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FOR LIVE JAMS

Your phone is the groovebox. Play it live.

Hold a pad and bend it, drop patterns on the bar, loop one bar while the rest rolls on. Put a phone, a tablet and a laptop on the same beat and you have a rig to improvise on, alone or with other players.

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plip on a laptop in the studio look: a dot-matrix LCD with the tempo and pattern, CHOP held at 1/16, the master knobs and the instrument rows above a cream and black keyboard
The studio look on a laptop, with CHOP held.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

Grooveboxes are expensive and heavy.

Use what you already carry. plip runs on your phone, tablet or laptop, and it's free.

Laptop sets mean staring at a screen and clicking.

Pads you play with your fingers. Hold STUTR, CHOP, FILL, RISER, REVRS, DUB, PITCH or STOP and drag to bend it. Let go and it's gone.

One wrong tap can wreck the set.

Changes land on the bar. Patterns and mutes wait for the next bar line, pads only act while held, and UNDO (hold it for REDO) takes back anything else.

Syncing devices takes cables and setup.

One word, no cables. TOGETHER puts devices on one beat. The one plugged into the speaker plays every part, with a mixer strip each.

I never get a recording of the good jams.

Record as you play. MAKE A VIDEO captures the screen and the sound until you tap STOP. With friends, CLIP THAT keeps the last 30 seconds.

PERFORMANCE TOOLS

On the bar

Pattern changes wait for the next bar (double-tap to go now), and mutes can too, like launching clips.

Bar loops

Double-tap a page to loop that bar with everything else playing; add pages to loop them in order.

Moves that stick

Turn a knob with REC on and the motion plays every loop. Pattern knobs bring their own FX settings with each pattern.

Laptop and MIDI

Keys 1 to 8 hold the pads, Shift+1 to 4 switch patterns. MIDI keyboards and MIDI LEARN in Chrome and Edge.

ONE PERFORMER, SEVERAL DEVICES

  1. Start on the speaker device. Tap TOGETHER, INVITE FRIENDS, then THIS PHONE IS THE SPEAKER.
  2. Join from the others. Type the word or scan the code. Each becomes a player with its own part: drums on one, bass and chords on another.
  3. Play. Loops recorded anywhere join the speaker from the next pass; pads held on a player land on its part on the next beat.

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QUESTIONS

Can one person really play several devices at once?
Yes. Every device that joins your session is part of the band. Set one as THE SPEAKER and the rest send their parts and FX to it.
Can I finish the set in a DAW?
Yes. FOR YOUR DAW (under SHARE) exports the song as stems and a MIDI file of exactly the notes it plays.

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