Nanoloop App Reviews

Apart from that, it's a fine tool, so I hope we won't have to wait for too long...

very very happy this got ported to ios.

Had nanoloop for a while now and probably one of the greatest music making apps on iOS never had a problem easy to pick up and includes a tutorial in app too would buy again

Would love to use the app but can’t. Doesn’t look like it’s maintained, either, so I don’t have high hopes for this getting fixed.

Nice sounds of gameboy beeps!! Thanks you!!

Incredible work

The app opens but there is no sound on iOS 7

I would be so happy if you added all the features from the android version to the iOS version. Here are some of the things I miss the most since switching to iOS: - amplitude modulation for the fm synth - the ability to have notes play every other bar by dragging the step to the left or right - longer sample lengths - more sensitive pitch editing A big problem I am having is that my .nan files from android won't open on my iPhone. I think there's a compatibility issue between the platforms because of the differences in features. I can open .nan files cross-platform if they were made on older versions of nanoloop that didn't have all the new features that the newer android versions have Also here are a few more general suggestions: - True polyphony: The ability to put 3 notes on the same step so they all play at the same time. - 3/4 time signature support. - Master send effects (reverb, delay, distortion) - Triangle wave instrument with built in bitcrusher and downsampling effects. - Independent 3 band equalizers for each track. - Independent tempo multipliers per track. For example you could have one track set to 100bpm and another one at 2x (200bpm). You could get some crazy aggressive sounds if you could multiply the tempo of a single track by 10x or more. Like the huge master tempo range nanoloop already has but per track. - More accurate decay slider in the sampler. Right now if you set the decay at 127 then it will play the entire length of the sample (as expected), but then if you lower the decay a little bit to about 123 or so then it sounds like the decay is set to 50 and the sample gets cut very short. Don't get me wrong, nanoloop is amazing. It's my favorite app of all time and I probably use it an unhealthy amount 🙃. It's so good. I mainly just want the iOS version to get updated to the same extent that android has been. Anyway sorry for the novel, and thank you SO MUCH for making such an amazing music making platform.

If this worked on my ipad I'd never sleep.

Works great on ipad with update.

Please PLEASE make it iPad compatible.

Still one of the simplest, more powerful and most effective sequencers out there. Love nano loop.

I just love this unique Minimal Music Composing/Sound Design tool. Aesthetically, is just beautiful how every tool is design. This will offer you months of experimenting with all aspects of Sound, sound design and music making. Whatever sounds are in your head, there's a chance that you'll be able to make it a reality with NanoLoop. You can sample anything you want, then, edit, chop it, form layers of sounds, apply some sound shaping parameters and that's it, you have just did your first Sound Design project. I had to give it a WELL DESERVED 5 Can't wait for future updates.

This is honestly better than garage band

Took me about 20 minutes of poking around the app to see what it could do until I finally read the documentation, which clarified everything. Once you have a solid understanding of how to navigate the app and adjust things, making loops is simple and fun. And with all that you can do to really tweak the sound, output to midi, and export audio, it’s definitely worth the money. Addicted.

the app is GREAT, but it is does not fit the screen :(

So minimalist, so fast. It's just excellent.

So thrilled to have the universal app, but it crashes on launch.. iPad 2, ios 7...

The update crashes on start up on my original ipad mini. Before that, it was a 4.5 star app. I used to use it for my rap project, "Big Epoch". Now I'm going to have to rap over nothing :/ (I'm on iOS 7)

Favorite iOS music app of all time. Insanely powerful and fun. For those who know.

I love this sequencer! The ability to record and mangle your own samples is great, and the inclusion of save and export functions is also a biiiig plus. A bit cryptic at first but really terrific once you figure it out. The help file is useful... Just good stuff. The Loop function gets a little wonky if you change the Sequence Length, so there is room for improvement. Give it a shot!

Hands down the best music app that I use. Updated regularly and always fun to play with

From every angle Nanoloop is a slam-dunk of minimal beauty (genius UI) and unlimited potential (user samples x brilliant sequencing capability). There's a small learning curve to get acquainted with the concept and navigation preceding an absolutely lovely Nanoloop workflow. Whether creating with the apps internal synthesis or imported samples (or a combination of both) exact ideas can be executed and in addition I've never experienced more natural innovation and happy accidental "lightning in a bottle" moments as when using Nanoloop (and I currently own almost every iOS sequencer there is). Beautiful!

It's hard to improve on greatness, but Oliver sure did.

Nanoloop is a brilliant chip tunes/minimalist music app! For chiptunes I’ve been using LSDJ for the gameboy and MSSIAH for the C64 and nanoloop on the iPhone is a formidable companion. It is capable of excellent lofi sampling and sample manipulation, Simple FM synthesis ,Simple pulse wave based sounds, 8 and 16-Bit noise etc. but the real power comes from the sequencer, essentially you modulate every parameter per step which is very similar to the unparalleled Elektron sequencers! In fact I’m currently running it though my octatrack for sampling and processing. The possibilities are endless and the UI is genius. If you are already into or curious about creating chiptune/lofi music this app is a no brainer! It’s incredibly fun and I couldn’t recommend it more!

This is without doubt the worst sounding and least useful sequencer/synth I have ever encountered.

Thanks new version is great!

a five year old could make a better app

Every iOS music app should have audiobus support, in my opinion, which nanoloop lacks. Why wouldn't developers want folks to get the most out of their music apps by allowing them to work with other music apps? Tear down this wall! Then I'll give five stars.

very simple and easy to get started. once you have it figured out its amazing what you can do. great for use as a musical sketch pad or even to complete entire songs.

Sporadically crashes and loses data on my iPhone 5C with iOS7. Like the updates and will LOVE the app if/when the problems are fixed.

Nanoloop is easily my favorite music making app for the iPhone (and I use it on my iPad too). The bass is fantastic and being able to record and play with samples from your microphone is great. At first I was expecting this to be a chiptuney emulator of original Nanoloop for Gameboy, but it's really a much more powerful synthesizer than that. The minimalist layout takes a little getting used to, but the help button is a great way to learn the apps navigation. One of my favorite features of Nanoloop is the ability to Nanoloop song files to friends. I've been mixing and trading songs with folks all over the world. There is also a great community on the Nanoloop forum and the developer has been constantly listening to feedback and improving the app. Side note: Nanoloop for Gameboy and GBA are very similar to Nanoloop for iPhone. This is a great way to easily dip your toes into chip music. I still use the iPhone version for all of my compositions, then port them over to Nanoloop 2.6 for my GBA.

This is a really quick and fun app to get into and make a loop go on. It's somewhat friendly - you can easily get the basics running, but to master it will surely require some manual reading :) I recommend this to anyone interested in chiptune and other genres too. Sampling capability just makes it even more awesome ;)

This is a surprisingly refined little music creation tool. Once you learn the interface, it's very usable even on a small screen, unlike the majority of other iOS music apps. This would be the first app I'd recommend to any "mobile musician".

don't let the spare interface fool you. it's very deep. you can spend hours exploring sound & be deeply engaged the whole time. do nano-loop, not drugs.

Get it. It's the most amazing thing I've ever used. It's actually better than most of the ones I use for the computer. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's a great app for making unique music but when i exported it to my laptop to save in my documents my song sounded different from when i made it on the app :/.

This app no longer works with iOS 8, and the sounds are completely messed up. please help/fix! :(

Wonderful sounding. Great UI, thoughtful gestures. The addition of MIDI sync is fluting great. AB support would complete the package. Works equally well on iPhone and iPad. Not many apps - even significantly simpler apps - can say that. Get it, sample something, and definitely read the manual/watch some tutorials. There is a lot of hidden wonderful in here.

While I love this program, I have to give it lower rating due to the lack of audiobus support. It either get that or effects built in. Sorry.

This app is a great way to create some original beats. The only reason I'm rating it a 4 out of 5 rather than 5 is lack of audiobus support. This would truly make this app awesome if it had this feature as it would greatly enhance the functionality.

My favorite step sequencer, so simple yet so capable! I hear there's a midi version in the pipes wink wink say no more. That will make me as happy as a little girl! And now we dance!

I like the app and its cool to compose music on it but it does not run smooth as it keeps glitching out on me and does not run smooth. Im not making anything too complex but i do use my own samples maybe that could be the problem? Either way it could be better.

Nanoloop is so much fun to work with, given its limitations and minimal interface. I have but one issue with Nanoloop. For some inexplicable reason, the app emits no sound if the mute switch is flipped on. That switch mutes your incoming calls and alerts. I’ve plays a small handful of games that work this way too. I don’t recall which ones because I don’t play them any longer. I stick with Nanoloop only because it’s such a fantastic music tool. This little itch under my skin drops a 5 Star rating down to 3 stars. Some day, I would really like to amend this rant and change the rating. Sincerely, Mr. Annoyed-when-my-phone-rings-at-the-office-because-I-forgot-to-flip-the-mute-switch-back-after-using-Nanoloop-before-I-went-in-to-work

Awesome for making quick loops.

I have had a ton of fun and written a lot of music with this app. I've had it over 3 years and I still regularly use it to play and to write.

This is the best in the world¡!¡!

Nanoloop is one of those older iOS music apps that predates the "AudioBus" era, and tends to get overlooked even though it actually retains a great deal of usefulness in music-making. In fact, Nanoloop has been around for even longer than that, and has been available on other platforms, such as Game Boy. While the interface looks a little frightening and dated at first, there's actually quite a bit more depth here than you might think. You get a simple step sequencer grid, but the touch controls allow you to add, copy, change, and modify notes for each step. There is a lo-fi synth engine built into it, so you have the choice of about 3 or 4 different waveforms and then basic controls over volume, decay, attack, etc. There's even a sampler that works with the microphone (though it seems to crash my iPad2, but not my iPhone). After you have a single pattern, there are options to loop it with other patterns, or to play multiple parts/instruments at the same time. Search for some YouTube tutorials on how you can make somewhat complex sounding tunes with this basic engine. For all of those reasons, I think it's a 5-star app in terms of features, but there are some problems/omissions I can't ignore. Despite being updated recently (2014, I believe), the developer still never added AudioBus or IAA compatability. Also, the sampler requires iTunes File Sharing to import .wav files, which is annoying, and would really benefit from a simple "Open In" option. Still, the app makes it simple enough to export .wav loops, and if you have a companion app like AudioShare, you can work with that easily enough to export things into your DAW. If you think this app strictly as a sketchpad for creating simple melodic patterns, it's actually quite useful. It's universal, will run on anything, and takes virtually no storage space. It's an outdated app in many ways that remains relevant because of good touchscreen implementation and simplicity of design. I do just wish they'd add a couple of modern features, and correct the occasional glitches and crashes you have to expect from time to time.

This has been a super sweet app for years, waiting for audiobus support to be a five star. Unique and awesome

Really cool app, but I cannot record samples directly.

Also, iPad refused to access microphone so no sampling possible. Very fiddle and MIDI sounding. There’s way to much great tech available to have patience with something like this. Kudos to Doc Pop for making an explanation video... I get exactly what the app does even though I can’t get it to sample. Hard pass.

This is the ONLY app I use to make music. I don’t claim to be a professional musician but this app is truly versatile, and for a reasonable price. Perfect for minimalistic beats and extremely easy as an entry-level musician to get the hang of sculpting a song. The creators regularly update the app and have addressed and fixed some issues I had with previous versions. Highly recommend this app.

Very nice app, i actually want to get into making music whether for fun or maybe getting into it more in the future. The only problem however is that the app isnt making any sound for me anymore. Not sure if its a bug, already tried pressing all controls and making sure that nothing is muted but there is just no sound and so far, the app for me is unusable. Hope i can get help from this please 👍

This thing is so much fun, I was so sad to see the sample recording feature broken with OS updates but looks like they updated to fix it, YAY!!! A little bug exists where when I first open it, it comes out of the earphone rather than the speaker. Thanks for not forgetting us! Update: New version seems to have fixed everything and is a delight. This is likely my favorite app for mobile music creativity. Couldn’t possibly recommend this enough, not just for chiptune stuff, the sampler is in a world of it’s own!!

Been using for a long time. I was afraid it was abandoned. It is naaaaht!