Super-easy MIDI Recording

  • LoopBud is a simple yet powerful MIDI recorder and looper.

  • Record MIDI quickly for capturing melody ideas or live jamming sessions.

  • Designed with 4-bar loops in mind, but supports unlimited bar lengths.

  • Create unlimited patterns and change them using MIDI CC messages!

Super-easy MIDI Recording
Two easy record modes

Two easy record modes

  • Features two recording modes: Add mode and New mode.

  • Add mode appends new notes to each new loop cycle.

  • New mode clears previous cycles and starts fresh recording.

  • Always available undo button lets you correct mistakes easily.

Loop and Live Perform

  • Multiple options for enhancing your recordings.

  • Toggle quantization on/off while recording.

  • Set quantization level from the settings menu.

  • Change clock speed to make recordings play faster or slower.

  • Focus on a single bar by pressing the bar measure—it will loop only that bar.

Loop and Live Perform
Handy Settings & MIDI Export

Handy Settings & MIDI Export

  • Set highest/lowest notes of the piano roll for better visualization.

  • Configure note order of the piano roll display.

  • Long-press patterns and bars for copy/paste/delete options.

  • Copy/paste patterns between different LoopBud AUv3 instances.

  • Export MIDI pattern by pattern or merge all patterns into a single MIDI file.

Take Advantage of AUv3

  • LoopBud includes an Audio Unit plugin for use in your favorite AUv3 host apps.

  • Compatible with AUM, Cubase, BeatMaker, apeMatrix, NanoStudio, and more.

  • Create custom presets and save your current state to your host app.

  • Load saved states anytime for consistent recording sessions.

Take Advantage of AUv3
Download on App Store

Download for iOS or Apple Silicon

Open Source

LoopBud offers its core components on Github.
They are all shared libraries for iOS, macOS and tvOS platforms, written in Swift.

Music Theory

Music Theory

A music theory library with Note, Interval, Scale and Chord representations in Swift enums.

MIDIEventKit

MIDIEventKit

Send and receive MIDI in human language with Swift enums.

MIDIPianoRoll

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Customizable and editable MIDI Piano Roll.

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