I’ve had an issue with Looptastic dropping tracks, messing up audio as it’s being ramped up in volume, and assigning fx to tracks which were not originally supposed to have fx.

Here’s what happens (you may be able to re-create the issue if you follow these steps): 

1.) Create a new loop set.  Import your loops.  Name them, tell the program which loop is a lead instrument, lead vocal, etc. 

2.) you do multiple mix sessions.  You finally come up with something you like using your loop set. 

3.) You mix the version you plan on sharing.  You save it.  You upload it to SoundCloud, or export some other way.

4.) You play your mix back.  Doh!  An instrument you had slowly ramped up in the mix session pops on and off as it gets louder and louder.  The popping is distracting “Why didn’t it sound like that as i was mixing it??” You’ll ask yourself.

5.) Ok, you can get over the popping loops.  You continue listening. 

6.) Something is wrong.  Your piano loop has played through 8 bars at least but the lead vocals you mixed aren’t coming in like they should.  What happened??  You decide to re-export.  Maybe something went wrong while Looptastic was mixing your track…

7.) Another several minutes down the drain.  You say a prayer (or meditate briefly) and play your new track back again. 

8.) Same issue with the volume.  Same issue with the vocals.  Dropping tracks may be rare but it has been an issue in my case.

9.) You spend another half hour mixing the session again thinking maybe if you start all over, it will work.

10.) It doesn’t.  You restart.  Same thing.  You un-install, then re-install Looptastic.  Same problem.  You upgrade your OS.  Same problem.  Maybe it’s the memory—you backup all your photos and videos and free up 20 gigs.  Same problem.

This has been a major stumbling block for me, but as you’ll see below the developers are on the case.  I am keeping this thread open as it may become useful to people experiencing similar issues.

HI,

We are sorry that your email to support must have not been responded to. I have looked through all the email and cannot find it.

I will look into your mixdown problem and have sent you an email via the forum to sort this out.

Some questions are:

- how many loops were used?
- were they all yours, or a mix with factory and/or loop store loops
- it looks like you used SetMaker to make your loops, What file format did you drag in?
- what was the tempo and total length of the file do you think?

Thanks again and we will get things working for you.

—kT

Hey Kord,

Thanks for your response on this.  I’ll try to answer your questions to the best of my abilities. 

Q:
- how many loops were used?
- were they all yours, or a mix with factory and/or loop store loops

A:
7 loops were imported from my own vocal or instrument performances in other iPad music software (Thumbjam, TwistedWave, Hokusai, and Multi-Track)  4 loops were used from the Looptastic library.  11 loops in total.  I have not noticed any issues with the Looptastic loops, only the imported ones.

Q:
- it looks like you used SetMaker to make your loops, What file format did you drag in?

A:
Importing loops was done using the Audio Paste feature under “more” on the main Looptastic menu.  I paste the loops into a new or already created loop set.

Q:
- what was the tempo and total length of the file do you think?

A:
The tempo is set to 120.0 bpm, the total length of the song is 6:30.

The song I’m getting these stats from is the song where I had the dropped track.  It is also the song where I am using the most overlapped vocals.  I have had issues with all of my performances when ramping in instrument and vocal loops.  Looptastic seems to compress them somehow or break them up as I adjust their volume.  For example as a guitar slowly ramps to full volume, the sound pops on and off until I stop moving the volume slider.  Then it sounds fine.  Also note this does not happen when interactively mixing the song.  Only when playing back a saved session.

Thanks. I will iterate with you in email on this.

We will get it straightened out.

- kT

Any update on this issue?

Hi,

I will send direct mail too, but I have tried mixing/matching loops via ACP (and purchased some ofthe apps you mention). And uploading to SoundCloud and things are working right.

Maybe it is about the length of the individual lips you pasted in.

Thanks,
- kT

Hi,

Just to further confirm that I did more tests and the mixes were okay.

Maybe it’s a memory issue? Are you still having the problem?

And BTW, I noticed it was pretty hard in those audio recording apps to have a sense of bars/beats. I had to have a metronome click going.

Again I will respond via email on this stuff again as well.

If anyone else is having mix down issues please let us know.

Just want to be clear that we take this stuff to heart and keep evaluating it.

Thanks,

—kT

Hi kord,

I have the same issue reported above….

Just realize that listening my set in soundclod i have some missing parts in my sound and than i realize that these parts was the .wav imported from other apps.

Can u help me?

These make me nuts too cause ive been counting on audio copy paste function in loophd.

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