"Beat Buddy" on the iPad

[Rajiv]

Hello -- it's been a long time since I've posted here. Actually, I went on a music hiatus (picked up triathlon instead as my main hobby -- that's a weird transition), but am back to it. I've been playing a lot with looper pedals. I was hopeful somebody here could answer a "how can I do that with my iPad?" question.

I've been looking at the Beat Buddy pedal -- looks like a fun toy. It allows you to control drum loops using a footswitch. It's a clever design. You can click the pedal once to trigger a fill, and then the pedal will automatically return to the normal drum pattern. It supports intros, outros, transitions, and multiple patterns, all with a single footswtich. It's also $300.

I used to do stuff like that using the session view of Ableton Live (with a mouse, not a footswitch). I'd put a series of loops vertically, and program some of them to repeat, and some to return after finishing to a different loop. So I could click a fill pattern, and it would automatically return to the main pattern when it finished.

I don't have access to Ableton anymore, but I do have an iPad. I know there are apps (PerfectDrummer looks promising) that allow you to program a song using drum loops. And then there's Novation Launchpad and Electrify NXT which control loops, but as far as I can tell, always need to be triggered manually to switch loops.

Is there a way to do this sort of thing on the iPad and control it with a footswitch? I will use it primarily with acoustic drum loops (which I have in plentiful supply).

Thanks for your help!

Rajiv

[gjvti]

You can check loopy - https://loopyapp.com/features - it is audio only looper though

[Rajiv]

Thanks for the reply... I have Loopy. Will have to investigate how to control it with a pedal.

I appreciate your response.