Loopy Pro x Michael Tyson | Reverse Artist Spotlight

By popular demand, in this conversation one-woman band Inby flips Artist Spotlight thing around and interviews about own journey. We cover childhood in hills of Melbourne Australia, falling in love with coding on Apple 2 as kid, and how that “special interest” never really stopped. We talk about early days building software, studying computer science, and almost, almost finishing PhD before trading academia for life on the road in motorhome across Europe with wife. We share stories about first app “The Cartographer,” how Google killed its API overnight, and how that led Michael to take another crack at old looping app experiment. We dive into how Loopy evolved from hack inspired by Imogen Heap, to Loopy HD and then to Audiobus, software that turned iOS into real music platform, and how Apple invited to WWDC to politely tell Michael they&closed off system was using. Gulp. We also talk about long, public gestation of Loopy Pro: building action system that could handle everyone’s requests, dealing with patent scare that made Michael develop in private, and reality of 7 years of solo dev work in midst of parenting. Michael describe slightly embarrassing low-prep, “output-only” work style, love of DSP challenges like auto-loop detection, and how Edward and beta team help keep app stable for live shows. And finally we get personal: parenting, homeschooling our autistic kiddo, splitting parenting days 50/50 with Michael wife, impact on productivity, living like hermit in cabin...