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CLUSTER LOOPS-MOBILE-LAYER · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-03-16

Music looping and recording apps

This cluster comprises mobile and desktop tools for music creation, centered on looping, recording, and real-time audio manipulation, including MIDI control and retro sound simulations. The dated history before the index start shows sparse entries across a decade, with a slight concentration from 2021 to 2026, but overall the pattern is too irregular to call a clear trend. Traction leaders are listed as GarageBand, cassette-flutter, and Alligator Bytes, though all exhibit zero activity stars, indicating no meaningful traction yet.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2011: 1MAR 2016: 1DEC 2024: 1MAR 2025: 1MAY 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
MAR 2011OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 2 commercial · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01GarageBand0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that turns touch devices into a virtual studio for playing instruments, recording performances, and creating music tracks.
  2. 02looper0★18 days—hobbyMusic application that lets performers arrange loop regions on a timeline and then records and replays audio and MIDI hands-free during live performance.
  3. 03Alligator Bytes0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that records short musical loops and alters their playback sound in real time based on the device's physical movement.
  4. 04Midandpad0★3 moliveopen sourceMobile app that acts as a MIDI controller, sending MIDI signals to an external synthesizer without producing sound itself.
  5. 05Tune Tangler0★4 moliveopen sourceMobile app that records and loops short musical tracks in a grid, letting users layer, remix, and share audio clips.
  6. 06Blocs Wave: Record Music Live0★1 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app for recording and looping music live, letting users slice sounds, layer real-time loops and build songs from a sound library.

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