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Control Loopy Pro with iRig Blueboard (IKMultimedia)
I'm starting to use Loopy Pro and I would like to control it, in a simple way - stop - play - overdub - with the irig blueboard, but I'm encountering many difficulties. For example, if I set the irig blueboard to "MIDI over Bluetooth mode 2" it is recognized by Loopy Pro but not by the Ikmultimedia app. By the way, is the IKmultimedia app necessary to configure the irig blueboard with Loopy Pro? Is there a step-by-step guide that teaches how to correctly set all the necessary parameters? I can't find a video on the internet where it is explained in a simple way how to configure everything? Thanks for your help !
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To use the BlueBoard directly with other apps and not through iK’s app, you need to use the non-proprietary modes.
There is no need to run iK’s app to use a Blueboard with loopy.
What set up are you having trouble with in Loopy?
Since, there is no one right set of mappings…and the mappings depend on the layout you are using, it is hard to know what to advise.
Can you be more specific about what you are having trouble with?
Do you know about Loopy’s MIDI Learn?
Let's say I have 3 tracks (loops) (drum - guitar - bass) and I would like the A button on the iRig Blueboard to be able to manage three functions: record - play - overdub for the drums. The same thing for the B and C keys for guitar and bass respectively. The D button starts and stops for all tracks and I managed to do this morning with Midi Learn. What I can't do (and I don't know if it's possible!!) is setting record -play-overdub on a single button on the iRig Blueboard.... Thanks for the help
First, one bit of advice, it is often useful to set up a widget that performs the actions that you want to trigger so that you can tap the widget without needing the midi control.
To do what you want, use the record action. If you set it to toggle, the first tap will start recording. The second fill finish recording and start playing back. The next tap will start overdubbing and the next tap will end the overdub.
Once the button does what you want, use MIDI Learn to trigger the widget from your Blueboard.
I use a different approach. Rather than have buttons dedicated to specific clips, I use buttons to select the clip that I'm focused on and then use other buttons to do things to that clip. This helps me focus and lets me use as many clips as I want.
The BlueBoard is set up to BlueBoard Mode 2 (Notes) by powering up while holding down button C. It can be used just as well in Mode 1 with the appropriate CC mappings.
i concur.
i'm still figuring out LP but i realized the same already. for a physical control to do a few things, better to have a screen widget with the number of actions on it, and just the one midimap to set up the connection between that one widget with all the logic on it, and the one physical thing.
Thanks everyone for the advice! @espiegel123 From the videos I've seen it seems to me that the majority of users use Widgets. I followed your instructions and I managed to do something. I have a lot to learn!!
There’s a patchstorage page for Loopy Pro and someone should upload a working BlueBoard project file with instructions similar to what @Wim shared here.
I started to do that but didn’t finish making one yet. still even a simple one has to help and I’ve seen people selling complex setups.
Live looping is a deep workflow.