Repeater vs EDP plus a little philosophy...

["Mike Biffle" <Mbiffle@svg.com>]

Please take the mudslinging offline Italo...

Just a few opinions about looper hardware.

I've used the JamMan, JamMan w/Bob Sellon mods, EDP, Line6 DL4 and had the 
opportunity to test drive the Boomerang and Perille's DJRND2. I'm a fairly 
long term delay abuser and looper.

My thought is this...

The Repeater seems to most closely follow the architecture of Bob Sellon's 
ideal JamMan and in fact directly uses his "4 track" looping, panning and 
volume scheme. It looks like they've added the bonuses of a nice user i/f 
as well as their speciality of time stretch / pitch shift features as well 
as STOREABLE LOOPS and VERY LONG LOOPING TIME. 

All of these imply the potential for this to be a very desirable and 
powerful box and I'm certainly interested in it's features at a fairly 
nice price point.

I'd go on to add though that I've rarely EVER lived with just one loop 
box. I've always had a dedicated looper such as JamMan or EDP as well as 
other delays for "cloud looping" or shorter sample / hold style looping, 
and passing loops back and forth between loopers.

The EDP's s/w adds DEEP functionality which no other looper has at this 
point and probably will not in the near future. It's DIFFERENT in the way 
it allows you to compose, overlay, delete, insert and multiply musical 
passages. NOTHING does what it does. Admittedly Gibson has had many 
setbacks in delivering seamless and prompt availability and support to 
this GREAT PRODUCT.

I'd add that I'm not a champion of the EDP... I'm totally stoked the 
Repeater is coming and will maybe get one to COMPLIMENT what I can do with 
the EDP. These two loopers might actually be great FRIENDS to cavort 
musically with... Why is there so much ridiculous dickering about who's a 
fucking engineer, who's musical etc? We ALL have tech requirements, AND we 
all have musical, spiritual issuses which inform our art / craft as well. 
Such mutual exclusion only leads to a form of musical fundamentalism where 
everyone besides yourself is WRONG. Please drop these petty arguments and 
realize that at any particular time in our community here, we might have 
discussions of ANY of these aspects and it's all part of our concerns 
vis-a-vis looping.

Once again. Thanks Kim for your kind, ongoing admin of our large looping 
community. I appreciate your attempts to inform us technically about a 
deep and complicated product in the face of childish and emotional attacks 
on your reputation. Good luck!

Sincerely,
-Miko Biffle