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--- Claude Voit <c.voit@vtx.ch> wrote: > having followed the LP1 forum for a while, I'm a > little bothered with the > "throw in your ideas, boys" way of develloping a > software. Boy howdy, Claude!! At first I thought, "what a great idea, go to the people!" and then reality set in. People are self absorbed jerks! I'm a self absorbed jerk! I'm shocked that Bob's not gone crazy by this point. I can't wait for the "let's change the logo thread!" ;) I can't help but feel that in some ways, maybe due to his design by customer input, that I bought a beta product. The manual is poor (many features are barely mentioned, let alone explained, if it wasn't for Steve Lawson on the forum I probably would have returned the LP-1), it's got outputs that aren't implemented in any way and did ship with a fair amount of bugs. (many have already been found and fixed) Was a night of my life wasted because v 1.1 refered to midi channels as 0-15? Yes it was. Another gone because the midi clock sync didn't work? Yeah, that too. Another gone because stopped tracks don't restart synced to the clock... Also, because of it's very open yet unfinished form I'm one of those frustrated owners. It's a tweak away from being my dream looper. (there's curently no way to use the midi tracks as separate loops when synced to a midi clock and have them operate like the EDP or the Repeater does, toggling betwen them) Judging from what I read on the forum you could operate it that way. If this was a product from a company like Roland or Digitech, it would have been returned. Mostly when those companies release a product it is what it is. I'd have said, "Oh, this product does't operate like I want it to. Bye bye." But now I have a product that *may* change into what I want. This is kind of odd, as rather than digging into if for what it is (a very cool multi track looper), I can't help but think of what it isn't and might be. LOOP TEASE! Will my tweak come? I don't know. I've put in several requests but never got a "oh that's slated in the next release" or "no, that's not doable at this time" reply. The reply was "When it comes to multiple tracks, especially when combined with MIDI sync, we will need to spend more time defining how you want the software to work. The software is still young and I'd be happy to make changes to make operate in a useable fashion." How much time? Do I be patient? I don't develop hardware/software loopers so I have no idea what it takes in terms of time to implement features. Maybe my request isn't worth Bob's time as I'm one of few that even care about this. As it stands now it's mostly useless to me *but I couldn't know that based on prerelease information* It's not even in my signal chain. I know I'm ranting (I'm a good ranter, eh?) but $1200 left my bank acount on something that's sitting on a shelf. Do I wait? How long? Bob has been amazing and patient, but part of me wishs that a bit more time was spent in initial conception before it was released. If I knew that this *is* the way the LP-1 is going to be for a long time, I would have passed. I'm not saying the LP-1 isn't GREAT. It is a great looper. In some ways it's the best. If you're not a midi clock looper, this may indeed be your box. If you don't care about cuing a new loop to start recording at the end of the current loop AND then going back and finding the first loop still perfectly synced to your drum machine, this may be your looper. If you want 8 stereo channels of midi synced (or not) loops that don't all have to be the same length, this may be your looper. Of course Bob is on this list so he's probably going to read this. Hi Bob! Bob, I like you. I like the Looperlative. I could not have done anything like this at all. I have much respect for your hard work and effort. Your ability to implement all our crazy feature requests in a short time has been amazing. I'd have told me to fuck off a long time ago. In a sense I wish you would. Then I could say, "is the LP-1 worth owning in it's current form?" and be done with it. Like it is it's an itch in my brain that I just can't scratch. Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com