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OK, wasn't going to chime in here just yet, but here goes. For some odd reason, midi, someone casually pressing a button, which is unlikely in this case, power surge, or just plain malfunction, I selected the first two tracks of a loop for recording, as I finished up the sound check, so I could immediately begin recording with them. I didn't check or touch the Repeater save pressing the record button to begin recording at the start of my set, and then found out that the selected track which should have been the first two, was now in fact track three alone. I'm expecting my gear tomorrow, so am planning to try to recreate this with my Repeater. The next thing that happened, after switching to a new loop to enable stereo pairs, and recording an initial loop, the Repeater only seemed to overdub for one pass and then go out of record again. I may have seen this scenario once with my Repeater, so not sure about it... I wasn't actually able to get it to go into record mode properly after that. so I needed to keep trying to toggle in and out of overdub to get passes to record. EEK!!! since I've rehearsed this with mine, meticulously I might add, since I depend on really LEARNING the processes, I tend to think there was something weird going on. -just my thoughts of course... Smiles, CQ At 05:49 PM 10/9/02 -0700, you wrote: >Show me a piece of gear that can't be broken, and I'll tell you you're not >trying hard enough. What do you mean you have to "adapt your performance >after what is actually possible to do with the Repeater"? OF COURSE YOU >DO. Try doing an 8 min loop on the EDP. Nope. Try inserting two beats >of >time into a Repeater loop. Nope. Just because you've found the limits of >a piece of gear is no reason to say it's unreliable. > >I'm telling you people, just like the EDP, the Repeater is an instrument >that needs to be learned and played. Practice has helped me immeasurably. >I'm so used to it that when I got the EDP, that felt awkward, just as I >had >once thought the Repeater was. I think any high end looper is going to >take time getting good at. > >Mark Sottilaro > >Per Boysen wrote: > >> > > I lent her my Electrix Repeater which glitched in the middle of her >> > > performance (god, I love and hate my Repeater........it >> > does incredible >> > > things and so far, is not very reliable live). >> >> I have to agree. My experience is that you have to adapt your performnce >> after what is actually possible to do with the Repeater. Sometimes when >> reaching a too fast tempo the Repeater simply cannot calculate the time >> streching. I have also run into problems when recording too long loops. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Per Boysen >> ________________ >> www.boysen.se >> www.fuzz.se >> www.upsweden.com > > --- "The only things I really think are important, are love, and eachother. -Then, anything is possible..." http://home.earthlink.net/~thefates Please visit The Guitar Cafe. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-guitar-cafe