Ever wanted a recording studio in the palm of your hand? Looptical is a complete music production solution for iPad and iPhone. Record your musical ideas on the go and mix them into a finished track, or use them as the basis for a new project back at your studio. Create looped sections of music and combine them to form larger musical sections until you have a finished song. Going from an initial riff idea to full track is easy with Looptical. Then mix the track with comprehensive effects and fully automated mixer controls, or export the MIDI and component audio tracks to your DAW when back at the studio to take your song one step further. PLAY INSTRUMENTS - Play keys with a single or dual 128 key keyboard layout, complete with pitch/mod wheel. - Use the Scale Keyboard to play scales effortlessly by sliding a finger up and down the screen. - Strum your way through your own palette of chords with the Chord Guitar. - Use the Latched Arpeggiator to turn simple chords into sequences of notes. - Use Quantize to tidy up your performance, and Undo any mistakes. GO FROM RIFF TO FULL SONG - Songwriting in Looptical involves creating Loops: building blocks for a song that could be a one bar bassline, an 8 bar chorus, or a 100 bar indulgent guitar solo. - Use the Loop Bank to combine, merge, repeat, and insert these Loops to form larger riffs, and ultimately a complete song. - Use the Event List to perform mass edits of notes, such as tweaking velocity, quantize or transpose. MIX THE TRACK - Add and mix up to 24 stereo tracks with Looptical's Mixer. - Add up to 5 Insert effects (Overdrive, Bit Crusher, Compressor, EQ, Filter, Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Trance Gate, Delay) to each track, and a single Reverb Send effect. - All mixer and effect parameters are automated and changes are recorded directly into the song. ADD VOCALS AND GUITARS - Record vocals with the iPad internal microphone or compatible audio interface and add your own effects with live monitoring. - Control input with an intuitive preamp-style gain and noise gate. INTERACT WITH OTHER APPS - Record audio tracks directly from any Inter-App Audio (iOS7) Instrument app. - Use Audiobus (requires purchase from third party) to send and receive live audio to other Audiobus-enabled apps. MAKE YOUR OWN INSTRUMENTS - If the 95 keyboard and 50 drum presets (including 600 individual drum hits) are not enough, create your own from scratch. - Import samples via iTunes Shared Folder, from another iPad music app via the clipboard, or resample the current song. - Effortlessly create an entire new instrument from a single sample, or add further samples for a multi-sampled instrument. - Edit your sample to trim, chop, loop, amplify, fade or reverse sections. - Export your instrument to use again, or even share with others via the Looptical forum. USE AN EXTERNAL KEYBOARD - Plug in an iPad-compatible MIDI keyboard and you can break out of the iPad screen and compose using a full hardware piano keyboard. - Play drum parts by assigning piano keys to each pad, or effortlessly noodle a solo by playing the Scale Piano from the major keys. - Assign spare MIDI controllers such as Pan or Modulation to directly control automation parameters in Looptical insert effects. BEFORE YOU PURCHASE - Visit looptical.com and listen to some of the amazing demo tracks created with Looptical. - Watch video tutorials on using Looptical. - Download the full instruction manual to read at your leisure. - Discuss Looptical with other users in our forum and see what they've been doing with the app.
Needs an update
At one time my absolute favorite app, I produced a couple of albums using this and loved the quick, inspiring workflow. It really does not function properly under iOS 14 though, and appears abandoned. I’m sad.
Alot for $4.99
You usually don't expect a lot in a music making app for $4.99 But this takes things to a whole new level of awesomeness💯
My personal favorite iOS multitracker app
For me, this app brings the best combination of recording simplicity and professional-sounding results. It has a 24-track mixer and an onboard group of virtual instruments you can layer and/or loop to your heart's content but also combine with your own guitar playing using your interface, again with great sound quality. Works great with Audiobus and does not require upgrading your device to iOS 9 👍 if you're one of those iOS 7 die-hards like I am. For some reason I don't understand, this app doesn't seem to get as much discussion as the more complex gizmo apps abundantly available but Looptical is my go-to app for laying down tracks and building a demo - you should really check it out!
Great app...
If it had assignable midi channels per track, that feature would, for me, make it a 5 star app... The ability to auto-slice and assign samples would also be extremely useful!
I don't like it
This seemed really cool at first, but the creation process is a chore for me. I like step sequencers, and you have to do this on the fly..on a phone! Not cool. Deleted.
So MANY Features, ONE Fatal Flaw
It claims Audiobus compatibility, but does not work with it, ever, at least on iPad. It should be noted that Audiobus is also a wonderful, deeply flawed app...meaning I use it every day, until it crashes, which it does every single time. I need Looptical to work with Audiobus. It doesn't. But it delivers more satisfaction than any other single music app I know. So for now, 4 stars from me.
It has a particular strength.
Clearly you can make most types of music on this but I really think it shines as an instrument for trance music. I made a few trance songs with it each within 30 minutes. The generous inserts per track (including a great trance gate arppegiator) really makes this a steal for the price. The drums are great and though the choices for instruments is a bit limited you can tweak them greatly and come up with something unique.
Fixed various issues when running under iOS11.
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