Press pedal 1 and play: the first take sets the length of the loop. Stack a bass line on track 2 and a melody on track 3, overdub, undo, reverse. Sing or beatbox into your mic, or play the built-in keys and drum pads.
Live looping is the art of building a song alone, one layer at a time. The LP-3 keeps every layer on the beat, down to the sample.
The first take sets the loop. Tracks 2 and 3 then record exactly one turn, wherever you start them, and land on the same grid: a beatbox groove on 1, a bass line on 2, a chorus on 3. Each track keeps its own level and pan, so you mix as you play.
Sing, beatbox or play an instrument into your microphone: the LP-3 asks the browser for the raw signal, with no echo cancellation or noise gate chewing up your sound. No mic? Play the built-in two-octave keyboard or the eight drum pads, with the mouse, a touch screen or your computer keyboard.
Recording and playback run in the audio thread, not in the page, so a busy browser never shifts a layer. The looper also measures the delay of your sound card and moves each overdub back to where you heard it. Turn on Bar sync and the loop closes on the next whole bar of the tempo.
Every overdub can be undone, and undone again to bring it back. Flip a track to play it backwards, or at half speed an octave down. When the loop works, download it as a WAV file and drop it in any audio editor or DAW.
Eight synthesized pads - kick, snare, closed and open hats, clap, two toms and a shaker - give you a beat to loop in seconds. Or switch on the rhythm guide, a metronome or a rock, hip hop, funk or house groove that you hear but that never ends up in the loop.
The keys 1, 2 and 3 work like footswitches, Space starts or stops everything and Backspace undoes the last overdub, so your hands stay on your instrument. The LED ring around each pedal shows where you are in the loop: red while you record, amber in overdub, green while it plays.
Choose Mic, Keys or Pads at the top right. With the mic, wear headphones so the speakers do not leak into the loop.
Press pedal 1 (or the 1 key), play, and press it again: the loop starts at once. With Count-in on, you get one bar of clicks first.
Press pedal 2 to record one turn on track 2, then pedal 3. Press a playing pedal again to overdub on it.
Undo the last overdub, hold a pedal to clear its track, press All to stop or restart everything, then Export WAV.
| Type | Three-track loop station (looper), playable on this page, free |
|---|---|
| Tracks | 3, locked to the loop length set by the first take |
| Pedal cycle | Empty > record > play > overdub > play; hold 0.9 s to clear; Stop and Undo buttons per track |
| Loop length | Free, or rounded to whole bars of the tempo; up to 60 seconds |
| Tempo | 50 to 200 BPM; read from the loop when you record freely, so the guide fits it afterwards |
| Rhythm guide | Metronome, Rock, Hip hop, Funk, House; one-bar count-in |
| Inputs | Microphone (raw, no processing), built-in two-octave keyboard, 8 drum pads (kick, snare, hats, clap, toms, shaker) |
| Per track | Level, pan, reverse, half speed, level meter, LED ring showing the loop position |
| Timing | Sample-accurate engine in an AudioWorklet; round-trip latency compensation with a -60 to +120 ms trim |
| Export | Mixed loop as a 16-bit stereo WAV |
| Keyboard | 1, 2, 3 track pedals; Space all play or stop; Backspace undo; middle letter row plays keys or pads |
| Requirements | A recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari; headphones recommended with the microphone |
A loop station, or looper, records a short phrase and plays it back over and over, while you record more phrases on top. Singers use it to build a whole arrangement with one voice, beatboxers to stack drums, bass and melody, guitarists to play a solo over their own rhythm part. The LP-3 brings the classic three-track floor looper to the browser, with the pedal cycle that live loopers know by heart.
Start with the layer that carries the time, often the drums or a short chord riff, and keep it to one, two or four bars. Press the pedal a hair before the beat rather than after: with Bar sync on, the LP-3 rounds the length for you. Leave room in the middle of the sound for the voice, and use Reverse or half speed on a copy of a layer for an instant texture.
Export the loop as a WAV and keep building in GOONS Studio: the Voice Sampler turns your takes into playable pads, the PT-1 Pitch Tune polishes the vocals, and the drum machines and sequencer share one tempo - free for 7 days, no card required.
Yes. The LP-3 at the top of this page is free, with no account and nothing to install. It runs in your browser with the Web Audio API.
Yes. Pick Mic as the source and allow the microphone when the browser asks. Wear headphones: with speakers, the loop playing back is picked up again by the mic. Turn on Monitor to hear your live voice.
The LP-3 already moves each overdub back by the delay your audio device reports. Bluetooth headphones add more delay than they report: turn the Latency knob up until the new layer sits on the beat, or use wired headphones.
Up to 60 seconds. Tracks 2 and 3 always have the length of the first loop, so every layer stays in time.
Yes. Export WAV downloads the mix of the three tracks, with their levels, pans, reverse and half-speed settings, as a stereo WAV file you can open in any audio editor or DAW.
No. It is an original GOONS design. "Loop station" is used here in its everyday sense of a looper; GOONS is not affiliated with any pedal maker.
The LP-3 is free, with no account. GOONS Studio adds samplers, drum machines and a sequencer that play together - free for 7 days, no card required.
Free on this page, no account. Open the Voice Sampler →