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Hi, I just was surprised reading about what a nice looper comes as part of the guitar amp Fractal Audio Systems Axe Fx II. See for yourself in the manual quote below: The Axe-Fx has a full-featured Looper which allows you to create multi-layered performances in real time. The maximum loop time varies from 15 to 60 seconds, depending on your choices for mono/stereo/undo. Looper functions can be operated from the Axe-Fx front panel, or remotely via MIDI. Looper CC# assignments appear on the CONTROL page of the I/O menu Looper Basic Controls RECORD – When you press RECORD, the Looper starts recording (if you hadn’t guessed as much we have to wonder...) Here’s something that’s not as obvious: press record again to stop recording and instantly start playback. This prevents you needing to hunt around for more than one footswitch to start a loop. If the record length reaches the maximum allowed for the current mode, recording will end and playback will stop automatically. PLAY – This switch has two functions: use it to stop recording and begin playback, or use it to instantly stop playback that is already rolling. A momentary switch can be assigned to PLAY for stutter effects. ONCE – Toggles “auto-stop at loop-end,” so that if playback is running, the looper will stop automatically when it reaches the end of the loop. If playback is already stopped, ONCE will start playback, play through the loop and then stop. You cannot go directly from RECORD to ONCE. STACK – Overdubs audio on an existing loop. Pressing it again stops the addition but playback continues. Existing audio is faded every time through the loop based on the setting of the DUB MIX parameter on the Looper’s MIX page. UNDO – This removes the most recently recorded overdub. Undo removes a given “take,” defined as everything between when you pressed STACK to start overdub recording and when you turned it off. REV – Pressing this reverses the direction of the Looper. Playback and STACK recording are supported. HALF – Slows the Looper’s speed to half. Playback and normal or overdub recording are supported at half speed. For double speed playback, record in half speed and then switch back to normal. Note: Halving the speed slightly reduces high-end frequency response. Each Axe-Fx II preset can use one Looper block. Looper Advanced Controls MODE – Selects the Looper mode, determining mono/stereo, looper length, and undo. Whenever you change the mode, the looper memory will be entirely cleared. MONO – Recording and playback are in mono. Maximum loop length is 60 seconds. Undo is not possible. STEREO – Recording and playback are in stereo. Maximum loop length is 30 seconds. Undo is not possible. MONO UNDO – Recording and playback are in mono. Maximum loop length is 30 seconds. Undo works. STEREO UNDO – Recording and playback are in mono. Maximum loop length is 60 seconds. Undo works. QUANT – With quantize enabled, loop length is perfectly set to some whole number of beats) with reference to the pulses of the Axe-Fx GLOBAL TEMPO (see p. 146)). THRSH – The Axe-Fx Looper can start recording automatically when the input exceeds a set level. Turn this feature ON or OFF using this parameter. THRSH LEVEL – This sets the level which must be exceeded at the input of the Looper for recording to start automatically. DUB MIX – Actually located on the Looper’s MIX page, this determines how much layers are reduced when you STACK new layers. If you never want old layers to decay, set this to 100%, but be aware that adding additional layers in this way can result in excessive signal and clipping. Looper Mix Parameters The Looper has a MIX page with LEVEL, BALANCE, and BYPASS MODE parameters. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen