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Hey Stuart, that's soooo cool. Despite some quirks and glitches I also love my Repeater. You compared it to the EDP and I wanted to say in the EDP's defense (and I am just learning about his wonderful instrument): the two units do really different things. I wish you could have seen the awesome demonstration that Andre La Fosse did with his EDP (and the awesome demo that Bill Walker did with his REPEATER) at the Y2K2 Loopfestival this summer. The best way I can describe the differences between the two equally cool boxes is that the REPEATER is like Western Harmony with four mono or two stereo/tuneable loops being equivalent to harmonic polyphony. The EDP (and please forgive me adept ones: I"m a brand newbie with this instrument) is more like how the Indians have taken modal single lines to the furthest reaches of creativity. The EDP and the brilliant LOOP 4 software allows for incredible editing of individual mono loops to a degree rivaled by NO OTHER LOOPER ON THE MARKET. Andre created loops, replaced them, then triggered them from an old Roland drum machine. He also used one function that has me fascinated: quantize replace.......where he started out with a quirky and jagged loop that was, nonetheless had a chordal/tonal center and then replaced individual quantized 8th note sections of it until the loop sounded like a really funky but abstract ostinato line. What was so hip was that it seemed like the closer he got to replacing all of the loops the more abstract the loop got (yet still tonally center) until all of a sudden at the last instant, it became this very, very hip funky 8th note loop. It was all I had to restrain myself not to jump on stage, grab a mic and start beat-boxing to what he was doing.........very, very cool. He also did some cool 'jungle-esque' tricks like recording several short loops and then retriggering them in different orders from the drum pads of his old defunct Roland drum machine. I was amazed at how fluid and 'not canned' the whole thing was. He is my guru now.......LOL. I guess what I am saying, Stuart is, keep saving your money!!! Someone as creative as you should own both of these stellar boxes because they do equally hip, but very different things to looping music. yours, Rick Walker (loop.pool)