Can I make music offline without an account?

Yes, you can. Loop by Zaweba makes music entirely on your own computer, with no account to create, no cloud and no telemetry. Every loop it ships with, every instrument and every effect runs on your PC, and exports are rendered there too, so it works the same on a train with no signal as it does at home.

That's a deliberate choice rather than a missing feature, and it changes a few things about how you work. Here's what offline means in practice.

What is on your computer already

Loop comes with 210 loops, browsable by genre and by type: drums, bass, chords, lead, FX, vocals and audio. They were generated by Loop's own code and played by its own synth, drum machine and the bundled FluidR3_GM SoundFont, so nothing has to be downloaded to use them. The vocal loops are vocal-like synth and choir sounds without words.

The instruments are local as well. There is a built-in synth with 28 presets, a drum machine with eight kits, a sampler for your own sounds, and the 128 General MIDI instruments plus the GM drum kit from the FluidR3_GM SoundFont, which is MIT-licensed and included.

Saving and exporting on your machine

Songs save as .zloop files wherever you choose. Each one is a ZIP holding the song plus its recordings and samples, so a song is a single file you can copy, back up or move to another computer. Saves are atomic, which means a crash mid-save leaves the old version intact.

Exports render offline in the background, many times faster than real time. You get WAV (16 or 24 bit), MP3 at 320 kbit/s and OGG Vorbis, as well as stems and MIDI files. MP3 and OGG use a copy of FFmpeg that comes with Loop, so there's nothing to fetch from the web.

Why offline is a good thing for music

There's nothing to sign up for, so a new song is a click away, which matters when you have an idea you want to catch quickly. A child or a class can use it without anyone handing over an email address.

Your music stays yours. Recordings of your voice, your own audio loops and half-finished songs never leave your computer unless you send them somewhere yourself. And the loops that come with Loop may be used royalty-free in your own music, which Help > Your music and the loops spells out.

Nothing changes under you either. A program that works offline can't have its loops taken away, and it doesn't stop working if a service closes.

What offline means for you

Backups are your job. Keep your .zloop files and the app's data folder, where My loops lives, somewhere your normal backup covers.

Sharing is by file. Send someone an exported MP3 or WAV to listen to, or the .zloop if they also have Loop and want to carry on working on the song.

Working with the rest of the suite

After an export, Loop can hand the file to other Zaweba apps that also run on your computer. File > Open the last export in Play by Zaweba opens it in the music player, and File > Send the last export to Video by Zaweba sends it to the video editor, ready to sit under a clip.

Loop is free software, so there is nothing to buy or renew. Install it, open it, and the first launch even plays a house starter song so you hear something straight away, all without going online.