# Layerz: Live Looper — Overdub with AUv3 instruments

> Overdub with AUv3 instruments (iPhone/iPad app by Elijah Lucian.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/layerz-live-looper/id6791702988 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Elijah Lucian](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881481954)
- Category: Music
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Layerz?

Layerz is a realtime layering looper. Record a loop, and it starts playing instantly. Stack take after take over it, drop punch-ins on the fly, and hear exactly what you record — what you monitor IS what lands on the tape.

Under the hood it runs monitoring, overdub, and playback on a single Core Audio render callback — no engine graph churn, no second tap thread — so laying down audio while you monitor never glitches.

REALTIME LAYERING
The first take sets the loop length and loops immediately. Keep layering onto it, or hold DROP to punch-record a buffer drop. Destructive-first, no undo by design.

RUN THE TAPE BACKWARDS
A tape-deck transport: play reverse, stop, play forward. Overdub while it runs backwards and that layer plays backwards when you flip forward again.

WHOLE PASS
Snap recording to the loop seam so a take is always a complete lap, instead of one that starts and ends mid-loop.

HOST YOUR AUDIO UNITS
Run your installed AUv3 effects and instruments — samplers, synths — right in the input chain, with their own plugin UIs. Play a hosted instrument from the built-in keyboard or from a MIDI controller, straight into the loop. Blend two effect racks on one fader that runs from full-wet A through dry to full-wet B.

SEE THE ROOM — VIDEO PASSTHROUGH
Put the live camera behind the controls and dial in how far the face fades over it. Then let the picture loop with the sound:

• BURN-IN — video records while the loop records, and every lap composites onto the last. Four blends: imprint, lighten, darken, difference.
• MOSAIC — each lap claims its own cell and the grid grows as you play, 4 panes to 9 to 16, spiralling outward from the middle.

Playback follows the audio play head, so picture and sound share one clock. Nothing is saved or sent — the video lives in memory and dies with CLEAR.

BUILT FOR THE HANDS
An XY pad for gain and pan, a stereo-balance waveform you can scrub, stereo in/out metering, and a welded, single-surface control face.

THE GEMS
ECHO, FILTER, CRUSH and REVERB on everything you hear. Tap a gem and play the wide FX 1 and FX 2 sliders either side of the pad.

LOOKS FOR FILMING YOUR SCREEN
STAGE puts you on camera in a brass frame with the keys on wood. PIXEL turns the whole set — and you — into eight-point pixels. A pen-and-ink look draws it all in brush marks on paper. Each look can stand you in a room drawn in its own style — a lamplit studio, a 90s adventure-game room, a room in brush ink. Tap LAYERZ to switch.

POLISH
One switch levels whatever comes in — voice, bass or drums — so every layer lands at the same loudness.

ICLOUD AND REMOTE
Your takes on every device signed into your iCloud. Every button and fader answers OSC — TouchOSC, Lemur, Max.

ALWAYS SAVED
Your project is saved on the fly and restored when you reopen the app — transport, modes and all. NEW starts a fresh one; a library holds them all.

SHARE ACROSS APPS
Send a loop as WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG, export it to Choppa, turn it into a wave video, or see loops from the other WaveLoop apps in the shared library rail.

iPhone and iPad. Headphones recommended: monitoring to the speaker will feed back.

## Is Layerz safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Layerz.

## Is Layerz legit?

Layerz: Live Looper appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Layerz is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-22

The gems, the looks — and your takes everywhere.

• THE GEMS: ECHO, FILTER, CRUSH and REVERB over the pad. Tap a gem and play the wide FX 1 and FX 2 sliders either side of it.
• Tap LAYERZ for the options: POLISH (the voice chain), the LOOK, and all of Settings.
• STAGE: a look for filming your screen — you on camera in a brass frame, the wave along its foot, the keys and orbs on wood.
• PIXEL: the stage in eight-point pixels, the camera cut into the same cells.
• A pen-and-ink look: the whole stage in brush marks on paper, and you printed in.
• THE ROOM: in each look you're cut out of the camera and stood in a room drawn in that look's style. Tap the picture for a new one.
• THE CHEST: your takes as rows of gems, right on the stage.
• ICLOUD: your takes on every device signed into your iCloud.
• SHARE AS WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG. M4A is the new default.
• REMOTE: every button and fader answers OSC and sends its values back.
• The library has a new look, with bigger waves.
• Fixed: a burst of MIDI from a controller could crash the app.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-26

A new look, and room to breathe.

• The new WaveLoop look: no outlines, new type, and panes that stay put while things land in them.
• VOCAL CHAIN in the FX pane: one switch levels your mic or cable, shuts out the room and adds air. The slider tunes it for bass, voice or drums.
• The waveform gets all the spare room, and CLEAR sits striped in the bottom-right corner. No undo, and now it looks it.
• Turn it sideways: the tape on the left, what you shape on the right. iPad gets the same side-by-side face.
• Swipe left from the right edge to open the library.
• + tells you where your last loop went; tap the tab to open the library.
• WAVE VIDEO plays your loop 1×, 2× or 4×.
• TRAINING in the title menu: little goals that tick themselves as you play.
• Fixed: the camera button shows what the camera is really doing.
• Fixed: with the microphone off, your loops still play, at home and in the background.
• → WALL is gone (the wall closed). SHARE… and → WAVE VIDEO still send your loop anywhere.
• DUO is off the FX fader for now.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-23

No release notes.

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