Developer A Tasty Pixel has released Loopy HD (App Store link) – an advanced audio looping application for iOS.
If you’re not familiar with Loopy for iOS, it’s one sick looper. Loopy HD goes further, though, doubling the number of loops that you can layer.
At $3.99, Loopy HD is a no-brainer purchase for any iOS user interested in looping. That said, where’s the MIDI?
Demo and details below.
If you’ve used Loopy HD, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMFZXvCsZQ
Here’s a demo video for Loopy HD. While it’s an official video, it’s not that great of a demo, with distorted audio. If you do a user demo that’s better, leave the URL in a comment!
Features:
- Record & Layer
- Six, nine, or twelve beautifully rendered circular loops, with simple yet powerful controls.
- Count-in, count-out and record chaining lets you keep your hands free to play an instrument.
- Overdub, to build beautiful, complex soundscapes from many layers.
- Support for tracks of any multiple or fraction of a beat, for flexible and expressive looping.
- Sophisticated audio or visual metronome to keep you in time – no matter what time signature you choose.
- Perfectly synchronized, low latency audio engine.
- Import & Construct
- Import loops from your computer via iTunes, with support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, M4A, CAF and more.
- Bring in audio from many other audio apps with integrated MAPI AudioPaste, with support for Intua general pasteboard format.
- Imported loops are automatically fit to your beat, no matter what tempo.
- Manipulate & Tweak
- Full stereo audio, with pan controls for each track to create custom stereoscapes.
- Fix up timing by twisting tracks around to line up the beat, or make funky sound effects with dynamic time shifting.
- Drag a track onto another track to merge tracks, and clear up a space.
- Live, dynamic tempo adjustment to speed up or slow down your creations, without altering the pitch.
- Perform & Share
- Record whole performances with in-app session recording facilities.
- Upload performances or single loops straight to SoundCloud, and post to Twitter or Facebook.
- Email audio clips (with automatic conversion to compressed AAC audio).
- Share audio with many other audio apps with MAPI AudioCopy.
- Transfer loops or performances to your computer via iTunes.
Where’s the MIDI: On it’s way, I promise! I wanted to get that bad boy out the door first, but MIDI’s the next thing on my agenda – expect it within a few weeks.
+1 for MIDI support!
Oh need an EQ sooo bad…its like slippery MUDD..and yes I know..Its $ 4…yet…useless professionally unless outputs can be router to EQ…
Otherwise its COOL 🙂
Congrats Tasty Pixel people. This is a great app – precisely the kind of toy/to/tool attitude i want in an iOS app. Does it support core audio stuff for inputs via USB? Is it possible to switch inputs on the fly? For instance, if i’m using an adaptor to play guitar directly in, can i switch to the built in mic for the next loop?
I’m excited to see how this evolves. Keeping the genius simplicity in tact of while adding what are, I’m sure, emphatic feature requests will be hard, but very cool, work.
Thanks, Joshua! You know, I haven’t done any testing with USB devices yet – so I’m not sure! I do know that there’s a bunch of stuff that works out-of-the-box with the audio engine, though, so it may. If it does work, then you can indeed switch on the fly – although you’d need to unplug to switch to the internal mic!
Loopy2 is my favorite iOS looper and I have quite a few. I’m excited about this.