Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
My sincere thanks to all for the input thus far. Kim is right: I had thought about the CD player solution, but that would involve using my hands too much. What I like about the Line 6 and Boss loopers is that both hands can stay on the fretless bass and the feet operate the looper. Furthermore, it seems intuitively that a CD player would be harder to quickly change the number of times the loops would be played (I guess "last-minute arranging" is a good term for that?). A sequencer would, I believe, solve that sort of thing. From the hype, these Yamaha/Korg/Boss "groove boxes" are designed to loop samples. This seems to be what I desire most. My big concern is memory, followed by editing capabilities (how to "massage" each loop to be stored so that it sounds like the original loop produced in the Line 6 or Boss loopers.) But from what y'all are saying, it sounds like I need to find out more about the Repeater, because if I'm understanding it correctly, it seems to be a looper with a big-ass memory (with the 128 meg storage card), providing the capability to create loops on that unit in the first place, then store and recall the loops for later use. If what Kim says is correct about the half-second pause, however, the Repeater would be less appealing. From the "Tools of the Trade" section of the LD home site, there seem to be pros and cons that I need to better understand. Thus, more homework is in order. This leaves me with one question. . . .I really am not very elctronic/computer savvy: Is 128 megs on one machine the same thing as 128 megs on another, in terms of length of storage time at a given sampling rate? For example, the Boss SP505 can take a 128 meg card. Would that hold roughly the same length of sampling/looping time as the Repeater with 128 meg card? Thanks again. Michael >At 10:03 AM 4/10/2002, you wrote: >>Or maybe his reasoning is the ability to select and start loops >>quickly, without a pause, without changing media. If so, the Repeater >>would rectify that. It'd also add the ability to change the tempo & >>pitch of the saved loops on the fly. > >Unlike a sampler, when you trigger loops on the Repeater there is >about a half second pause before it plays the loop. An actual >sampler is a better choice if you want to be triggering different >prerecorded loops live from midi or a sequencer. I think all the >ones Michael mentioned have the same tempo and pitch change features >for loops that Repeater has. > >Also, he said he wanted a sequencer built in, which neither a cd >player nor the repeater have. > > >kim > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael S. Yoder, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies Texas A&M International University Department of Social Sciences 5201 University Blvd. Laredo, TX 78041 (956) 326-2634 FAX (956) 326-2459 http://www.tamiu.edu/~myoder/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=