Loopy Pro: Getting Started with MIDI Learn

This article is a quick reference outlining getting up and running with MIDI Learn. You may want to read the manual's MIDI Learn section. For more depth, you may want to dig into the many tutorials found on YouTube. There are links to some popular series on the Loopy Pro: Tutorials page.

What can you control via MIDI? Pretty much everything you can touch on the screen can be MIDI Learned and you can manually set up series of actions to be triggered by MIDI.

The MIDI Learn system is a quick way to map a MIDI message from a controller to an on-screen layout element: clip, button, slider, etc.

To MIDI Learn a user interface element:

• Connect the MIDI device that you want to use to trigger things in Loopy Pro. If it is a Bluetooth MIDI device, choose Bluetooth Devices from the main menu to make sure that your device is connected.
• Choose MIDI Learn from the main menu
• Tap on a user interface element that you want to trigger or control with MIDI
• Touch the control on your MIDI device that you want to control/trigger the user interface element
• OPTIONAL: make adjustments to the learned event. The MIDI Learn panel has an upper region with options for the type of element you are controlling. The bottom part displays information about the message. Tapping on it provides some options related to interpretation of the incoming message such as whether to use On or Off as a trigger or Hold or Double-tap and more advanced options.
• OPTIONAL: refine or add to the binding in Loopy Pro's Control Settings. MIDI Learn creates a binding in Control Settings that can trigger a series of actions rather than just a single one.