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New Yamaha looping/delay device



I know it was mentioned previously by someone else, but here's another link
to Yamaha's new delay unit
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM02/Content/Yamaha/PR/UD-Stomp.html
that was introduced at NAMM.  Based on the 4 footswitches, and relative
simplicity of the control layout, I was quick to assume this was Yamaha's
answer to the Line6 DL4.  However after just having read the manual
available at www.yamahaguitars.com  I realize that for better or worse, 
this
is one complex box.  Definitely not the plug-in-and-play device that the 
DL4
is.  The manual is a very dry read, and after having been through it a
couple of times I'm still trying to get my head around it.  And this is
after having spent 10 years with a TC 2290.  I suppose for those just
looking for a "DL4 with user presets and MIDI", this will be a
disappointingly user-unfriendly device.  For those looking for lots of
tweaking and knob-twiddling potential, I suppose this box will be of 
serious
interest.  Either way, there seem to be some interesting concepts at work.
I wish it was a little more intuitive though.  Anybody else looked at this
thing?