kombinat4, Frostbite 2, FAC Alteza, & Descent.

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