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Boss RC-50 Loop Station

Looper from Boss belonging to the RC series

narnodel narnodel
Published on 08/21/07 at 15:19
Nothing to add, view forums, instructions on site rolandus.com and opinions below ...

Two dtails missing when they could welcome t:
_ Single click, you have to work with a box if you want to rate lock to the tempo prcis.
_ Impossibility to send to a sentence between SPECIFICATIONS, which could be very practical. For example you plug in his guitar and microphone Inst Mic, and in multiplayer mode you can record the microphone on the guitar and a sentence on the sentence without asking two questions, whereas you have to turn volume buttons manually between shots so that there is no guitar on the song and no song on the guitar ...

Anyway, a hand I do not see much that could have added this product (quatrime a track ...?). But even when j&#39;enlve one point dtail forgotten because a cot would not Roland.

Lots of nice little functions are plutt (fade out in Settings, dparts simultaneously, one shot, overdub modes ...)

UTILIZATION

The configuration is far from being empty, but it&#39;s all fawns a complex machine, would not have been able to be so simple.

Loop Quantize functions and Loop Sync is trs INTERESTED, but we need to exploit opportunities REALLY long and thorough reading of the manual, to assimilate the concepts of Fully Tempo Sync and Loop Sync, in multi particulirement.
But once well paramtr the RC-50 can not be sr crash.

Lack a lightweight who is not a tragedy but it shows that the machine is not over: APRS recording a track with tempo sync enabled (or Loop Sync mode if the Premire track record - I told you that n&#39;tait not empty), the device automatically calculates the tempo gnral based on the time interval between the beginners and the end of the recording. The LED flashes the tempo pedals gnral this tempo, but fall any time o. Must arrter all tracks and boost for the first time (red) is in fact the first recorded time and the other (green) are well in sync with the sound. This is not a problem in 99% of cases, but by imagining that cre sound tracks with a hard tempo suivable (ie an agreement of 10 seconds), t have a practice of able to rely on diodes in order to launch the percussion track on the stack when the agreement is played. L must all arrter and restart, it&#39;s a shame.
The only solution is either to the guide, either before rgler tempo and well follow by watching the First Prev diodes ds recording (when in the previous example, there has been agreed 10 seconds).

There&#39;s someone there who understood the problem ...? ;-)

Voil is a tiny little dtail, but not so insignificant as me dj gn once, and would really not complicated to program t is the first time is Dfine when you press the pedals Play / Rec / Overdub for stopping the recording.

But as Manir gnrale I find how to use this damn contraption trs well, I put 8. And the complexity of the manual is not a problem for me, I love to take the head of the manuals!

SOUND QUALITY

The sound ...

When the tempo does not change with tempo sync, the sound is perfect. 44 kHz, 24 bit, super quality. The pramp microphone is good.

The white, some track speak for beginners is nonexistent with the update. With this update, we wonder why they left the possibility to stay in "Rhythm priority", I do not see why anyone would want a white beginners reading. It&#39;s true that we tend loop To check if jou has rhythm, but of all fawns would be glad at least some time on what you just recorded (for v Rifi, precisely), this only served white nothing.
The white can still exist when the function Loop Quantize is active, but it&#39;s because we shall adopt gnral recording APRS some time. If is stopped at the right time, no pb.

HOWEVER:

ds it is time-stretch, then l. .. 0
From 0.5 bpm of diffrence, the sound is unusable, but really. And even if we say we do not want to use the Time Stretch, may play tricks on us, like when you forget to disable the tempo sync mode single. All tracks are going to want to play exactly the same tempo (while all fawns had little prs jou to the same tempo), and thus the RC-50 is going to screw up the sound.
has also poses a problem with MIDI. When the RC-50 follows the clock that sent him, he tends to turn a bit around the true tempo, but never exactly on it. would not pose a problem if the Time Stretch worked, but messes up the sound.

Moreover, in the RC-50 MIDI has a hard follow tempo changes that he sends, but a hand, I still find that MIDI does not work so poorly in some cases (I not say it&#39;s great, but a password). O matre mode when the tempo is fixed, may help. Otherwise, forget it.

Good but just for the Time Stretch rotten, I put 5.
Without time stretch I put 10, but it serves them.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it only for a week, but we can say that I spent a week on it.
To use that I want to do is say recording acoustic instruments with no MIDI device, or tempo change, it suits me perfectly. I actually had an enjoyable surprise trs by learning to use it, it has a lot of cache dtails INTERESTED trs.
I can save my string quartets live register a battery and a low and run while I improvise, sing a chorus voices alone 4 a few pressures up ... Great possibilities, I think I&#39;ll write pieces made to be jous using an RC-50. I hte to see what I can do in concert.

This is the first looper I use.

The report qualitprix is ​​what it is, I got it for 349 euros including shipping costs on ComeBack music. By the way: those who sell, discontinue trying to put 350 euros, which would buy a used aircraft more expensive than new? (Well I say is, I saw one sell 370 euro not including shipping on eBay). 349 euros is not given but it is a big machine when same. At that price it would have to be perfect, but ...

So conclusion: do not use the MIDI and knowing how to be sr rgler not make me have the time stretch, this unit delights me. I do it again this choice, the only other multi-loopers are much more expensive.

But as Boss has not kept his promise and that he committed a few blunders and standard error (Time Stretch), I do that 7. I could have less, but I can not, even when I&#39;m really happy ...