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Re: Need help with RC-50



Adam Gaskins wrote:
> Right... but even though that is what it's 'designed for', I can loop
> my guitar in real time with it and then change tempo and it sounds
> very good still, same with the kaos pad... I can't wrap my mind around
> how Boss/Roland thought the RC-50s resampling was acceptable. I'm not
> just being picky here, it BUTCHERS the audio... After enough time
> scouring the online community for the RC-50 you find their are two
> camps... those who never try or see the need to change tempo after
> they record their first loop and are in heaven with this device, and
> those that bought it with the intent of using that seemingly amazing
> feature and found it unusable. It is a big problem, people have even
> tried to start petitions to try and get Boss to implement a better
> algorithm for resampling.


Just thinking out loud..  changing tempo means shortening or stretching 
the audio samples (AFAICT).  Maybe the RC-50 just wasn't build to allow 
this to take place, and thus Boss doesn't implement it.

Nevertheless, got links to such petitions?  -for the cause, of course ;)


> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Adam Gaskins <shipiboconibo@gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>>
>>>My beef is just
>>>that ableton can do it... my kaos pad can do it... why can't this
>>>think do it?
>>
>>Because it is a live recorded real-time input being looped. Ableton
>>Live was from the ground designed for manipulation of audio files
>>strored on the hard drive - not real-time input.
>>
>>Greetings from Sweden
>>
>>Per Boysen
>>www.boysen.se
>>www.perboysen.com
>>
>>
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rgds,
van Sinn