Bill,
I don't contribute to the list much but thanks for this info, also, thanks for calling me intelligent!
It would be cool to create a 17 minute loop, then double it note for note on the second pass through the loop. Any taker's for the Large Loop Challenge?
Also, all kidding aside, I love my DL4, but have never used the one shot capability (play once), can you give some tips on how you use this? (I never even touched it!)
Thanks,
Eric
From: William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 10:31:04 PM
Subject: re:new digitech jamman stereo
Actually a little bird told me that they are releasing two new looping products, the first being a single pedal looper the size of a boss RC-2, called the JamMan Solo that will have the following features,
35 minutes of internal storage
possible 16 hours of material on SD card,( you know, for those really really really long gigs.)
44.1kHz 16 bit CD quality
Auto quantization (for those who can't find the one ;-)???)
USB connectivity with jam-manager software
built in metronome with 9 rhythm patterns
This may show up at the end of March
Then comes the
Jam Man Stereo , which has the same features and amount of storage as its little sibling but adds, stereo operation, a four foot-switch foot print about the size of the current JamMan, and, drum role please.............Reverse!!!!!
The rep I talked to said that maybe multiply would be added as a feature.
My first question is why the great fascination with storage??? Honestly I can see that some people might really put this feature to use in a very structured backing tracks format but for me, I'd rather have more features like track speed, and multiply and replace that can change the character of the loop. Even a DL-4 with its measly 14 seconds has both track speed,play once, and reverse, as well as a secondary delay with the ability to change delay parameters and loop volume with an expression pedal. The M-13 and M-9 are like the Dl-4 only with an entire compliment of effects thrown in for further sound manipulation. It just
seems that the two major players at the moment in dedicated hardware loopers, Roland and Digitech, have both taken a pretty conservative approach to developing feature sets, and seem intent on trying to win an on board memory battle rather than create cool and adventurous capabilities like the benchmark hardware loopers the EDP,the original Jamman, the Repeater, and more recently the Looperlative. And so now the Jamman Stereo has the "highly sought after Reverse playback feature" Woo Hoo!!! break out the party hats. Is it just me? I'm not very impressed. I must say i have tried to give feedback to these companies and every new rep I meet I tell then to log on to Loopers Delight if they want to find out what intelligent people are doing with with looping in the real world , but many of these companies are more in a bubble than one would hope.
OH well, now there will be a looper as small as a tube screamer that
will record a 16 hour jam band marathon, progress boys and girls progress.
Bill