Looper's Delight Archive Top (Search)
Date Index
Thread Index
Author Index
Looper's Delight Home
Mailing List Info

[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Re: BOSS RC-50 users on the list



I'm an RC-50 user, and also have an LP1, but I'm swamped with other
things so I can't fully integrate the LP1 into my show yet.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Louie Angulo
<louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Petri,
> how funny that im doing the same thing!
> You arer absolutely right,that software is anoying,im preparing for a
> gig this saturday and it took me almost an hour to get some samples
> transfered to the Digitech from their flimsy software,there is a new
> firmware version which i installed prior to working with it,i dont
> know what that is meant for,i started importing wav files and in the
> middle of working it crashed bad and lost it all, so i had to restart
> again.Prior to that i was rehearsing with it and as i was scrolling
> through the samples the digitech froze and cound not get it to do
> anything so i reboot it and found out i had lost every other sample in
> a slot,luckly i had made a jam list backup so i retransfered all the
> files.
> what i do like about the digitech is the easy of scrolling through the
> samples,but that switch click is so loud that it gets recorded
> everytime i loop anything(i have my mic going into the loops as well)
> I dont know why they replaced the old switches,they seem a lot
> quieter, think the Boss-RC30 will be better in that department.
> oh dont waste your time trying to call them or suggest
> improvements,their support is nada!
> Im also getting the RC-30 perhaps today or tomorrow to try out,im just
> using this for small pedalboard type of bar gigs and no racks,the
> RC-30 has an essential feature for me like the independent tracks,is
> too bad they didnt assign the undo/redo with the footswitch like the
> Digitech has,you still have to step on it 2 seconds impractical if u
> want ot do A-B arrangments grrr!
> oh well lets see if it beats the Digi
> cheers
> Luis
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Petri Lahtinen
> <kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi and thanks to everybody for your responses!
>>
>> BUT it seems that RC-50 is not available here in Finland, anymore.
>>
>> The Roland headquarters is Denmark that supply gear to Nordic countries 
>had
>> replied to my store, that they dont have any RC-50's there.
>> The chain of stores I use here in Finland, doesnt have not one unit 
>here. So
>> will it become a discontinued product that gets replaced by the new 
>RC-30...
>> who knows...?
>>
>> SO I'm getting the new RC-30 for test drive next week.
>>
>> Looking at the manual, it seems pretty straightforward unit. Need extra
>> footswitch, which is always annoying.
>> Probably nobody on the list doesnt have one of those, cause its so new 
>unit?
>> Think it was 2011 January when the first units shipped.
>>
>> -Petri-
>>
>> 2011/4/26 Victor Eijkhout <victor@eijkhout.net>
>>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Petri Lahtinen wrote:
>>>
>>> > Were there RC-50 users on the list?
>>>
>>> Check. Just bought it a month ago so I'm still learning. Fun toy 
>though.
>>>
>>> Victor.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Petri Lahtinen
>>
>> http://www.petrilahtinen.com
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> www.luis-angulo.com
>
>



-- 
Jean-Paul De Roover
www.jeanpaulderoover.com
(807) 251-3376

Check out the brand new video for "You"!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7QnxUgGQPc