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Re: TC Electronics D-TWO



If you send the D2 a tempo thru midi it will respond
to tempo changes while in rhythm mode.  That has been
my experience at least.  Let me know if you get it to
loop properly.  I can't.  nevertheless, I'm glad I
bought mine.  It has the cleanest, most accurate delay
I've ever used.  
Dan Sumner
--- Dpcoffin@aol.com wrote:
> I've had about a week with a D-2 and it is
> impressive, but  not all that easy 
> to get control of. OF course, it sounds wonderful,
> in the tc style, and the 
> advertised features work quite easily: You can tap
> in a distinct rhythm 
> pattern, select an exact number of repeats, up to
> 10,  and fine tune the 
> ducking feature without much of a struggle. But for
> looping it's a bit more 
> complex. You can set up a tip-ring footswitch pair
> to tap tempo and bypass, 
> and the bypass can be set to work like a hold button
> if you're at 100% 
> feedback. But what I prefer for looping with a delay
> line is to have a pair 
> of control pedals, one  assigned to input level and
> one to feedback, and to 
> do this, as far as I can tell so far (and I haven't
> actually got it working 
> yet), I'll have to add a dedicated stereo volume
> pedal in front, and use a 
> configurable MIDI foot controller on which I can set
> up a cv pedal to CC 
> 50...this # can't be reset on the D-2. There's a
> list of maybe 25-30 control 
> destinations, each with a fixed controller #, so I'm
> in for a long session on 
> the floor reassigning all the already-used switches
> and pedals on my FC-200 
> and their destination #s on my other gear so the
> pedals don't do anything to 
> the D-2 when aimed at something else.
> The Rhythm feature is cool, but has some quirks that
> surprise me: It's not a 
> cross-feed delay like the rhythm feature on my
> current looper and favorite 
> delay line, the Korg DL8000R, so it seems to not
> repeat  the very first 
> iteration of the pattern exactly, takes one loop to
> settle in...or so it 
> seems so far; I'll have to study this more.... Also,
> I'd expect a rhythm 
> pattern to follow a newly tapped tempo, but as soon
> as you touch the tap 
> tempo footswitch to change that, the unit switches
> out of Rhythm mode into 
> straight delay. If you want to speed up or slow down
> an existing pattern, you 
> have to retap it in, or dial in a new global BPM
> from the front. I may 
> discover that I can do this with MIDI foot control,
> but the normally very 
> knowledgeable folks in tc's tech-support area don't
> seem to know this puppy 
> well enough yet to tell me how, and it ain't in the
> manual.
> Noentheless, the D-2 is an inspiring tool, lots of
> fun right out of the box. 
> I'll letya know when I get all the pieces together
> whether it does exactly 
> what I want...like the now-discontinued DL8000R,
> which I highly recommend 
> keeping an eye out for. It seems obvious to me that
> tc checked this piece out 
> thoroughly when designing the D-2. So far I'm not
> sure it's clearly superior. 
> I expect it to be, but, like I said, I haven't got
> it working yet!
> David Coffin
> 


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