Live Mic Presets vs PadLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Live Mic Presets
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Live Sound Assist helps live-sound users prepare microphones, speaker systems, venue paperwork, and quick RTA checks faster with practical starting points for EQ, gate, compression, reverb, and feedback control. Browse microphone presets by brand, model, source type, and use case. Compare processing for speech, vocals, instruments, choirs, drums, and common live-sound sources, then inspect HPF, gate, 4-band PEQ, compressor, and reverb guidance before touching the console. Speaker presets add practical starting points for common professional PA families. Use the RTA tool for quick microphone measurements, 31-band spectrum checks, spectrograph history, stable feedback-candidate detection, calibrated SPL setup, measurement-mic correction profiles, and dual-channel alignment readings when compatible input hardware is connected. Use Guided Setup to create printable stage plot/input sheets with channel labels, mic choices, stand notes, monitor notes, and processing summaries. Use the Send tab to set a local Mixing Station host, port, and input channel. Dry Run shows the planned channel operations first. Live Apply is protected by a safety confirmation because mixer processing can be overwritten on the selected channel. Built for churches, schools, event production, volunteer audio teams, and engineers who need a consistent starting point before tuning the room. Brand names and marks are used for identification only. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PadLoop
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Sixteen pads, a track looper and a sampler: PadLoop turns your phone into a real instrument for making beats with your fingers - no musical training needed. Try everything free for 7 days. After that PadLoop stays free with 2 banks, 2 looper tracks and one project, or you unlock everything with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. NEW ⢠Ready beats: 24 complete grooves (Trap soul, Afrobeats, Deep house, UK drill, Funk, Lo-fi...), each with its own bank, tempo and swing, drums and music already recorded. One tap and you play over them ⢠Optional plugins: 6 sound kits (Reggaeton, Afro & Amapiano, Jungle & DnB, Phonk, Drum Machines, Percussion) and 4 instruments with real recorded notes (grand piano, marimba & vibraphone, strings, winds) ⢠Split a song: the Stem split plugin separates a track into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, right on your phone, no internet needed. Then put the parts on your pads (needs 3 GB of RAM or more) ⢠Pedals: MIDI pedals run the looper hands-free ⢠More precise mic recording: the delay is stored separately for speaker, headphones and Bluetooth ⢠On first launch, if you like, an example to listen to or a step-by-step guide PLAY ⢠8 sound banks (128 pads): drums, basses, synths, vocals - all replaceable ⢠Touch dynamics: hard at the bottom, soft at the top, like real pads ⢠Keyboard: play any sound in a scale with no wrong notes, chords included ⢠Note repeat with Latch, an arpeggiator, 16 Levels (the same sound at sixteen velocities), hold-down effects (filter, echo, reverb, lo-fi...) ⢠Shape every pad: pitch, reverse, envelope, filter, echo, lo-fi RECORD LOOPS ⢠Hit REC and play: the loop records itself and keeps going, layer after layer ⢠Up to 16 synced tracks: name them and drag them into your own order, without stopping the loop ⢠Time-stretch: a loop follows the project BPM without changing pitch ⢠Quantization with a selectable grid (8ths, 16ths, triplets, 1/32) or off - and you can change it afterwards ⢠Step sequencer with per-cell hit strength: accents and ghost notes ⢠Mute in time, per-layer undo, loop doubling, swing SAMPLE ANYTHING ⢠Record from the mic, import audio files, take the sound from a video, or resample the app itself ⢠Trim with handles, split on hits automatically or chop by hand; clean up steady background noise ⢠Sound library with 558 ready-made sounds and 29 pre-built banks SING AND SHARE ⢠Record your voice straight onto a track, in time with the beat ⢠Save your own banks and share them with friends as a file ⢠Record your live performance, effects and mistakes included ⢠Export to MP3/WAV or as separate tracks, at the same full level you hear in the app BUILT FOR REAL PLAYING ⢠A "?" on the main screens explains every button, with the full guide one tap away ⢠Two calibrations, for taps and for the mic, so what you record lands where you played it ⢠MIDI controllers and keyboards, USB and Bluetooth, with MIDI learn ⢠Autosave and one-file project backup HONEST ⢠No ads. Ever. For anyone. ⢠No subscriptions: a 7-day trial with everything unlocked, plugins included, then playing stays free forever (2 banks full of sounds, 2 looper tracks with the microphone too, one project) ⢠A single one-time purchase unlocks everything: the full sampler, all 8 banks, 16 tracks, 558 sounds, 29 ready-made banks, 24 Ready beats, all plugins, export, performance recording, unlimited projects ⢠Everything you create stays yours and keeps playing, no matter what Make your first beat in thirty seconds. The rest follows.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PadLoop at 15.0 against Live Mic Presets's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Live Mic Presets sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PadLoop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Live Mic Presets ships an update every 10 days, PadLoop weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live Mic Presets | PadLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Fry | POSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA. |
In-app purchases
Live Mic Presets
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Expert Monthly$11.991 Month
- Pro Annual$34.991 Year
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- Expert Annual$89.991 Year
- Expert Lifetime$149.99
PadLoop
- 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Full Unlock$9.99
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