MusoLoop and EasyPerformer both help you perform, but they start from different places. EasyPerformer is a pad-based app for iPhone, iPad and Android that plays the audio, video and lyrics you load for a show. MusoLoop is a browser-based song library for organising that repertoire, then playing it — including backing tracks — without a separate app.
EasyPerformer is built around pads
Each song or track sits on a pad. You import audio or video from the device or from cloud storage, arrange the pads into a setlist, and tap one to play. Lyrics and chords can travel with the track, along with PDFs and images. A MIDI plugin can send commands during a song and take triggers from a foot pedal, so playback can start and stop without touching the screen. Once the files are on the device, the show works offline.
A pad plays one track at a time. A click and a backing mix need to be in that same file, often panned to opposite sides. There is no catalogue of existing songs: you bring your own.
MusoLoop is built around the song
MusoLoop keeps lyrics, chords, audio, video, PDFs and notation together for each song, including Guitar Pro and MusicXML. Collections and setlists group those songs for a gig, a lesson or a rehearsal, and you open them in a browser. Guests and students can view selected songs without their own account.
Backing tracks are separate files on the song: a mixed track, a click, spoken cues, or individual stems. They start together, and the click and cues can go to in-ears while the music goes out front. The same library can take live audience requests, including paid requests.
The biggest difference
EasyPerformer is a simple way to trigger the files for a show from a pad layout. MusoLoop is where those songs live the rest of the time — charts, notation, sharing and requests — with the backing tracks played from the browser.
Which approach fits?
- Choose EasyPerformer when: you want a straightforward pad layout on iOS or Android for audio, video and lyrics, with optional MIDI pedal control.
- Choose MusoLoop when: you want one browser library for charts, notation and backing tracks, and you need to share it with a band, students or an audience.
Plenty of players use a pad app on the night and a song library through the week. The question is whether those jobs live in two places, or on the same song.