Re: RC-50 and sucking at syncing and some sucky customer service to boot

[PIM Contact <pantsless@taintedbytrolls.com>]

When you turn the volume of the guide track down, it turns the guide off 
which then turns quantization off, which then causes your actual recorded 
loops to be out of sync.  You do not need to time stretch in order sync, 
no...  it's all about the guide, unfortunately as far as timing goes on 
the rc-50.  That's true, it is not actual sync, it's almost as though I'm 
tricking the rc-50 into syncing.  I played around with it last night and 
was successful using my workaround but... sure do wish this actually 
worked like it should.

-Shane

On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 AM, andy butler wrote:

> PIM Contact wrote:
> 
>> So, here is the part about their customer service.  I emailed them 
>trying to ask about this.. " stereo audio is twice as difficult to sync 
>and/or time-shift than mono audio."
>> - Are you kidding me?
> 
> It's my favourite time on LD when someone posts a workaround for
> some issue with a loop device that the manufacturers can't fix.
> 
> Not even our resident experts, (who have some *very* deep knowledge
> of the RC50 haven't got it to sync).
> 
> The Roland/Boss answer suggests that they think you have to time stretch
> a loop in order to sync it. That simply isn't the case.
> 
> I wonder if you're benefiting from clock accuracy, by setting master and 
>slave to the same tempo, rather than an actual sync. 
> 
> 
> 
> andy butler
> ps. can't you turn down the vol of the guide track and save that setting 
>in your preset?
> 
>