A looper on your wrist

Key Takeaways

TimeLoop is a looper app for your Apple Watch.

And its all on your wrist.

But there are plenty more weird and wonderful music apps for the Apple Watch.

The TimeLoop looper app on an Apple Watch.

TimeLoop

“But I imagine people using it for vocal improvisations, practicing scales, and chord progressions.”

Loops

TimeLoop isnt Marshalls first music app.

And theres more to come.

The Melody Box app on Apple Watch.

Melody Box

But it also can be used to make music.

Unfortunately, we havent yet found a theremin app for the watch.

Perhapsthe metronomeis the most useful of all wrist-mounted utilities.

This category is so useful that there actually are standalone wrist-mounted metronomes available.

TheSoundbrenner Pulse, for example, uses haptic taps to keep you in time.

Another neat music-creation app isRayan Armans MelodyBox, a kind of wrist-mounted groovebox.

You lay down the tune just by tapping on the screen.

You might not put together a full song, but its a fantastic way to quickly record some inspiration.

Then again, nobody expected anyone towrite an entire novel on their iPhone.

The tools just arent available.

Perhaps thats down to a paranoia about battery life on such a tiny equipment.

Or perhaps its just that Apple hasn’t yet gotten around to making these tools available.

“Maybe that’s why we’re not seeing many watch music apps right now.

Let’s hope Apple adds them one day.”