All user reviews of 2/5 for the Boss RC-50 Loop Station

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UTILIZATION

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SOUND QUALITY

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OVERALL OPINION

The interface is really bad thought, a disaster. A mammoth task for those who want a whole set up taking into specific scenarios for each pieces and frozen.
I find the RC-50 really lightweight design point of view, the programs that can offer flexibility.
The more I use, the more I doubt I will ever succeed in making great music with three poor sentences pseudo-independent circling ... Still I cling, I try to do something but I'm far from giving up ...

Note that I put on the characteristics is due to the difference between what is announced and what actually works.

UTILIZATION

Functions well thought out and others downright poorly managed. The biggest problem of the RC-50 is this feeling of having to find a trick to overcome the shortcomings of the simplest functions ...

The White reading the first sentence is not a myth recorded. The only way to overcome is to repeat the first beat of the loop. Used to it, but hey, for a product called "loopstation" is the last straw. Those who say that this is not true either have the chance to be stumbled upon a manufacturing defect beneficial use or sync with a predetermined tempo, which is binding in case of improvisation.

SOUND QUALITY

This is an area where the RC-50 is pretty good defending. The sound is good and the multiple adjustment possibilities.

OVERALL OPINION

A point that has rarely been discussed here: the synchronization between the patches.

My original idea was to use pre-recorded loops to play my songs live alone or with my group. Some of my pieces require multiple patches, knowing that a patch can contain only three sentences synchronized (eg main loop divided into three phrases, and another patch with a bridge cut into 3 sentences). What greed on my part ... The LOOPstation can not enchainer patches! When using the patch change function via the pedals, there is a delay before playback of the selected patch, the latter is as follows or not, same with dial. The only solution is to stop the current patch, then cut the end of the loop, and start to feel the following patch.

I started with the icing but the cake is not bad-plus. The import of loop is an ordeal. Assume, so simple that I want to import three phrases 100BPM a patch via the USB port. If I do it directly, the patch in question remains to 120BPM and therefore distorts the length of my loop at 100BPM. I have nothing to add about the quality of time-stretching of the RC-50 already given by other user-in short, ridiculous. Never mind! I preset the tempo of the patch so that I will import my curls. But no, it's the same, the RC-50 RE-set itself the tempo and time-stretch, etc.. The only solution is to set the tempo to 100BPM, save the sentence to three white, and then replace those sentences with my curls when importing. Finally, we are left to organize a system of draconian work. Who says draconian, says restrained creativity.

In summary, the RC-50 that could have been a high-powered tool for creativity happens to be a puzzle as technical problems of succession solutions in subtle radical solutions (for radical hear, it does not work, I give up. ..)

Know what you want to do ...

For musicians wanting to just use the RC-50 live on a loop (thus forgetting bridges, breaks, etc. ..) the RC-50 is proving a useful tool with synchronized three sentences, if indeed we White accepts the start of the first reading of the recorded phrase.

For those who want to buy the RC-50 to exploit the advanced features, I implore you, look for another device, you avoid hours of taking the final head to give up hope on the "potential" of this machine.