Re: BOSS RC-50 users on the list

["Johnfloridis.com" <john@johnfloridis.com>]

Maybe this has been covered already, but I was surprised to learn today while trying out the  rc 30 that the two tracks or "phrases" cannot be different lengths. As in a one bar muted guitar strings rhythm on one track and a four bar chord progression on the other. 

Am I missing something here?

John Floridis

509-290-0934

john@johnfloridis.com

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On May 14, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Petri Lahtinen <kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Louie!

I bought the RC-30 and its really good.
Silent switches, two tracks, the extra footswitch is small and fitted my pedalboard well.
(FS-6) and with it you can do everything with feet. Well, not start the rhythms, I mean the unit's own drum machine, that is.

I dont do ABC or any other song forms nowadays, so I dont mind the undo's 2 sec thing.

I'm really pleased with it, it surely fills my small needs as a looping device.

-Petri-

2011/4/27 Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>

Hi Petri,
how funny that im doing the same thing!
You arer absolutely right,that software is anoying,im preparing for a
gig this saturday and it took me almost an hour to get some samples
transfered to the Digitech from their flimsy software,there is a new
firmware version which i installed prior to working with it,i dont
know what that is meant for,i started importing wav files and in the
middle of working it crashed bad and lost it all, so i had to restart
again.Prior to that i was rehearsing with it and as i was scrolling
through the samples the digitech froze and cound not get it to do
anything so i reboot it and found out i had lost every other sample in
a slot,luckly i had made a jam list backup so i retransfered all the
files.
what i do like about the digitech is the easy of scrolling through the
samples,but that switch click is so loud that it gets recorded
everytime i loop anything(i have my mic going into the loops as well)
I dont know why they replaced the old switches,they seem a lot
quieter, think the Boss-RC30 will be better in that department.
oh dont waste your time trying to call them or suggest
improvements,their support is nada!
Im also getting the RC-30 perhaps today or tomorrow to try out,im just
using this for small pedalboard type of bar gigs and no racks,the
RC-30 has an essential feature for me like the independent tracks,is
too bad they didnt assign the undo/redo with the footswitch like the
Digitech has,you still have to step on it 2 seconds impractical if u
want ot do A-B arrangments grrr!
oh well lets see if it beats the Digi
cheers
Luis

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Petri Lahtinen
<kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi and thanks to everybody for your responses!
>
> BUT it seems that RC-50 is not available here in Finland, anymore.
>
> The Roland headquarters is Denmark that supply gear to Nordic countries had
> replied to my store, that they dont have any RC-50's there.
> The chain of stores I use here in Finland, doesnt have not one unit here. So
> will it become a discontinued product that gets replaced by the new RC-30...
> who knows...?
>
> SO I'm getting the new RC-30 for test drive next week.
>
> Looking at the manual, it seems pretty straightforward unit. Need extra
> footswitch, which is always annoying.
> Probably nobody on the list doesnt have one of those, cause its so new unit?
> Think it was 2011 January when the first units shipped.
>
> -Petri-
>
> 2011/4/26 Victor Eijkhout <victor@eijkhout.net>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Petri Lahtinen wrote:
>>
>> > Were there RC-50 users on the list?
>>
>> Check. Just bought it a month ago so I'm still learning. Fun toy though.
>>
>> Victor.
>>
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