Getting started

Install Loopylicious, find your way around, and record your first loop in under a minute.

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Loopylicious is a live looper, not a DAW. The whole idea is that you can start looping in seconds and tidy things up later, in the app or in your favourite DAW. This page gets you from a fresh install to your first loop.

Install and try it

Loopylicious runs standalone on Windows, Android and Linux today, with macOS, iOS and a VST plugin on the way. Grab it from the download page.

Everything is unlocked and unrestricted for 14 days, no card and no account. After the trial it keeps working, it just starts asking you (nicely) to buy a licence. One purchase unlocks Loopylicious on every platform it runs on. See the FAQ for how the Universal Licence works.

The layout

When you open Loopylicious you get a grid of track cards and, when you pop it open, a drum pad panel. Each track card is one loop: it shows the track's state (EMPTY, ARMED, RECORDING, OVERDUBBING, PLAYING or STOPPED), a record level and a playback level meter, and its own controls.

Across the top you have the transport (Play all / Stop all), a settings cog, and buttons for grid density and fullscreen.

Record your first loop

  1. Pick a track card and tap its ring (or press a number key, 1 for track 1).
  2. The track arms. By default Loopylicious waits for sound: start playing or singing and recording begins on the first note it hears.
  3. Tap the ring again to close the loop. It snaps to a sensible bar boundary, and from then on every other track lines up to it.
  4. The loop starts playing straight away. Tap the ring once more to start overdubbing another layer on top.

First time on a new device, run the latency calibration so your loops record perfectly in time. See Audio and latency.

Where to go next