Re: D-Two Looper Settings

[RandomLFO@aol.com]

     Hello. Thanks very much for the additional info. For a long time I 
used 
a Digitech RDS 7.6 and I added a Jamman to it later. I really enjoyed 
using 
the RDS 7.6 more than the Jamman. At the time the RDS 7.6 came out it was 
a 
Looping Delay. It worked on the same principal of using 100% feedback to 
infinitely sustain whatever was recorded into it. It did also have an 
infinite repeat button. Does the D2 have one?
When the infinite repeat button was engaged, the input was muted so you 
could 
play over whatever was looping, without adding to the loop. When you 
disengeaged the inifinite repeat button, you were free to add to the loop 
again. 
     Anyway, although the standard has changed a lot for loopers these 
days, 
I still consider the RDS 7.6 a looper, just not a fancy one. So I am 
guessing 
that the D2 can function as a simple looper.
     BTW, if you use a 10 second Delay (mono) does the D2 only output on 
one 
channel?
     Thanks again, Marc

In a message dated 7/15/02 8:06:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pantonio@pacbell.net writes:

> 5 sec stereo; 10 sec mono.  You are right.
>  
>  "Overdubbing" is not quite the right concept with the D-2 b/c it's not
>  really a true looper.  I believe that the feedback rate controls how 
quickly
>  something decays, so if it's at 100% it's like setting the JamMan at 16 
>in
>  echo mode, in which case you can overdub.  So "overdubs" are possible, I
>  guess, and it won't affect sample time.
>  
>  I don't really think of the D2 as having onboard effects, but I guess 
>the
>  chorus, spatial, ping pong options fall in that category....  Oh yeah, 
there
>  are also some basic filters.  Yup, those are effects all right.
>  
>  Using these options does not effect the delay time.
>  
>  This thing doesn't shine as a looper, I don't think.  Mostly, I use it 
>to
>  tap a tempo and syncopate a rhythm in 1/4. or 1/4T or something weird.  
>You
>  can also tap in a rhythm and really mess up a 4/4 drum machine pattern. 
> It
>  is clean and awesome and very easy to program.
>  
>  I also use it with Cubase quite a bit.  B/c you can set things like 
"bypass"
>  to different parameters, I use MIDI to trigger precisely certain 
>parameters
>  or easily sync to clock.  And w/ the S/PDIF I/O, I often track with the 
>D2
>  all digital.
>  
>  I just bought a Control Freak Live, so I'm stoked about controlling 
multiple
>  D2 parameters via knobs rather than menus in a live setting.  Being a
>  "non-musician" music maker, I have spare hands (most times).
>  
>  It really is a great box.  I'm not sure it's a "looper" though