Re: Digitech JamMan, Mark-god-knows-what

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

The stereo Jamman is due out any day. its past due for ship date I  
believe.  From the little bit of time I spent with the Solo Jamman . I  
don't think the time stretch capability will be of a real time- on the  
fly -in performance nature.  More for after you have recorded  and  
saved a loop and want to alter the tempo. Certainly not like a  
Repeater. i must admit I haven't spent that much time with it but my  
first impressions were that that was not a feature that was easily  
accessible. I'll play with it a bit more, i was mildly annoyed that it  
had a bunch of useless factory preset loops with drum tracks embedded  
in the loops, that required having to first erase and clear the loops  
before trying to create a fresh one. One would think that they would  
want to make the first impression of this cool new box, how easy it is  
to press play, record something and start overdubbing, but nooooooo,  
they want to show you the limited drum machine on every track :0)....  
I'm just bitching, it really is a nice looper for people who like to  
use pre-recorded material and for those who like to live loop long  
progressions and soundscapes, as well as beginners or singer  
songwriters.
Bill