Re: Foot controller for a dream looper

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 7:49 AM, andy butler wrote:

> Mark Hamburg wrote:
> 
>> P.S. While looking at my M13, the slightly simpler thing I would want 
>and that I wish Line 6 would build:
>> * Make the loopers stereo
>> * Give me four of them in the box, switch selectable via the top row of 
>buttons
>> * Give me a multiply button to replicate a loop
>> * Provide appropriate cycle syncing between the loopers (but make it 
>optional for those times when you don't want things synced)
>> * Make Undo a per loop thing so that for any loop I can essentially 
>have two versions though only based on including or not including the 
>last overdub.
> 
> So the Line 6 team gets a much simplified challenge compared to the 
>Looperlative team.

I figure Line 6 obviously doesn't care as much as the Looperlative team 
given their past history.

On the other hand, Line 6 has got a device that's really close to being a 
lot deeper and I'm sure they've got the DSP power inside the box to do it 
if they ejected the other effects in a dedicated looper.

> Undo does not really give you 2 versions, it gives you an overdub
> which can be switched on/off.

Yes, but it's still useful without going to multiple loops. The 
Looperlative already had the eight loops so it isn't an architectural 
change in the playback component to treat them in pairs.

> Hence that can be achieved by recording to a different track,
> and simply switching that track on/off.

That doesn't give you feedback control. You can leave Overdub on and layer 
things at low feedback until the original is mostly gone. Then click undo 
and it comes back. (I keep trying to figure out how the UI should work for 
a looper in which you could fade back on undo rather than just jumping 
back.)

Mark