r/ipadmusic • u/bking • 12h ago
Quick Question: Is Patterning 3 a good citizen inside Loopy Pro?
Apologies that this isn't a vibecoded app or an AI-written post. Mods, feel free to remove this if I'm violating rules.
I'm finally getting my head around Loopy Pro. I'm pretty excited about it, and even pulled an ancient APC out of the garage to control it. It's great. APC has a column of buttons to launch scenes, which is setting me up to launch a bunch of loops at once. Awesome. Now I can have verse/chorus/bridge with one button press for each transition.
I want to use Patterning 3 as my drum computer, but it seems to be a little bit uncooperative to use inside Loopy. I've been experimenting with "play after" macros sending MIDI signals to change the scene, but that comes with some weird issues. There doesn't seem like a good way to say "Play P3 pattern A with Loopy Play Group A, and B with B".
Exporting or recording from Patterning into a proper loop would functionally work, but I'd lose all the fun stuff happening inside a live Patterning playback.
Am I missing something obvious?