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Re: Re: TC Electronics D-TWO



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
> > 
> 
> 
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