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Best loop station apps for android

As musicians, it is important to be ready when inspiration strikes. Loop stations are a great way to record music and sound in real time. Our smartphones can perform this task for us and these loop station apps are ones to consider installing.

List of the best apps

1.LoopStation Premium

Paid: $2.99

This is the premium version of LoopStation, an app that will allow you to record yourself, merge tracks, add sound effects and loop all your music to create new songs. 

  • Doris Williamson

    by Doris Williamson

    This seems to me a little hard to work with and there are quite a few hiccups for the average person using it. I think there are plenty of looping app More

  • Deng Qian

    by Deng Qian

    For doing my music, I always use this app especially in looping. What's even better is I can export my audio files to email, Facebook or SoundCloud!

  • Ryan Ford

    by Ryan Ford

    LoopStation Premium will get you making your own tracks in no time. It is easy to use and has many different sound effects too.

  • Keith Johnston

    by Keith Johnston

    Much better than the non-premium version. Perfect for simulating loop pedals in making songs straight out of your Android device!

2.LoopStation

with in-app purchases

This app will transform your Android device into a musical instrument, which will allow you to record yourself and combine them into one audio file. 

  • Ralph Lynch

    by Ralph Lynch

    LoopStation turns your android device into a one stop for all sort of musical instruments and creating masterpieces.

  • Donald Chavez

    by Donald Chavez

    Great loop app for Android. Does the basic things you would expect from a loop device. It's much more non-compressed sounding than other apps like

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3.TapeMachine Recorder

Paid: $4.99
This is a high-quality sound recorder and editor app, featuring a powerful waveform display. The MP3 codec is available as a free add-on from the website, under certain conditions. 
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  • Grace Thompson

    by Grace Thompson

    This has been my go-to super basic looper app before but now that the Lite version is up, i think it's better because it has longer recording time available. Not the most technical app for loops but surely does the job for demos

4.uFXLoops Music Studio

with in-app purchases

uFXLoops is a free app developed by ufxmedia. It features loop sequencing, beat making, song producing and soundboard for songwriters and musicians which are supported with MIDI and Soundfront. 

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  • Liu Ma

    by Liu Ma

    A little bit complex for first time users but when the more I use it, I became familiar with this app. The variety of choices like the instruments is  More

  • by Christian Estrada

    This app is the best if you're looking to really incorporate samples into multi-track recording from your Android device. Quite tricky at first but

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5.FreeLoop

Free download

FreeLoop is a free app developed by Afnan Enayet. It is a looper pedal simulator by connecting to a guitar amplifier and external microphone using an OTG cable. Moreover, it can also be used in beatboxing. 

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  • Kevin Qiu

    by Kevin Qiu

    Nice! It feels like a real looper pedal. I tried this with my guitar amplifier and it really worked!

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    by Cory Murdoch null

    You can shear your songs.. other than that's it's a good app

  • Joseph Richardson

    by Joseph Richardson

    This has been updated to address playback problems and has been now suitable as a loop app. This is now a decent tool for multitrack recording to b

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6.Looper

Free download

Looper is an app that allows you to create music using many tools, like metronome, overdub, special effects, and different tracks. 

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  • Sanvi Jhadav

    by Sanvi Jhadav

    Looper allows me to create my phone into my own personal music player. It allows me to create music exactly how I want to listen to it.

  • Guillermina Ventura

    by Guillermina Ventura

    I've used this a few times on my phone my trying out guitar recordings with loops and it took me a few takes to really learn it but it was actually

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WHAT’S THE MEANING?

A loop station is a device that allows the recording and playback of sound in real-time. It is often used by single musicians to layer their sound and create the illusion of a full band. It has changed the concept of a one-man band from a person playing various musical instruments simultaneously, to a person who plays multiple instruments individually and layering the sound together through a live loop.

DID YOU KNOW?

Ed Sheeran is known for using a loop station for all of his live events to build his songs instrument by instrument and harmony by harmony. He has once been accused of “miming” in a 2017 concert in Glastonbury, as some concert-goers have observed that the sound of his guitar carries on in the background even though he’s stopped playing it. In actuality, Sheeran was using a loop station to record a segment of music and to play it back on loop. The singer-songwriter took to Twitter to defend himself by saying “Never thought I’d have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live, it’s a loop station, not a backing track. Please google.” Other than Ed Sheeran, musical artists who use a loop pedal for their performances are Howie Day, Kimbra, Reggie Watts, and KT Tunstall.

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