Re: Line 6 M-13 and continuos controllers - and Line6 products in general (a little bit of whining)

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

I don't think this is particular to Line6.  

Years ago I said that all looping devices had at least one unique desirable feature and were all inexplicably missing at least one other feature (feedback control was the usual candidate).  

Multi-effects units seem to be the same way, and Lexicon/Roland/Rocktron/Yamaha units I've used all suffer from the same "Why didn't they do THAT?!" issue.  Bear in mind that the audience for these things tend to be conventional "non-experimental" (heh) musicians, who typically want to replicate a wide variety of already recorded tones or produce variations on those tones.  The old "80/20" rule of business applies here.

TH

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi Bill,

thanks for that lengthy report on the M13.

I find it interesting (and this is also in line with a lot of your
findings) that Line6 seems to have a really odd strategy when defining
their products, in so much that they always give you about 85% of the
features you long for (and a few extra ones as well), but then leave a
few really important ones uncovered.