Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.
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Yeah the app definitely isn’t for everyone...but it’s great that everyone can use it if they’re into the type of workflow it offers. I just find it a lot easier to use than apps like GrooveRider and BeatHawk and so far it’s been inspiring to use.
Hopefully it evolves like Gadget has...cause i personally think they have a winner on their hands. Will definitely keep hammering and noodling on it. New doors of perception are opening for me and i love it when apps inspire me to create...
Very nice @echoopera ! 👍
Because of your tracks i bought EW yesterday but I’m not interested in EDM at all.
The app looks nice and I can imagine using it in your way. The factory patterns are not mine because of the music styles. I don’t like them at all!
I have some difficulty to find sounds like them you are using. Do you build them from scratch or may I miss some presets? What about the sounddesign in your workflow? Did you spend much time for it and is it difficult to get them? I’m not the perfect Sounddesigner from scratch. Mostly I look for a good preset to tweak them.
Im afraid that the sounddesign can may the biggest problem for me to use EW in a fun way.
Glad you’re enjoying the tracks. Honestly I’m just loading the existing factory sequences and auditioning their sounds and tweaking them to my liking. I’m a Preset and Tweak kind of guy myself.
Just load up the factory sequences and test out the various patches on each synth and when you find one you kind of like, tap PROGRAM and Save As to your user library. I have about 8 i wrangled from the factory sequences in this manner.
Once you save them you can tweak to your liking and Save again via the Program button.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need a video overview of this process and I’ll post one.
yeah. Good thing it’s on Sale for a couple more weeks. Maybe you’ll find a $20 note in that heavy sweater in the back of your coat closet and it’ll be a sign to get the app.
Hopefully they’ll incorporate more Gadget synth sounds into it as well. No reason not to.
For me, a few cows and things would be cool.
I can’t see this evolving like Gadget - I reckon this is one of their iDS-10/iKaossilator/iElectribe type offerings, a ‘this is what you get, thanks’, ‘work within the limitations’ thing.
So on that basis I’ll have to stay on the fence until a vid or forum fever levers me off it.
I might have that on my tombstone.
Bought it.....couldn't resist.
Played with it it for a couple of hours.
Don't like this as much as I do love Gadget. Drum sounds are limited and I don't like the interface that much. I can't seem to find some basic things.....for example changing tempo is hidden in a sub menu ????? wtf???
I do like the wavetable engine and got some great sounds out of it. It does sound very EDM to me.
It does feel too limited to me.
I give it some more time, but I don't think it will grow on me.....too bad you can't flip apps.
Bought it, thanks to you bastards
So far, like it a lot. Much more versatile than it seems.
The motion sequencer goes deep here and interface in general seem really playable. Ableton export is hopefully incoming and a native mode for Korg hardware like the iElectribe has would be much appreciated. Can only imagine how much this would cost to put out as an actual hardware box! Next disposal money that crosses my path is reserved for this and Pattering 2...
I haven't used Gadget for a very long time now.....I find EWave much more instant and I feel much closer of what I'm doing, with Gadget it sometimes kinda felt like I was doing what Gadget wanted me to, if that makes sense. I think it's about the perspective, with Gadget you start with a mixer, with EWave you start with an instrument.
What I would REALLY like to be able to do, is use Gadgets within EWave, build a track in there, record a performance of that track using mutes, automation, live tweaking and pattern switching, and then export it to Gadget for tidying up/finishing off.
Love the tracks you’ve made, very close to what I’d want to do with it - gentle, synth, krautrocky type stuff.
How did you do the key changes in the last track, is that programmed in the sequencer, or triggered via the keyboard?
I can see this app has a lot of limitations, but looks like it’ll still find a place in my workflow.
Another nice track
I agree with what @AndyPlankton says about feeling closer to Wave than Gadget when wanting to make music
It reminds me not so much of Gadget but of ikaossilator. It’s this crazy closed system that everyone who uses it LOVES. And yet I listen to the stock sounds in ikaossilator and cannot imagine a world where these sounds would be useful to me, as fun as it must be. EW is clearly different. But...
When you add patterns to a song you can specify a transpose value, so you can have a single pattern and play it back at any root note
You can also have a song use the tempo in the patterns instead of having a global tempo for the track which is a nice feature.
EDIT: took a screenshot of the song screen, you can see that you can add the same pattern with different Mutes, and Transpose, it also shows the tempo mode (song or pattern)
The song list on the right gives a visual representation of which patterns and which mutes are used, which is great for giving a guide when practicing to do the same thing live.
Ah right, that’s cool - thanks for the info Andy.
P.s liked your track!
Yup. My guess is that your one off guess is about right. The only thing is I can see them (because it's such an obvious business model) throwing packs out. But, as mentioned elsewhere, it's Korg. Who knows. I feel like 'scheduling a call' for a month or two so you can ask me: When was the last time you opened it? Interested to know my answer
Very true that it works mostly like an electribe. Definitely electribe-based, but it is like he took both versions that a lot of people had wanted (since electribes started coming out in red sampler and blue synth) and combined them. AND then moved on to start pulling in things from the Elekton boxes!!
But I am all but sure that I will buy the new electribe. I have had one since the MX series and is still one of my favorite pieces of gear. I just want GR-16 in a hardware box.
Yup I agree with the workflow part, and that is why I was comparing it to the Elektron boxes. They are famous for being difficult to get your head around, but they can do amazing things if you put in the time.
But sometimes you just don't have time and want to pick something up and just use it without much time investment. I get that with some synths, wanting to just get a quick sound to work with. I just love grooveboxes so I don't fear the investment.
Everyone has their own workflow and that is often the most important factor.
My guess is that I’d have a load of fun with it for a few weeks, make a couple of tracks with it then put it back in the box.
If it is a one-off they’re missing a trick. The workflow looks like loads of fun, adding sample import and a bit of mangling would make this a proper thing. With sample import it’d stay out of the box.
A video on the process would be amazing. If you post it count me in. Thank you
I completely agree. And now we wait....
Yeah. I've decided to pass on this. Unless it evolves in the future to something other than IAPs for sounds. Truth be told I have BM3 and my frustration over 1) not understanding it fully (mostly my fault) and 2) waiting for BM3 to be updated, had me really on-the-fence about EWave. But, just yesterday I spent 1.99 on NanoStudio and the workflow just got me very stoked. I was up and "writing" in about 2 minutes or less.
I need to just do the work and stop buying apps. I have too much in front of me for more spending on apps that won't satisfy simply because I don't put in the work.
Love what you all are doing with it though!
@MonzoPro @AndyPlankton thanks for giving it a listen. As far as how i am transitioning, I’m just saving out different Patterns and loading them in Song mode. I use the sequencer a lot but also play Live atop the sequences to add a little variety and save those out as new Patterns.
One thing i find kind of cool is to load K.E.W in AUM and hit Record while i play from the Pattern Browser Live instead of a stitched up Song mode...it’s kind of like playing from Abletons Clip mode.
If I were the kind of person who would insert a handclap emoji between every word for emphasis, I would do that here.
I'm going to pretend that Xequence is my new purchase and dive into that.