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Looperlative compared to laptop...
>>I have high hopes for this unit. The only reason I wouldn't see him
selling many hundreds of units over a few years is that people might
just decide to go for a computer and be done with it (and get all the
other stuff too). But if this works as advertised, it'll beat a
computer hollow for this one specific purpose...<<<
For me, it already beats a laptop - I just haven't found a laptop
setup that responds in a way I want it to, one that i'm confident
won't glitch on me, one where I don't have to look at the screen
(everyone has their foibles, and one of mine is that I can't be doing
live music while faffing about with the computer itself...)
Kim once commented that for him, the interest in the Echoplex was all
about the interface - that's why he wasn't interested in developing a
software version. That makes perfect sense to me. I'd rather use a
stack of EDPs than a laptop. But for the way I play, the looperlative
does pretty much everything I was using my multiple EDPs for with a
few additions, and it does it in a more stable way than any computer
set up I've tried.
Someone commented that 'the looperlative will be cool when each
channel does everything an EDP can do' - for you maybe that's true.
To me, it's BS. There are loads of things the EDP does that the
looperlative won't do for a long time - very specific development
ideas that came from the combined wisdom of Kim and Matthias and the
others who had input - Andy B, Andre etc - there are things that just
work great with the architecture of the box, the brother sync
feature, the specific way it multiplies, and a lot of the granular
stuff.
A lot of these ideas may inspire looperlative developments - that's
all down to what people request and what Bob is able to implement,
and anyone building a looper would be a total fool not to look at the
feature set of the Echoplex for inspiration - the current software
loopers are pretty much exact copies of the Echoplex feature set -
but the LP1 already has a character of its own, it has a different
architecture, a different hardware model and a whole load of
potential features that the Echoplex couldn't do because of its
specific hardware constraints.
It's all good,
Steve
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