Saving and export

Loopylicious is the start of a track, not the end of it. Your loops live in a single loop library, and everything you save is written out as plain files you can pick up anywhere.

The loop library

Saved loops all live in one library folder, shared by both the standalone app and the plugin. You never have to set it up: it just exists, in a private app-data folder. On desktop you can see where it is, open it, or copy its path from Settings > Loops. On mobile the library is private to the app, so loops move on and off the device as zips (see below) rather than through a file browser.

Each saved loop is a folder containing:

• one WAV file per track (the recorded loop audio),
• one MIDI file per track that captured any MIDI (your played notes and the drum hits), and
• a small metadata file describing the loop: sample rate, the tempo and bar count if you tagged it, and each track's settings.

If you tagged the tempo (see Tracks and mixing), the MIDI files carry the right tempo and time signature, so they drop into a DAW already in time.

The scratch loop (standalone)

When you open the standalone app you are always on a loop, ready to record. By default that is the scratch loop: a zero-friction workspace that autosaves as you go and comes straight back next time you open the app. You never have to save it and you are never nagged about it on quit.

When you want to keep a scratch loop properly, hit Save in the loop menu and give it a name (it suggests a timestamp you can just accept). That moves it into your library as a named loop, and from then on it behaves like a document: Save writes your changes back to it, Save as makes a fresh copy under a new name, and Rename changes its name.

Starting a New loop, or Opening another one, first offers to keep your current work, so a stray tap never loses a jam. And if the app ever closes unexpectedly with unsaved changes to a named loop, it offers to restore that work the next time you open the loop.

Moving a loop around

Any loop can be bundled into a single .zip with Share / Export to zip, which builds from whatever you have live right now (you do not have to save first). That zip is easy to back up, carry between devices, or hand to someone else, and Import brings one back into your library.

In the plugin

In the plugin the host owns your loop: it is saved and restored automatically with your DAW project, so there is no Save. The loop menu instead lets you Replace from library (drop a library loop into this instance), Export to library or Export to zip (park a copy of the current loop), and Import zip to library. See Using the plugin.

Into your DAW

Because everything is just WAV and MIDI, you can drag the files straight into any DAW to keep building. That is the whole "Loop now, DAW later" idea: capture the moment in Loopylicious, then finish wherever you like.

Pre-configured project files for popular DAWs, so a session opens with your tracks already laid out, are planned.