yawp — drifting loops

loops that drift into music

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

yawp is an instrument made of loops. Draw a hill over a voice's line and the machine sows the notes. Every voice is a loop with its own length, so the loops drift apart and come back — minimal techno and ambient fall out of that drift on their own. There is no wrong way to draw a hill. TWENTY-TWO VOICES, ALL SYNTHESIZED A felt kick, a brushed clap, delicate hats, a walking electric bass, a felt piano, soft minor chords, vocal chops cut from an imagined take, a tine piano whose long tails stack into chords nobody wrote, an octave organ, a tape-hungry wash, a pluck that scatters light, and more. No samples anywhere — the whole app is synthesized live, loads instantly, and works offline. THE DICE Every launch opens on a fresh throw: the die deals the band one piece of music with a section in mind — an open groove, a thinned intro, a break, or the strict sixteenth hand. Keep what you like, redraw the rest. SCENES Watch the song as moving line art: a beacon on a plain, a sea behind glass, breathing tissue, a vessel of light. Swipe to the next one. Watching only — the music does the moving. PLAY IT FROM HARDWARE Plug in a MIDI controller: knobs ride the macros and the tempo, pads mute voices and launch your kept sets on the next bar, keys set the song's key or play notes into a loop. yawp sends every note and its clock out over MIDI, too. HAND IT ON Keep sets with their band, mix and key. Share a set as the stereo mix, a stem for every voice and one MIDI file — 32 bars from the same downbeat, ready to drop into any DAW. AND · tap a step to pin or silence it · drag a loop's end to change its length — odd meters are the same gesture · record up to ten seconds of anything — the mic, a headset or an audio interface — and chop it into an instrument · retune the whole song like a tuner (yawp · key A) · mix with hairline faders, mute and solo · record up to ten minutes of the mix and keep the take Most voices and scenes are free. Packs of two voices are one-time purchases, never a subscription. yawp complete unlocks everything — and every pack to come.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    4 Ratings

New in 1.0.1 • MIDI lanes: four new lanes, MIDI 1–4, that play your other synths and drum machines. Draw them like any loop, and set each one's channel and either notes in the song's key or a single drum note. yawp's own voices now stay inside yawp. • yawp in other music apps: yawp now appears as a MIDI port in other apps and DAWs, with a port for each MIDI lane, so every lane can play a different synth. • A MIDI sheet (⋮ → midi): choose what yawp listens to, what it plays, and whether it sends clock. • Undo and redo: ↶ ↷ beside ⋮ take back a drawn hill, a throw of the die or a turned knob. • The song's curves (with complete): a new drawer beside the mixer. Draw the song's arc: up lifts every loop, down thins and darkens them for a breakdown. Draw its chords, a step a bar, and the whole band moves to the next chord. 8, 16 or 32 bars. • Performance pads (with complete): freeze, stop, rev and half under the mixer's knobs. Hold one to take the whole mix; let go and the song is back, on time. Two stack (freeze and half together), and while you hold one, the other hand can keep playing. A controller's touch strips play them too. • An index of voices at the right edge: touch a glyph to bring that voice into view. Scrolling now comes to rest on a row. • Lock screen: play and pause from the lock screen, with the name of the set or take that is playing. • A longer tour, now also in Japanese: it lets you try the pads and the song's curves, points clearly at what to touch, and walks again after each update. The hints are in Japanese too. • Fixes: audio files from the Files app load into a chop lane again, a chop stops at once when you press stop, playback no longer hangs after another app takes the sound, and the mixer stays open while you throw the die.

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    Seller
    Kuta Tsuchikawa
    Size
    6 MB
    Category
    Music
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPod touch
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
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    Copyright
    © 2026 Stems