About Yalaloop

What Yalaloop is

Yalaloop is a music practice and transcription app for slowing down, looping, and pitch-shifting any track. You bring your own audio files — songs, lessons, recordings of your teacher — and Yalaloop gives you the tools to pull them apart at your own pace.

You can drill the chorus at 60% and the solo at 80% in the same session. You can mark passages, name them, and come back to the same loops with the same settings every time you open the file. Speed and pitch are independent: slow audio down without changing the key, or transpose to match a different tuning.

The problem I built it for

I started building Yalaloop while learning guitar. I was constantly editing audio files to create slowed-down loops — pulling a phrase out, dropping the tempo, looping it for repeated practice — and ending up with a folder of half-named clips I could never find again. And none of them were on my phone when I showed up to a lesson.

That’s the gap Yalaloop tries to close. Generic media players let you scrub and pause, but they don’t remember where you wanted to loop, what tempo you set, or which markers you placed. Yalaloop keeps all of that per track, syncs it to every device you log in on, and gives you sample-accurate looping with a short crossfade so the seam doesn’t click.

I built it because I needed it. I use it every day.

More on how I actually use Yalaloop for guitar practice — concrete workflows, the songs I drilled, the tools alongside it.

What Yalaloop does

Per-loop speed and pitch settings, saved with each loop
Multiple named loops per track, plus markers
Sample-accurate, click-free looping
Slow down without changing pitch; pitch-shift independently
A library that remembers — re-open a track and your work is there
One purchase covers iOS and Android (Mac and Windows coming)

What it isn’t

Yalaloop is deliberately focused. A few things it doesn’t try to be:

A DAW or audio editor. Yalaloop plays your audio; it doesn’t record, mix, or export modified versions.
A music streaming service. You bring your own audio files. Yalaloop doesn’t host or distribute music.
A chord-detection or notation tool. Yalaloop doesn’t analyse the audio to write tabs or chord charts.
A stem-splitter (today). Stem splitting may arrive later via a paid integration; it’s not what Yalaloop is built around.

Who built it

I’m Michiel van Vlaardingen, a developer from the Netherlands who plays guitar.

Yalaloop is the first app released under Melody Matrix, a broader project I’m building around music practice — curating the best online resources for guitar players and developing tools that fit alongside them. Yalaloop covers the slow-down-and-loop workflow; the wider toolkit is still to come. Both ship under MovingLabs.

Philosophy

A few principles drive the choices in Yalaloop:

Pay once, use everywhere. No subscription, no platform lock-in. Buy on one device, use on all of them.
Free forever, no time limits. The free tier isn’t a trial — practice for as long as you want without a countdown or a 25%-track cap.
Your work follows you. Loops, markers, and per-loop settings sync between your devices, so the lesson you prepared on your laptop is on your phone when you walk into the studio.
Respect for practice time. The fewer steps between “I want to loop this passage” and actually looping it, the more you’ll practice.

The fewer steps between wanting to loop and actually looping, the more you'll practice.

Get in touch

Yalaloop gets better when people tell me what’s broken, confusing, or missing. I read every email.

Bug reports, feature requests, “I tried to do X and got stuck” — all welcome at help@movinglabs.com. For bug reports, please mention your platform (iPhone, iPad, or Android). FAQs are on the Support page.

Part of the Melody Matrix ecosystem.