Simple Looper Tutorial Projects

The Simple Looper Tutorial Projects is a set of Loopy Pro projects designed to teach some of Loopy Pro's basic operations. They are geared towards beginning loopers.

A few things that may be helpful to know before getting started.

Use headphones. While Loopy Pro has an Echo Cancellation feature which makes it possible to record loops without headphones, you will get the best results if you do use headphones. If your headphones have a mic, you may want to use the iPhone or iPad built-in mic instead. Show Loopy Pro's mixer and tap on the microphone icon at the top of the mixer's input channel. There will be a microphone selection widget that you can use to choose the preferred microphone.

Editing the canvas. Loopy Pro's layout or canvas can be edited to add or subtract elements by tapping at the pencil icon that appears at the bottom of the screen.

Redisplaying the help text. These projects make use of Loopy Pro's tutorial widgets. Some of the tutorial widgets in the projects are set to hide after you've read them in order to unclutter the screen. If you need to re-show them, tap the pencil icon at the bottom of the screen to get into canvas editing mode, tap on a tutorial widget icon and tap Re-Show – or turn off the hide automatically option.

The manual. There is valuable information about recording the first loop in the manual section Live Looping

Michael's recording tips. Michael Tyson (Loopy Pro's creator has posted a video with valuable tips for recording loops:

The projects in the series are described below. The project names may be slightly different.

This project has just two loops. Click to download.

This project has Auto Loop Detection on. Recording count-in and count-out are set to Master (cycle) and Auto Count Out is turned on.

Key features of this project and lesson:

• Recording the first loop sets the master cycle to the length of the first loop.
• Check the mixer to make sure the input volume is at a good level: louder than the background noise but not so loud that it clips (goes into the red).
• Auto Loop Detection. Tip: make sure that the volume of what you are recording is significantly louder than the background noise.
• Auto Count Out. Once the first loop has been recorded, tapping the other clip will count in so that recording starts when Loopy's clock is at the start (12 o'clock). As soon as recording starts, the count-out starts so that the loop will be an identical length as the first loop and be in sync with it.
• Merging loops. We drag a recorded loop onto another to merge them and clear up a loop for more recording.
• Changing the master cycle length. By changing the master cycle length, we change the length of the loops created when Auto Count Out is on.