Re: boss loop station announce

[Dustbunnies <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 3:48 PM -0700 8/13/10, William Walker wrote:
>  I like Dust bunnies  idea of guerilla infiltration., though 
>honestly....I personally would feel like I was cheating, unless 
>there was a boss looper in the chain.

Thanks for the support, Bill.  :)

Although this would in no way be "cheating", because it's all 
explicitly against contest rules.  Anybody participating would 
obviously be disqualified outright.  But this isn't about actually 
participating in the contest.  Instead, this is about using the 
contest as a conduit to send a message back to Roland/Boss.

And how many times have you heard the same stories we all have: Reps 
and Tech Support from Roland US or Roland UK pushing hard to get a 
good idea up their chain-of-command.  Then after all that work 
watching that idea disappear into a black hole once it's transmitted 
to Roland Headquarters back over here in Japan -- never to be seen or 
heard of again.

I swear, it seems Roland R&D is largely deaf, dumb, and blind to 
anything outside its front door here in Nihon.  Opening their eyes to 
the fact that they actually have users with interesting ideas would 
be a good thing.  I'd hope this might even *help* your friend John, 
in that they might finally start taking his feedback seriously!!!

>because I like John and in spite of my views about Roland they do 
>make good quality, and sometimes very innovative gear,

Oh, I know exactly what you mean.  I'd love to be able to simply 
"hate on" anything/everything Roland.  But I can't, because for every 
~20 or 50 pieces of mainstream music schlock they churn out, there's 
always one product which is genuinely groundbreaking, or which can be 
(unintentionally or not) twisted in ways that make it a truly 
inventive piece of gear.  Just off the top of my head, I can name 
three I use myself: the VG-technology guitar modelling, the Boss 
Slicer, and the Boss DD-20.  I won't go into detail (because it's 
been covered here before), but those 3 alone are simply brilliant. 
If I spent more than 30 seconds, I could probably come up with a 
half-dozen more examples.

My suspicion for years is that Roland R&D has one single "mad 
scientist" who gets shifted from project to project.  He adds what he 
can, when he can, but then gets pulled away to the next project.  The 
rest of the development is handled by the standard, canned, 
design-by-committee crap.

But even those innovations don't excuse Roland HQ's tendency to 
completely ignore the needs and suggestions of its user base. 
Perhaps this would help get it through their heads that there are 
people other than their "pro endorsers" who can contribute innovative 
suggestions.

        -- mech.
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