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Re: Repeater (was: A multi channel looper)



I bought my first Repeater when they first came out...(after months of delays!)
 
Years later I sold it. After that I had a boomerang, then a DL-4, then an Echo Pro, then RC-20XL...still missed the Repeater....
 
Bought my second repeater, then years later I sold it again and ended up with the Boss RC-50 awhile. Sold the RC-50, bought a Line-6 M13 (which I still use and absolutely love!) but of course...still missed the repeater.
 
Then I bought my third repeater! Then found another cheap one and went ahead and bought my fourth as well....what can I say...I love the repeater.
 
So I have two at the moment, and for me at least, I think that says it all, with all the looping devices I've used over the years (all of them quite good in their own rite) but I just can't get away from the Repeater. It's not perfect of course, but it's one of my favorites for sure.
 
I'd say the only reason I ever sold the first two repeaters I owned, was just due to how expensive they are....even after all these years they still normally sell for more $ than they did brand new 9 years ago!!!
 
-Nathan
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Repeater (was: A multi channel looper)


Zoe Keating from San Francisco here on the list is selling two at the moment.
That says it all, doesn't it?

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Er.. Nope.. people sell stuff all the time, it doesnt mean all of us a on that constant battle for the latest and greatest... it is a never ending journey and one that I have given up trying to win.

Zoe is probably the most road weary of us all, and lugging a huge hunk of wood around would mena she is def gonna go for the most compact looping unit around...

And there is no doubt that there exists various multi track loopers in software that out perform the Repeater now... But I have yet to hear time stretch like the repeaters in any form, and the ability to have a delay that comes back transposed (in 2 pitches at once) is something Im not sure the software versions do yet...

Its a clunky beast however, and the amount of trouble they went to to implement the ability to save onto a out moded disk format wasted some time they could have spent programming the midi implementation better and putting more things on the front panel... (How do you un mute a chanel if you did it via CC anybody??)

I still love my repeater.. but as a reliable song-loopers machine, I think its a bit frightening...




 
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