Re: Controlling Repeater by MIDI... a BUG?

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

hey,

Yeah, I think if I knew about these "features" before purchasing the 
Repeater,
I would have probably have gone with an echoplex.  I *REALLY* need a looper
that's responsive in a live situation.  It's probably too late to exchange 
it,
so here I am.  I does do some really amazing stuff, and is great in a 
studio
environment.  As a guitarist, it often feels awkward to use.  In my 
opinion, if
you've got to do two steps to access a function (live), it's not 
accessible.

Could be that I'm expecting it to behave like my JamMan, and it plain and
simply does not.  Perhaps I'll start finding new ways to loop with this 
baby,
and grow used to it.  Electrix folk seem to have disappeared from this 
list.
They've gone silent from their forum as well.  It's a bit frustrating, but
expected.  I didn't think that level of attention could go on too long.

Going into a new loop while in record doesn't seem like a lot to ask (it 
does
this on the first loop, eh?), probably something that could be fixed via
software, but I'm totally speculating as Electrix has made no mention of 
future
features, only that it intends to fix the MIDI synch and Loop Point Assist
bugs.

Oh, and by the way, if I'm wrong about cueing a new loop and going into 
record,
can someone (if there's anyone still on this list) explain it to me
sloooooooly?  Dave Torn mentioned it was easily done, but upon following 
his
instructions it did not work at all.

Thanks,

Mark Sottilaro

>
>
> Sadly this is holding me back from buying a Repeater. Like Mark S. I 
>hope it
> will be fixed with a software upgrade. I really love the sound you can 
>get
> with the Repeater when taking out all four tracks separately to a mixer 
>and
> adding reverb etc. And one really cool trick I found out is setting a 
>track
> to some pitch change and then sending the sound back from the mixer to be
> overdubbed on that same Repeater track. For each loop it will then add a
> harmony to the evolving texture.
>
> Regards
>
> Per Boysen