RE: (affordable) stereo (live) looping?

[Catilyne <catilyne@icicle.net>]

At 07:37 AM 7/15/2003 -0700, Greg House wrote:
>--- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Catilyne <catilyne@icicle.net> wrote:
> > > On a (sorta, kinda) related note, does anybody have
> > > a hardcopy of a Line 6
> > > Echo Pro manual with the unit schematic in it?
> >
> > I'm flipping through the manual now, and I'm not
> > finding a schematic. However, the specs chart on page
> > A5 (last page in the manual) specifies that the loop
> > mode is mono.
>
>Given that the rest of the box is stereo, I wonder why they treat the 
>loop 
>mode
>differently? Not enough DSP horsepower to handle it?

Those are some of the same questions I had.  I was just looking for 
something official to confirm the darn thing was undeniably mono (thanks 
Tim).  Even if the loop time were cut in half, it would've been nice 
having 
the option to choose between longer mono or shorter stereo loops.

>Too bad these boxes don't have an open firmware spec where you could 
>program
>things yourself...

Well, in light of the different mods out there for the Jamman or PCM-42, 
I'd also wondered if there were any possibility for asking/harassing Line 
6 
for just that sort of thing.  Probably would have been better timing to 
start doing it last year, though, before they dumped the units out of 
production...

Although it sounds as if Mark actually tried to explore that possibility, 
and ran up against a brick wall.

         -c-

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