# Waveloop: Layerz — Realtime looper + AU host

> Realtime looper + AU host (iPhone/iPad app by Elijah Lucian.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/waveloop-layerz/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 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/waveloop-layerz/id6791702988/reviews.md

## What is Waveloop?

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.

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
Export a loop 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.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 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.

## More apps by Elijah Lucian

- [Choppa](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/choppa/id6759894845)
- [Tide: Beautiful Voice Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tide-beautiful-voice-notes/id6776111874)
- [LAOE](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/laoe/id6776118871)
- [Wake: Ultimate Field Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wake-ultimate-field-notes/id6788140771)
- [Infininote. Infinity + Notes.](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/infininote-infinity-plus-notes/id6797685573)

All apps by Elijah Lucian: https://appshunter.io/developer/1881481954

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