Re: RE: JamMan Rumors

["Hogan, Greg" <GHogan@lexicon.com>]

In response to me saying this:
><<Yes, it is true that we are no longer making the JAMMAN.  There may be
>limited availability at some stores.  We do not currently have any plans 
>to
>release another dedicated looper.
>
>Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything that 
>I
>can do for you.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Greg Hogan
>Lexicon Customer Service
>Phone 617-280-0372
>FAX 617-280-0499>>
>

David T. asks:"Is this really the wisest move on the part of Lexicon? I've 
had 4 friends
in my area, not exactly a hotbed of musical activity, pick up JamBoys or
Echoplexi in the last 6 months. I also see a lot more interest on the net
and in the press for looping devices, and not just on this list. And I see
a lot more musicians using them onstage in the last year. Maybe loopers are
devices that needed some time for the public to really get interested in
them, and that's starting to happen now. Is there any possibility on
Lexicon re-thinking this decision?"

It seems to me that interest in JAMMAN has peaked only after we stopped 
shipping them and the big instrument suppliers offered them at heavily 
discount prices.  JAMMAN would probably require a new design to be re 
released as some of the parts that were available at the time that  the 
JAMMAN was designed are no longer available in quantities sufficient for 
manufacturing.  I would say that it is not very likely that we will come 
out 
with another dedicated looping device in the near future.  JAMMAN was very 
successful in the emotional response that we got from most people who 
purchased it, however the volume of product that was actually sold was not 
sufficient enough as to elicit a very warm feeling from the people who 
make 
the decisions about what we make and what we do not make.

David T also stated "How exactly is the MPX expandable? I use an LXP-5 for 
looping all the time,
I love the idea of all the pitch/reverb processing after the loop. If the
MPX could be expanded to do long loops, it could be a killer box. But
frankly, I'm skeptical that Lexicon would leave us this possibility..."

The MPX1 is expandable via software.  I am not aware of any plans to offer 
expanded delay memory.  It certainly will be more entertaining as a looper 
than the LXP5.

Best regards,

Greg Hogan
Lexicon Customer Service
Phone 617-280-0372
FAX 617-280-0499
email:ghogan@lexicon.com