Re: Boomerang survey - please respond

[Steve U <stevebassbird@yahoo.com>]

Option 1 sounds good to me! 

Thanks for continually working on this kind if stuff Mike! 

Also, I hope I'm not being presumptuous by throwing this out there, but 
another feature I'd love is to be able to fade only one track, not all of 
them, as fade does now.  A workaround I do now is to turn the decay up a 
bit and start stacking on the track I want to fade.  Of course, the main 
draw back of this is that I have to not play anything while the track is 
slowly replaced with silence.  

Any how, really glad you are working on the instant stacking feature, 
thanks again!

Steve Uccello

www.steveuccello.com

> On May 16, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Mike <mnelson@boomerangmusic.com> wrote:
> 
> 2 tap record & play with stacking active
> 
>    While the Rang™ III can go directly from recording a loop to playing 
> with stacking active, it is currently a 3 tap process involving one of 
> the Bonus Buttons. It goes like this:
> Tap loop button – recording starts
> Tap Bonus button to select Stack – Stack light blinks
> Tap loop button – recording concludes, playback begins and Stacking is 
> active
> 
>    Several customers have requested a more streamlined approach, so I’m 
> going to outline a few methods and ask that y’all let me know which is 
> the most appealing.
> 
> 1) Press a loop button to begin recording… if the button is held down 
> for 1 second then released, the second tap of that loop button will 
> conclude recording and begin playback with Stack active. If a loop 
> button is tapped and quickly released, the second tap will conclude 
> recording and begin playback without Stacking; this is identical to the 
> current behavior.
> 
> 2) Rather than being the permanent behavior of the III, number 1 would 
> be an Optional Behavior that the user can turn on and off.
> 
> 3) Tap a loop button to begin recording; the second tap will conclude 
> recording and begin playback with Stack active. With this design, 
> holding the loop button down does nothing. This will definitely be an 
> Optional Behavior that the user can turn on and off.
> 
> 4) We could change the Stack behavior so that the following would occur. 
> Tap a loop button to begin recording; tap Stack (Bonus button) to 
> conclude recording and begin playback with Stack active. Tapping the 
> loop button a second time would conclude recording and begin playback 
> without Stacking. This will definitely be an Optional Behavior that the 
> user can turn on and off.
> NOTE – for this to work well, one Bonus button would have to be assigned 
> to Stack only. It couldn’t rigger two functions as the Bonus buttons 
> normally do.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mike Nelson
> Secretary/Treasurer, Boomerang Management, Inc.
> General Partner of Boomerang Musical Products, Ltd.
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