SAND vs PsiLoops

Have SAND in your pocket. Create music anywhere. Sketch your ideas, compose with MIDI and audio clips, host your favorite plugins. All designed for creative flow, whether you're at home or on the go. SAND is a music sketchpad for AUv3, MIDI, and audio clips—built so you can try ideas quickly, without setup getting in the way. Please note: SAND does not generate sound on its own—it relies on AUv3 plugins you can find on the App Store. Try SAND free for 14 days; in-app purchases unlock features after the trial. GRID SEQUENCER Arrange MIDI and audio clips on a grid to build your ideas. Copy, duplicate, merge, combine, and drag-and-drop clips to shape your project. Quick clip tools: quantize, length, legato, transpose from the clip menu. Render MIDI clips as audio by dropping them onto an audio track. MIDI TRACKS Work with instrument and MIDI tracks in your projects. Load an instrument and unlimited audio and MIDI effects on each track. Hide tracks and assign custom icons to keep sessions organized. Save tracks as templates for future projects. Edit MIDI in a piano-roll clip editor: quantize, legato, split, duplicate, copy, and paste. Build chords with the chord selector. Adjust note position, pitch, duration, and velocity. Handle bars edit position and pitch on the note. Use an adjustable grid or free placement. Scale highlighting helps you stay in key. Record with an optional count-in or from the first note. Quantize recordings for tighter timing. AUDIO TRACKS Add dedicated audio tracks alongside your MIDI material. Import audio into clips from other apps or the clip import flow, with preview before committing. Record audio into clips with per-track input settings and track arming. Set loop or one-shot playback, beat-aligned or immediate start, and optional clip BPM. Looping clips follow project tempo. The audio editor supports copy, paste, crop, gain adjustment, normalize, silence, fades, reverse, pitch, stretch, and split. With automatic or manual preview. PLUGIN HOST Host AUv3 instruments, audio effects, and MIDI processors. Control parameters and presets, and save default states for new instances. Record notes and MIDI from plugin interfaces, and capture output from MIDI plugins. Mark plugins as favorites for faster access. SONG MODE Arrange clips in sections with independent lengths, played back seamlessly in order. Launch every clip in a section at once, sections work as scene launchers. Set a different time signature per section when needed. AUTOMATION Automate volume, pan, effect parameters, and MIDI for dynamic changes across your tracks. MASTER TRACK Apply effects globally across the project. Use the master track's clip to generate bass lines and chord progressions. MIDI ROUTING Record from external MIDI devices, including hardware synths. Send MIDI out for real-time playback and route MIDI between tracks. Use SAND as a virtual MIDI input and output. MIDI MAPPING Map a MIDI controller to control the app with a flexible, customizable layout. "Shift" mappings extend what a single controller surface can do. PROJECT VERSIONS Save and restore named snapshots of a project—experiment freely, then return to an earlier state. PROJECT MANAGEMENT Rename projects and branch copies with Save As…. (iOS 18+) Start new work from project templates. (iOS 18+) SYNC Sync with other apps and DAWs using Ableton Link. ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD AND PADS Record with a velocity-sensitive on-screen keyboard. Choose scale and root to limit keys to a scale, and adjust visible keys to match how you play. Play and record beats with on-screen drum pads. IMPORT / EXPORT Export clips as audio or MIDI. Export projects as Ableton Live sets. Record performances and export audio, including stems for separate processing.

PsiLoops is a live loop app that lets you play a full bass-music set from your iPhone or iPad. Drop the drums, stack melody loops, fire a riser into the drop and ride the filter. Every change waits for the next bar, so it always lands in time, even if you've never made music before. Everything is on one screen, laid out like a groovebox, so your thumbs know where to go. PLAY A SET • Drum kits you build up layer by layer, from a lone kick to the full beat • Four rows of melody loops in two banks, each with its own volume, and every pad shows its loop's waveform • Rise and Drop sweeps for transitions, plus a grid of one-shot hits • Six effect knobs, always in reach: Filter, Reverb, Echo, Gate, Flanger and Mushroom • The Dice deals new sets when you're out of ideas ALWAYS ON THE BEAT • Quantize: loops, sweeps and drum changes land on the next beat, bar or two bars • Tempo anywhere from 50 to 200 BPM: hip-hop, dubstep, drum & bass and everything between • Learn mode labels every control. Live mode hides them and gives you bigger pads. SOUNDS FROM REAL ARTISTS Packs from 17 bass-music producers, from London to São Paulo: drum & bass, dubstep, riddim, psytrance, techno and hip-hop. RECORD AND SHARE Rec captures your whole set, plus your mic if you switch it on. Rap or sing over the beat, then share it from the app. SEE THE MUSIC MOVE Five visualizers: Phrase, Spectrum, Levels, RGB Wave and Spores. Tap any of them to go full screen. LOOP LAB: MAKE YOUR OWN SOUNDS (Pro) • Step Sequencer with 20 synths and samplers, keys and scales, layers, an arpeggiator and patterns up to 8 bars • Drum Lab: program beats up to 8 bars long across 14 lanes from 196 drum sounds, or import your own • Turn any MIDI file into loops: see every track, drag over the bars you want, hear them, and save as many to My MIDI as you like • Cut Loops: bring in any audio and it finds the tempo and snaps the loop to the bar • My Loops: every loop you've made in one place, ready to share as a tempo-tagged WAV or as MIDI • Set Builder: put your own loops into a set and play it live next to the artist packs ADVANCED EXPORT (Pro) • Stems: drums, both loop banks, one-shots and mic as separate files, ready for any DAW • MIDI: your whole performance, a track per part • WAV, FLAC or AAC, with streaming or club loudness PSILOOPS BRIDGE: PLAY INTO YOUR DAW (Pro) Our free Mac plugin (VST3 and Audio Unit, from psiloops.com/bridge) puts PsiLoops on a track in Ableton Live and other DAWs, over a USB cable or Wi-Fi. • Follows your DAW's tempo and starts on its bar • Drums, both loop banks, one-shots and FX on their own tracks, plus the notes as MIDI • Capture the last 4, 8 or 16 bars as WAVs and MIDI PLUGINS (for Pro subscribers) Instruments ported from our desktop plugins, bought once and kept. They play in the Step Sequencer, so they layer with everything else. • Growl: dubstep, riddim and tearout growl bass from one voice, with 24 presets and its own 16-step movement sequencer FREE OR PRO The free app is a whole instrument, not a demo. You get every control, all six effects, the Dice, the visualizers, a starter library of kits, loop sets and one-shots, and recordings up to 3 minutes long. PsiLoops Pro is a monthly subscription ($3.99 USD a month). It unlocks every artist pack (plus new ones as they land), unlimited recording, Loop Lab, Set Builder, Advanced Export and PsiLoops Bridge. Plugins are separate one-time purchases, available to Pro subscribers; a plugin stays yours if Pro ends and works again when you resubscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. No ads, ever. No account to make. Terms of Use: https://www.psiloops.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.psiloops.com/legal/privacy Download PsiLoops free and play your first set in the next five minutes.