Re: Basic RC-50 Question

[Florian Anwander <fanwander@mnet-online.de>]

Hi Jeff

> Can the RC-50 stop/start canned blips, bleeps, and other assorted loops 
> that I can trigger via MIDI from my controller? 
As far as I remember the MIDI-implementation right: Yes, you can do 
this. Check it at

But be aware, that creating preprocessed loops for the RC-50 (means: 
make the sample somewhere else and transfer it to the RC-50) is a pain 
in in the a**. You have to create the sample with the exact byte length 
required for the wanted tempo, and you have to predefine the tempo when 
creating the patch. It is not possible to insert a loop of your own 
length and adopt it to an existing tempo. It is also not possible to 
change the tempo afterwards without a major loss in sound quality.

I owned the RC50 for three month: to my experience the RC-50 is fine if 
you use it as a standalone unit, but it is close to unusable, if you 
want to integrate it in external  sample / tempo environment (at least 
unusable in comparison with other loopers).

Florian