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499 at guitar center --- magicicada@mindspring.com wrote: > How much is A D2? > Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com wrote: > > If you send the D2 a tempo thru midi it will > respondto 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 > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from > anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/