My cousin Craig asked about Loopy, the software I used for this track. Loopy is an easy to use loop recording app for iOS with an impressive demo video with Dub FX. Loopy was quick to pick up and fun to use. Layering loops was really easy, but I'll need practice before I can structure the loops into a real song.
The other software I used was:
- Audiobus — audio routing between apps
- Impaktor — crazy drum synthesizer
- SoundPrism — synth and interesting MIDI controller
- Animoog — fucking amazing synth
- Figure — think ReBirth lite
- BassLine — 303 in your pocket
Some of these have separate iPhone and iPad versions. Most of them aren't Audiobus-friendly yet but I was able to get away with audio copy/paste most of the time. I tried to use NodeBeat too, but the Audiobus-friendly version isn't out yet and the current version was misbehaving.
Ironically, I cant actually remember whether audio from SoundPrism—the sole Audiobus-aware app—made it into the final product even though Audiobus inspired the whole thing.