LOOPA release | web simulator | AI studio

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[00:00:00]Hi, I'm Ilia this is Loopa and this is also  Loopa. And we are back with some news. Since the very beginning of the project Loopa was meant  to be way more than just another synthesizer.

[00:00:13]It should be a multi-tool, a platform,  and a community. And as you may know, the main blocker of the project now is hardware.  I'm working on it to make it stable, reliable, and ready for mass production. However it's  not that easy as the device complexity is already close to a smartphone I would say and it  feels kind of stupid that people need to wait for the hardware despite they already see some cool  demos on the internet and constantly ask me. So I thought that it would be cool to give people the  ability to try loopa through just a web browser.

[00:00:48]I spent some time learning how to compile my C++  code to web assembly and I was really surprised that it works even on the smartphone. So the next  thing I thought was what if people will be able to create their own plugins right in a browser for  the loopa hardware with help of AI. So here we are and I will now give a quick tour over the website  starting from the simulator tab. first of all here are key mappings, simulator loads a sample project  with different instruments and sounds and you can select them by pressing shift plus touch key. Even  recorder is working in browser. So you can sample sounds directly from your laptop microphone and  I would say most of functionality is present in the web version. However, the time you can use  the simulator is limited by 30 minutes and after that each new device created in studio gives you  one more hour. So let's jump into studio. On the left side, you can see some devices I've already  created. There is a playable device preview with debug output and a code editor with two files.  Both are generated by AI. So you don't need to be a C++ expert to build a loopa plug-ins. And  speaking about AI, on the right pane there is a chat area. If you have some credits, you can  just type your prompt here like make a marimba.

[00:02:10]And after some thinking, your device will  appear in preview. If you don't have credits, then there is a completely free option. You can  just copy paste the system prompt to your favorite AI assistant and copy paste files back. And let  me show some devices I've already created using studio like this or this kind of banjo with at  least banjo visuals or this nice deep something.

[00:02:40]or this kind of Tibetan bowl. And let's now check  out the explore tab uh where we can see and play devices other people created. One of my favorite  devices at this time is this lord organ by Chartman. I have no idea what this numbers mean,  but it sounds pretty like something from 70s.

[00:03:12]There is also a nice club heifer.  Probably she likes hardbass.

[00:03:26]In general, there are three categories of devices.  instruments, audio effects, and midi effects. And here's an example of a midi effect. some balls  bouncing inside a polygon to trigger MIDI notes.

[00:03:42]That's pretty much it. I hope you will enjoy Web  Loopa Simulator and Studio. And I also hope that at the moment of physical release, we will have  a community-driven library of Loopa devices.