Drum pads

Loopylicious has a built-in drum sampler so you can lay down a beat without reaching for anything else.

The pad grid

Open the pad panel to get a 4 by 4 grid of 16 pads, labelled A1 to A4 along the top row, then B1 to B4, C1 to C4 and D1 to D4 (the usual finger-drum layout). Tap a pad to play its sound. Pads light up as they are hit, and where your device supports it, how hard you press sets the velocity.

You can play the pads:

• by touch or mouse,
• with the keyboard: Q W E R for pads 1 to 4, A S D F for pads 5 to 8, and Z X C V for pads 9 to 12,
• or from MIDI hardware via MIDI-learn.

Kits

Loopylicious ships with a few starter kits, including Hard Trap, Bounce and Soulful Vintage. Use the < and > arrows above the grid to switch between them; the kit name shows in between. There are also buttons to flip the grid's split between vertical and horizontal to suit your screen.

Switching kits only changes what new hits sound like. Anything you have already recorded keeps the sound it was played with, because the drum audio is baked into the loop.

Pads land in your loop

When a track is recording or overdubbing, the pads you hit are captured into that track, both as audio and as MIDI (on the standard drum channel). So a beat you tap out becomes part of the loop, and the MIDI comes out in the exported files for tweaking later.

Importing your own samples and kits is on the roadmap.