repeater = looperlative comparisons

[rabbirabbifive <rabbirabbi5@yahoo.com>]

I offloaded my looperlative at the beginning of this year.  I had a
hunch that development was going to slow to a crawl.  Unfortunately, my
hunch proved correct.  There were features I needed that are in Mobius
but still aren't in the looperlative, and if I'd kept it I'd be very
fustrated at this point.  I also had concerns for its build quality, as
I had to send mine back a few times for repairs.  This is to be
expected with something "bleeding edge", but honestly, I feel more
confident with my laptop onstage, than I ever did with the
looperlative.  Mobius will glitch now and then (clicks in the audio),
but the Looperlative locked up totally just often enough to be rather
unnerving.  Those bugs were fixed, but new bugs kept cropping up, and
there hasn't been a bugfix update in months.  I guess I just lost
confidence in it.    

As for feel, well, I can't comment on the repeater (never had one) but
the looperlative did get sluggish at times, like its midi buffer was
filling up or something...the display is always lagging, but sometimes
the response to midi commands felt lagged as well.  And, the
quantization options are nowhere near as sophisticated as the EDP so
sometimes you have to wait before stuff will happen.  I didn't much
care for that.  The EDP felt better, and Mobius is pretty responsive as
well.
One other issue is, the EDP did a much better job of placing related
commands together on a limited number of buttons via "long presses" and
such.  The looperlative is pretty strictly one function per button so
there IS a lot of bank switching on the midi controller to deal with.

I would advise playing with it yourself to see what you think.  I think
you mentioned that you are coming to California soon...last time I
checked, Analog Haven in Pomona had one.  They seem like nice people. 
If you can get there, call them and let them know when you're coming,
and ask them to take it out of the rack for you and hook up a midi
controller to it, so you can see what it can do.  And give yourself
plenty of time- it's a deep box, and there are a lot of other toys at
that place to distract you. 

  
3. SHOCK HORROR... I was thinking of selling it and some unused SKB
racks
and a Korg synth and working late for a few weeks and getting a
Looperlative
Ta ta!!!
So I downzoned the PDF manual and read... sounds impressive.... no
pitch
shifting (apart from octave right?) so it aint a replacement for
repeater,
but lots of tracks (not sure if I care about that either) interesting
sounding synching stuff, scrambling sounds cool...
BUT>>>>> HOW DOES IT FEEL...MAaaan???
I couldn't help but notice Zoë offloading hers (Hi Zoë! ) why
exactly?? I also worry about the amount of midi pedal fiddling... all
those
tracks, all that hidden away stuff, (some of us are never gonna be as
clever as Per, or as tidy as Claud (saw your racks... bastard!!)) So
will I be forever upping and downing thru banks on my pedals? Or do I
just need 4 really...?
Will people see me playing geetar on stage?
Or will they see me peering into a rack, with a mag-light scolling thru
menus?

Comparisons between Repeater and Looperlative welcomed into my home, of
thier own free will.


      
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