Loopy Pro vs Trace Sequenced Sample Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loopy Pro
This app is a customizable music creation environment that combines live looping, sampling, and MIDI sequencing. It offers a flexible canvas for building performance setups, designing instruments, and integrating external gear. Enjoy a free trial before a one-time purchase.
- Live looping with advanced recording options
- MIDI sequencing and piano roll editor
- Plugin hosting for AUv3 instruments and effects
- Customizable canvas with interactive controls
- Multitrack session recording
- Extensive MIDI controller support
- Audio routing and mixing capabilities
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Loopy Pro: Live Looper, Sampler, Sequencer, Customisable DAW Loopy Pro is a customisable music creation environment that blends looping, sampling, MIDI sequencing, and full plugin hosting — with a creative canvas that you control. Whether you’re building a performance environment, sequencing beats, designing your own instruments or effect chains, or syncing up with external gear, Loopy Pro gives you the tools to build exactly what you need. And have fun doing it! TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS — no commitment, no signup, no subscription. ————— CUSTOMIZE YOUR WORKFLOW Loopy Pro is like musical Lego. You can add loops, one-shots, and buttons to the canvas along with customized sliders, dials, XY pads, clip slicers, encoders, grids, and more. You can use your iPad or iPhone stand-alone, or connect audio interfaces, MIDI controllers and external instruments. ————— LIVE LOOPING WITHOUT LIMITS • Record with count-in/out or freely, with audio threshold, or retrospective capture • Detect loops automatically — just play and it finds the loop • Structure songs with Play Groups and transitions • Layer overdubs with peel/replace • Sync and quantize with groove and tempo control • Automate anything: trigger scenes, send MIDI, control effects, or react to clip events • Easily import audio to incorporate pre-recorded loops and samples, with studio-quality tempo and pitch controls • Use the project sequencer timeline for arranging songs completely hands-free, with all kinds of options for song sectioning ————— SEQUENCE MIDI & BUILD INSTRUMENTS • Record and edit MIDI clips with built-in MIDI sequencer/piano roll editor • Quantize with swing, randomness, or your own groove • Trigger audio clips polyphonically and pitched • Automate playback for hands-free performance ————— MIX, ROUTE & CONTROL YOUR SETUP • Full-featured mixer with inserts, sends, buses, and effect chains — perfect for deep sound design • Host AUv3 instruments, effects, and MIDI processors • Dock plugin windows for a clean workspace • Multitrack session recording with isolated stems ————— CONNECT WITH GEAR • Send/receive MIDI, sync clock, change patches • Use multi-channel audio interfaces • Route click track to your ears, loops to the PA • Control pedals, synths, other apps or hardware • Extensive MIDI controller support, including built-in support for the Launchpad, the APC Mini Mk2, APC Key 25 Mk2, APC40 Mk2, and the MIDI Fighter Twister, and effortless MIDI Learn for setting up your controllers. ————— USED BY MUSICIANS AT THE FRONTIER Loopy Pro is used on stages and in studios around the world by artists pushing the boundaries of live looping and performance. It’s more than an app — it’s a platform for musical invention. ————— PRICING Loopy Pro uses a classic pay-once model: • 7-Day Free Trial – No commitment. • One-time purchase – Keep forever. Includes all features released for the following 12 months. • Optional upgrades – Buy additional 12-month feature updates any time. You keep everything you pay for. No subscriptions. No lock-in. Just years of evolution, funded sustainably. Read more at loopypro.com/pricing ————— Questions? Reach out: support@loopypro.com Join the community: loopypro.com/communities If you’re unable to afford Loopy Pro or you’re from an educational institution, feel free to get in touch.
Trace Sequenced Sample Box
Create music with this versatile sample-based creation tool. It functions as a drum computer, groovebox, and sample animator with built-in effects and live performance capabilities. Generate unique rhythms and soundtracks using its priority-driven sequencer and extensive sound library.
- Sample-based music creation
- Drum computer and groovebox
- Sample animator
- Priority-driven sequencer
- Onboard effects
- Live performing skills
- Internal recorder
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WELCOME TO TRACE Trace is a versatile tool for sample based music creation presented by immons audio tools. It´s a drumcomputer, groovebox, sample animator and metronome with onboard effects and live performing skills. Use it intuitively to achieve unexpected, inspiring results and produce rhythms, complete playbacks, atmospheric soundtracks, etc.. It comes with a really special sequencer which is priority driven, means: One channel trigger at a time to create unusual patterns with automatic generated death notes. Do not have to preprogram any sequence. Just dial in the pattern length and tempo, choose a sample and divisor for each channel and let it swing. Create a song with the arranger and synchronize your patterns and selected channel delays to the global song speed. Play your animated samples, patterns and songs live with multiple realtime FX options per channel/group and use the internal recorder to tape your session to wav. Share your recorded wav´s via social media, e-mail and cloud, or drag and drop them, patterns and songs to your computer. Trace comes with more than 160 carefully created sounds. Each sequencer channel includes: Beat Divisor/Trigger 18 divisors/trigger points, including different subdivisions of 1/4 note. Changes happen on the fly, with preview. Sound Make your selection out of the provided onboard sounds and import your own samples and soundbanks to dial in your favorite tone. Changes happen on the fly, with preview. Volume Set the volume for each channel. Solo/Mute Select channel solo or mute a various number of channels and control this group with just one button. Swing/Probably Bring your beats up to life and build spacy rhythmical sculptures, jazzy grooves and audio landscapes. Includes negative swing. EFFECTS & PERFORMANCE Mixer is the integrated effects and performance tool of the sequenced sample box. It is intuitive operable without any menu scrolling and performance ready with the groupable options. You can shape the sound for each channel with: Delay 1 Every channel has it´s own full featured delay plus tap tempo, ms/bpm input and the possibility to sync the delays to future pattern speed changes. Delay 2 Rhythm delay with eighth dotted, quarter triplet, eighth and eighth triplet time presets relatet to delay 1 or pattern speed. Ring Modulator Add and subtract the dialed in oscillator frequency to your sample frequency and bring them together again for some really weird results. Bit Crusher Reduce the bit depth to add noise and sustain, works great in cooperation with the ring modulator. Varispeed Speed up or slow down the samples read speed, like a pitched tape recorder. Panorama Place sound in the stereo field. Mute With group option for assigned channels. RSP Reverse sample playback with group option for assigned channels to swap the status quo. Shortener Divide the sample length by factors 2/4/8 with group option for assigned channels to swap between your choice and full sample length. NOTE: All of the blocks listed above can be assigned to the master toggle switch to swap the status quo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Trace Sequenced Sample Box at free against Loopy Pro's free with in-app purchases. Trace Sequenced Sample Box also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Loopy Pro's advantage is ratings volume (952 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Loopy Pro sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Trace Sequenced Sample Box sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trace Sequenced Sample Box holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loopy Pro has 952 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Loopy Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Trace Sequenced Sample Box monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loopy Pro | Trace Sequenced Sample Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (952 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 952 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 215 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Tasty Pixel | Grohe & Giannakakis Applications GbR |
Customer experience
Loopy Pro
Trace Sequenced Sample Box
Bugs and requests
Loopy Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Audio cutting out randomly
- Crashes when loading large projects
- Issues with MIDI sync and control
Requested features
5 requests- MIDI looping functionality
- Improved audio editing capabilities
- Backup and restore options
- More built-in templates and presets
- Expanded Inter-App Audio support
Trace Sequenced Sample Box
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Loopy Pro
- 7-Day TrialFree
- 7-Day Trial (Upgrade 1)Free
- Upgrade3 variants$14.99
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- Internal Use Only$26.99
- Unlock Loopy Pro$29.99
Trace Sequenced Sample Box
- Pro$7.99
- Storage and Recoding$7.99
Questions
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