http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2006/01/28/looping/ Electronic music news, synthesizers, reviews and more! Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2006/01/28/looping/#comment-58472 synthhead Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:22:06 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2006/01/28/looping/#comment-58472 And they call it feature laded! And they call it feature laded!

]]> http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2006/01/28/looping/#comment-58459 Brian Tavares Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:09:09 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2006/01/28/looping/#comment-58459 I purchased the Rc 50 specifically to sync this machine to another Rc 50 and a keyboard. Roland does know about the problem and is supposedly working on a fix. There are two main problems that I can see with this unit. One is that the Rc 50 does not like to be a slave in a midi chain, only the master. Some times the loops between two RC 50's will stay in sync no problem other times they will slowly drift apart. This for me is a big problem. This is why I bought this looper in the first place. The second problem is that the Rc 50 can only accept certain CC messages from other midi devices. I wanted to be able to walk around to other instruments and be able to start and stop the looper remotely. This you can do. What I can't do is RECORD from a ctl pedal or midi control pedal. This is another big pain in the a**. You can only record a loop from the pedal. I don't want to have to drag the pedal to the other instruments or have a bunch of instruments right next to each other. If you plan on using this by yourself it is the best pedal to date. Having three phrases is absolutely great. Also having multiple outputs makes routing options very nice. If you try to use this as a slave prepare to be disappointed. Hopefully Roland will have a patch on their web site soon to fix this problem. Until then I will be looking at the Gibson echoplex Pro. I purchased the Rc 50 specifically to sync this machine to another Rc 50 and a keyboard. Roland does know about the problem and is supposedly working on a fix. There are two main problems that I can see with this unit. One is that the Rc 50 does not like to be a slave in a midi chain, only the master. Some times the loops between two RC 50’s will stay in sync no problem other times they will slowly drift apart. This for me is a big problem. This is why I bought this looper in the first place. The second problem is that the Rc 50 can only accept certain CC messages from other midi devices. I wanted to be able to walk around to other instruments and be able to start and stop the looper remotely. This you can do. What I can’t do is RECORD from a ctl pedal or midi control pedal. This is another big pain in the a**. You can only record a loop from the pedal. I don’t want to have to drag the pedal to the other instruments or have a bunch of instruments right next to each other. If you plan on using this by yourself it is the best pedal to date. Having three phrases is absolutely great. Also having multiple outputs makes routing options very nice. If you try to use this as a slave prepare to be disappointed. Hopefully Roland will have a patch on their web site soon to fix this problem. Until then I will be looking at the Gibson echoplex Pro.

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