The Repeater. Buy it for the loops, love it for it's quirks

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I'm still having a problem with the "it don't loop" posts.  It do, it do.  
As a
matter of fact, it do really well.  If you've been using a JamMan for the 
last
ten years, you will not be sorry you bought a Repeater.  It's an amazingly
powerful tool, and while the LPA (Loop Point Assist) makes MIDI synch not 
work
well, if you use my workaround it does synch to MIDI really well.  Once 
they fix
the LPA issue (you'll no longer have to record your silent loop for good 
MIDI
synch), and the MIDI out issue, this thing will really shine.  If not 
being able
to set a loop out point, but stay in an overdub is the trade off for 
Stereo,
time stretch and pitch shifting (which it does really well) and non 
volatile
memory, I think I accept that.

If there are people waiting for the "dust to clear" I say go and pick on of
these babies up.  Most all the issues are 1.0 gotchas.  What modern digital
device doesn't have a few?

Mark Sottilaro
(former CEO of Electros inc. manufacturers of the Againinator)

Brett Maraldo wrote:

> yeah! i thought so too! :) very amusing. on the other hand, and i know 
>you
> know this now damon, but the repeater is sort of broken at this point. 
>i'm
> sure you guys will get it all fixed up though. in the meantime we are all
> doing the best we can with it.
>
> plexus
>
> At 05:24 PM 9/13/2001, you wrote:
> >Wow! Now this one is harsh.
> >
> > >I understand you're dealing with four tracks and stereo and pitch and 
>and
> > >and, well what good is all that if it doesn't do something as simple 
>as
> > >record and play back what you are intending to loop?
> > >I've got a RPTR, thankfully I didn't buy it for its looping 
>capabilities
> >(to
> > >me that was (is) an unkown, as it doesn't loop, it records what you 
>do and
> > >then some which makes it impossibly hard to make a sharp loop from the
> > >outset). I bought the RPTR cause everything said it was good at 
>mashing up
> > >loops and it does that very very well, so Bravo and continued success 
>on
> > >that end.
> >
> >
> >Respect,
> >
> >Damon Langlois
> >Creative Director
> >Electrix
> >Tel (250) 544-4091 Fax (250) 544-4100
> >http://www.electrixpro.com