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The LoopPinscher

Turn one melodic loop into a dozen new takes. Halftime speeds, a chop engine that fills the piano roll for you, fifteen moves you can draw yourself, and one click to put the loop in your song's key.

VST3 · AU · FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic Pro and more · Mac & Windows

The Loop Pinscher plugin window: the chop piano roll with stutter, repeat, scratch, reverse, half, tape and filter moves across four bars; the key bar reading Ab major / F minor moved to A minor; CHOP set to Stutter on bars 1 to 4; speed at 0.5x half time; and the target key A minor.

The Loop Pinscher v1.3 · actual plugin window

What it does to a loop

Halftime, chops and key matching in one window

Drop it on a Splice or Looperman loop and click around. Every result lands on the grid, respects the downbeat, and stays in key.

Speed

Quarter time to double time

Nine speeds over any loop length from a 1/16 note to four bars. Choose tape-style pitch drop or keep the pitch where it was.

0.25x · 0.33x · 0.5x … 1.75x · 2x
Chop

Chops that fill the roll for you

Eight styles with 128 versions each, including groove versions that hit inside the bar. Pick which bars get chopped; your own notes are never touched.

STUTTER · ROLL · GATE · TRIPLET · FLIP
Draw

A piano roll of moves

Draw fifteen moves over four or eight bars, FL Studio style. Stack a reverse on a stutter, or a filter sweep on anything.

15 MOVES · 4 OR 8 BARS
Key

One click to your key

The loop's key is detected for you. Click your song's key and the loop moves there by the shortest route, with octave and fifth harmonies on tap.

F MIN → A MIN −8 st
The piano roll

Fifteen moves, in four groups

Rhythm and speed moves stack on top of each other, tone moves sit over everything. Right-click deletes and Shift-drag copies, just like FL Studio's piano roll.

RHYTHM

STUTTER
Hammers the same slice at any rate from 1/4 down to 1/64.
REPEAT
Replays the slice just before it.
ROLL
A fast drum-roll repeat that can speed up or slow down.
SCRATCH
A baby scratch, push and pull.
SWAP
Plays a different beat of the loop in its place.

SPEED

REVERSE
Plays the section backwards.
HALF · DOUBLE
Drops the section to half speed or doubles it.
TAPE STOP
Winds down like a tape machine losing power.
TAPE START
Spins up from a standstill.

TONE

FILTER DOWN
A low-pass sweep, slow, medium or fast.
FILTER UP
A high-pass sweep for risers.
SILENCE
Drops the loop out, hard or soft.

PITCH

PITCH BEND
Bends the loop up or down and back, right on the grid.
S · M
Solo or mute any row to hear one move on its own.
Key matching

Your loop is in F minor. Your song is in A minor.

The Pinscher reads the loop, you click the target, and the key bar spells out exactly what it's doing.

  • Shortest route. The loop never moves more than half an octave, so it keeps its character.
  • Relative keys count. Ab major and F minor share the same notes, so a loop already in either one stays put.
  • Tape speed accounted for. Slowing the loop drops its pitch, and the key move corrects for it.
  • KEY LOCK. Lock the key once and it stays with your song, through presets, RANDOM and undo.
LOOP KEYAb MAJ / F MIN · 99%
TARGET KEYA MIN
F MIN → A MIN −8 st
HARMONYOCT+ · OCT− · 5TH · 4TH
The details

Built for working sessions

PRINT

Print the result

Record exactly what you hear for the piano roll's length, then drag the WAV straight onto a track.

110+

Factory presets

Stutters, rolls, hi-hat moves, halftime and full stacks. Save your own too.

50

Levels of undo

Every knob, preset and piano-roll edit, with A | B slots to compare two takes.

RANDOM

One-click ideas

RANDOM and SHUFFLE roll new chops and speeds without ever touching your key.

75–150%

Scalable window

Fits a 13" laptop or a 4K studio screen. The size is remembered.

1

Running Doberman

Legend runs with the audio, reverses on a reverse and sits when you stop. He may have a few secrets.

Hear it

Before and after

Audio and video demos are on the way.

Original loopDemo coming soon

A straight 4-bar melodic loop, as it comes from the pack.

Through the PinscherDemo coming soon

Half speed, stutter chops on every bar, moved into the song's key.

Free companion pluginFree download

Fetch: the key and tempo analyzer

Put Fetch on any track, press play, and it reads the key, the tempo and the tuning. Pick your song's key and it tells you the exact move to make. Your audio passes through untouched.

  • Key and relative key. "C MIN, same notes as Eb MAJ", with the next-likeliest key when it's close.
  • Tempo against your project. Half-time and double-time readings, and how much to speed up or slow down to fit.
  • Tuning in cents. Spots loops that sit slightly sharp or flat.
  • Shift the loop. Click your song's key and Fetch shows the move, like "+4 st, C MIN → E MIN".
Download Fetch free
Fetch plugin window: key C minor, same notes as Eb major, maybe G minor; tempo 92 BPM in a 90 BPM project, speed times 0.978 to fit; target key E minor with a shift readout of plus 4 semitones, C minor to E minor.

Fetch v1.2 · actual plugin window

Pricing

One price. Yours to keep.

FLAGSHIP
The Loop Pinscher
$39ONE-TIME
  • Speed, chop, piano roll and key system
  • All fifteen moves, with stacking
  • PRINT, RANDOM, A | B and 50 undos
  • 110+ factory presets plus your own
  • VST3 and AU for Mac, VST3 for Windows
  • Free updates for version 1
Secure checkout by Lemon Squeezy.
Free download
Fetch
$29FREE
  • Key, relative key and confidence
  • Tempo with project-fit readout
  • Tuning in cents
  • Target key shift readout
No card needed.
Formats and questions

Works where you work

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What kind of loops does it work on?

Melodic loops of any kind: keys, guitars, synths, strings, sample-pack melodies and loops from other producers. It's built for the loops you'd find on Splice and Looperman.

How is it different from HalfTime?

HalfTime changes speed. The Pinscher does that, then adds a chop engine that writes patterns for you, a fifteen-move piano roll where moves can stack, and a key system that moves the loop into your song's key.

Do I need Fetch if I buy the Pinscher?

No, the Pinscher reads the key on its own. Fetch is for everything else: finding the key and tempo of any track, sample or full song in your session.

Does Fetch change my audio?

No. Fetch only listens. The audio comes out exactly as it went in.

Why is double speed late on the first bar?

A plugin can't play audio that hasn't arrived yet. Turn on LOOK-AHEAD in the gear menu and your DAW compensates, so fast speeds work from beat one.