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another drawback that i have encountered (and correct me if i am wrong) is that u cannot trigger really stuttering short loops like u can with the EDP... cheers Luis --- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote: > The short answer is: yes, you can. > > You'll need a MIDI pedal (or controller of whatever > type) for this, there is > no jack for controlling feedback with an expression > pedal. That being said, > about everyone controls the Repeater with a MIDI > floorboard (I use a > FCB1010). > > I never found the 3 or 4 minutes (don't know myself) > limiting. Some (but > only a few) people have a different opinion on this; > you might search the > archives for the looperlative discussion which > happened recently and > included a lengthy side-thread about maximum loop > size. > > The Repeater has a few limitations. Some (like the > maximum loop time) do not > affect that many people in their playing. Others are > more of a problem. To > sum up the biggest drawbacks: > > * maximum loop time limit: you have to decided for > yourself (no problem for > me) > * you can't go into overdub when closing a loop: > This is a drawback for many people (including me). > You can work around this > by first recording an empty loop, closing it, and > then overdubbing into it. > But it's not the same. > * S/N ratio. There are some hardware mods to > improve this. Again, search > the archives > * Its internal MIDI clock is quite unstable. This > is a problem either if > you want to be extremely tight or if you want to > MIDI-sync some delay > effects to it (which causes clicks). Workaround. > Sync the repeater to an > external MIDI clock. > > Then there are things that no other looper can do. > As Mark mentioned, > syncing to a changing MIDI clock is among this. Then > there's the > timestretch/pitch shift feature. I personally enjoy > varispeed very much. > > A pity it's discontinued. > > >"Being able to control this feedback level > (usually with a pedal) > is > >obviously a major boon to loopers. It turns the > loop into a living > >entity, growing and changing over time versus a > static loop with > >overdubs (and perhaps undos)." Please tell me, can > you do this with > repeater ? > >And how dont you find the 3-or4 minutes looping > time as limiting ? > Do you have any other loopers or is the repeater > enough to make those > >greate loops ? > > > www.luis-angulo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com