Re: The EDP and the Looperlative and me

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

i had both and chose the EDP  at the end,it seems a lot more responsive and with loopIV hard to make it crash in fact it never did.Unfortunately the EDP in stereo with 2 units synced was never stable enough so i use it in mono.The other drag is that you better have a midi controller that sends notes on otherwise good luck.
the LP1 attractiveness for me was its stereo capabilities and easy to program with a foot controller.But it did crashed on me a lot and did not give me the confidence to go on stage with it,but my unit had other faults,it was quite noisy so i think i unfortunately got a faulty unit.
I never got to compare the midi sync possiblitiies but the EDP rocks on that department as well.
just my 2 cents

oh and happy new year!!!
Luis

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:

I completely understand you preferring the Looperlative, Rick. My point was to answer the question of why anyone might prefer the EDP which seems to come as a shock to some people on this list.

Though they might be dismissed as minor functionality, I'll note that two items on my list can't be replicated on the Looperlative:

* It doesn't have a big time readout that you can absorb at a glance.

* I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a function to let you set the tempo in advance which can actually be rather nice if you are using the looper as the clock source.

It could presumably gain the latter through a software update and maybe approximate the former depending on how much flexibility there is regarding its screen.

But you nailed it when you said the question is whether you want to spend your time working with multiple tracks or working in a more linear fashion. Each can do a bit of the other, but each is also clearly optimized around a particular point of view.

Mark