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If you send the D2 a tempo thru midi it will respond to tempo changes while in rhythm mode. That has been my experience at least. Let me know if you get it to loop properly. I can't. nevertheless, I'm glad I bought mine. It has the cleanest, most accurate delay I've ever used. Dan Sumner --- Dpcoffin@aol.com wrote: > I've had about a week with a D-2 and it is > impressive, but not all that easy > to get control of. OF course, it sounds wonderful, > in the tc style, and the > advertised features work quite easily: You can tap > in a distinct rhythm > pattern, select an exact number of repeats, up to > 10, and fine tune the > ducking feature without much of a struggle. But for > looping it's a bit more > complex. You can set up a tip-ring footswitch pair > to tap tempo and bypass, > and the bypass can be set to work like a hold button > if you're at 100% > feedback. But what I prefer for looping with a delay > line is to have a pair > of control pedals, one assigned to input level and > one to feedback, and to > do this, as far as I can tell so far (and I haven't > actually got it working > yet), I'll have to add a dedicated stereo volume > pedal in front, and use a > configurable MIDI foot controller on which I can set > up a cv pedal to CC > 50...this # can't be reset on the D-2. There's a > list of maybe 25-30 control > destinations, each with a fixed controller #, so I'm > in for a long session on > the floor reassigning all the already-used switches > and pedals on my FC-200 > and their destination #s on my other gear so the > pedals don't do anything to > the D-2 when aimed at something else. > The Rhythm feature is cool, but has some quirks that > surprise me: It's not a > cross-feed delay like the rhythm feature on my > current looper and favorite > delay line, the Korg DL8000R, so it seems to not > repeat the very first > iteration of the pattern exactly, takes one loop to > settle in...or so it > seems so far; I'll have to study this more.... Also, > I'd expect a rhythm > pattern to follow a newly tapped tempo, but as soon > as you touch the tap > tempo footswitch to change that, the unit switches > out of Rhythm mode into > straight delay. If you want to speed up or slow down > an existing pattern, you > have to retap it in, or dial in a new global BPM > from the front. I may > discover that I can do this with MIDI foot control, > but the normally very > knowledgeable folks in tc's tech-support area don't > seem to know this puppy > well enough yet to tell me how, and it ain't in the > manual. > Noentheless, the D-2 is an inspiring tool, lots of > fun right out of the box. > I'll letya know when I get all the pieces together > whether it does exactly > what I want...like the now-discontinued DL8000R, > which I highly recommend > keeping an eye out for. It seems obvious to me that > tc checked this piece out > thoroughly when designing the D-2. So far I'm not > sure it's clearly superior. > I expect it to be, but, like I said, I haven't got > it working yet! > David Coffin > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/