Comparison

Loop Breaker vs Gravity & Wind

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Loop Breaker

This app transforms your audio loops into evolving compositions by introducing random modifiers and effects. It encourages creative exploration by letting you decide how to alter your sound or letting the app make choices for you.

Highlights
  • Gamified audio processing
  • Modifier system for effects
  • Probability system for modifier appearance
  • MIDI CC control for probability
  • Preset system for saving/recalling stacks
  • Record and resample audio output
  • Standalone app and AUv3 plugin
Features
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Loop Breaker is a gamified audio processing environment that periodically forces you to make choices about how your audio loops should change and how your compositions should unfold. This is primarily achieved through a modifier system; every few bars, a new modifier appears in a queue. You must decide which of your loops should be affected by the modifier. If you make no choice, Loop Breaker will decide for you. Change is the only constant. Modifiers include standard audio effects like reverb, delay, chorus, filters, granular delay, auto-pan, and tremolo. Each of these effects has multiple parameters that are set on the fly and include various onset times. Other modifiers effect loop playback: you can change the playback speed, reverse playback direction, time-stretch, re-pitch, move loop brackets via the parts system, and slice loops and then shuffle, arpeggiate, or repeat them. Modifiers stack. Within minutes, your loops will wander down their own paths and recombine to create something previously unimaginable. Loop Breaker also contains a robust probability system for controlling how likely it is that modifier types will appear in the queue and how likely it is that an individual loop will be targeted for modification, should you cede decision-making responsibilities to Loop Breaker. The probability system responds to MIDI CC messages, so you can dynamically change probability settings with MIDI controllers, automation lanes in your DAW, or via modulation sources. Loop Breaker also contains a preset system for saving and recalling modifier stacks. Take your explorations as far as you want, save a new preset, and then recall it later on, even between sessions. Like the pads and probability system, presets also can be controlled via MIDI. Still not enough exploratory madness for you? Record and resample the audio output and then re-apply it to a pad or process it further in your DAW. Loop Breaker works both as a standalone app and as a AUv3 plug-in. Loop Breaker knows that you have a hard drive full of 4-bar loops that you never turned into finished compositions. Loop Breaker wants to help. Loop Breaker wants to make sure you don't get stuck in a loop.

About

Gravity & Wind

Features
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Gravity & Wind is a physics-driven generative MIDI sequencer and performance controller for iPhone and iPad. Build evolving sequences with Timed generation, hold an exact population with Fixed mode, or tap the field to perform directly. Shape gravity, directional dual-noise wind, bounce, and velocity response, then turn floor impacts into quantized MIDI notes. Free features include five scales (Major, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic and Chromatic), 12 factory scenes, motion control, all generation modes, basic CoreMIDI Note/Velocity output, output channels, Bluetooth MIDI, manual sustain-pedal forwarding and up to five user scenes. Presets play with their saved scales, MIDI/Auto pitch, CC and sustain settings even in the free version. You can turn advanced settings off, edit basic parameters, and save within the five-scene limit. Enabling or changing advanced modes requires Pro; reloading a preset restores its settings. MIDI Learn/mappings and MIDI ball triggers remain Pro features. A single, permanent Pro in-app purchase unlocks choosing all 24 scales, enabling and editing advanced preset modes, and the MIDI Processor AUv3 with host sync, automation and project recall; MIDI chord pitch control and Channel 2 ball triggers; MIDI Learn; scene-energy CC 1, Wind CC 2, Direction CC 3; Held and chord-aware Automatic Sustain; and unlimited user scenes shared with the AU. No subscription. Eligible customers who purchased the app before the switch receive Pro automatically. Gravity & Wind has no built-in sound source. Route its MIDI to a software instrument, hardware synthesizer, or DAW. No separate account registration, advertising, or third-party analytics. Purchases and restoration use your Apple Account through the App Store.

Screenshots

Loop Breaker4 screens
Gravity & Wind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gravity & Wind at Free against Loop Breaker's $4.99. Loop Breaker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Gravity & Wind is free to download; Loop Breaker costs $4.99 up front. Gravity & Wind sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Loop Breaker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Loop Breaker versus Gravity & Wind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoop BreakerGravity & Wind
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlowMachine LLCMaglav Studio K.K

In-app purchases

None

Loop Breaker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gravity & Wind

One-time1
  • Gravity & Wind Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Loop Breaker free?
Loop Breaker costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gravity & Wind free?
Gravity & Wind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Loop Breaker or Gravity & Wind have ads?
Neither Loop Breaker nor Gravity & Wind shows ads.

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