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If you want to sell your LP1 i'll take it! On 5/2/06, mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- Claude Voit <c.voit@vtx.ch> wrote: > > > having followed the LP1 forum for a while, I'm a > > little bothered with the > > "throw in your ideas, boys" way of develloping a > > software. > > Boy howdy, Claude!! At first I thought, "what a great > idea, go to the people!" and then reality set in. > People are self absorbed jerks! I'm a self absorbed > jerk! I'm shocked that Bob's not gone crazy by this > point. I can't wait for the "let's change the logo > thread!" ;) > > I can't help but feel that in some ways, maybe due to > his design by customer input, that I bought a beta > product. The manual is poor (many features are barely > mentioned, let alone explained, if it wasn't for Steve > Lawson on the forum I probably would have returned the > LP-1), it's got outputs that aren't implemented in any > way and did ship with a fair amount of bugs. (many > have already been found and fixed) Was a night of my > life wasted because v 1.1 refered to midi channels as > 0-15? Yes it was. Another gone because the midi > clock sync didn't work? Yeah, that too. Another gone > because stopped tracks don't restart synced to the > clock... > > Also, because of it's very open yet unfinished form > I'm one of those frustrated owners. It's a tweak away > from being my dream looper. (there's curently no way > to use the midi tracks as separate loops when synced > to a midi clock and have them operate like the EDP or > the Repeater does, toggling betwen them) Judging from > what I read on the forum you could operate it that > way. > > If this was a product from a company like Roland or > Digitech, it would have been returned. Mostly when > those companies release a product it is what it is. > I'd have said, "Oh, this product does't operate like I > want it to. Bye bye." But now I have a product that > *may* change into what I want. This is kind of odd, > as rather than digging into if for what it is (a very > cool multi track looper), I can't help but think of > what it isn't and might be. LOOP TEASE! > > Will my tweak come? I don't know. I've put in > several requests but never got a "oh that's slated in > the next release" or "no, that's not doable at this > time" reply. The reply was "When it comes to multiple > tracks, especially when combined with MIDI sync, we > will need to spend more time defining how you want the > software to work. The software is still young and I'd > be happy to make changes to make operate in a useable > fashion." How much time? Do I be patient? I don't > develop hardware/software loopers so I have no idea > what it takes in terms of time to implement features. > Maybe my request isn't worth Bob's time as I'm one of > few that even care about this. > > As it stands now it's mostly useless to me *but I > couldn't know that based on prerelease information* > It's not even in my signal chain. I know I'm ranting > (I'm a good ranter, eh?) but $1200 left my bank acount > on something that's sitting on a shelf. Do I wait? > How long? Bob has been amazing and patient, but part > of me wishs that a bit more time was spent in initial > conception before it was released. If I knew that > this *is* the way the LP-1 is going to be for a long > time, I would have passed. > > I'm not saying the LP-1 isn't GREAT. It is a great > looper. In some ways it's the best. If you're not a > midi clock looper, this may indeed be your box. If > you don't care about cuing a new loop to start > recording at the end of the current loop AND then > going back and finding the first loop still perfectly > synced to your drum machine, this may be your looper. > If you want 8 stereo channels of midi synced (or not) > loops that don't all have to be the same length, this > may be your looper. > > Of course Bob is on this list so he's probably going > to read this. Hi Bob! Bob, I like you. I like the > Looperlative. I could not have done anything like > this at all. I have much respect for your hard work > and effort. Your ability to implement all our crazy > feature requests in a short time has been amazing. > I'd have told me to fuck off a long time ago. In a > sense I wish you would. Then I could say, "is the > LP-1 worth owning in it's current form?" and be done > with it. Like it is it's an itch in my brain that I > just can't scratch. > > Mark > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > >