#80

Yeah, if I ever bump into one Iā€™ll let you know! :smiley:
But Iā€™m afraid that it would take more than just a frontpanel. Unfortunately these boxes are not like Elektronā€™s (or other makers that use nice rectangular metal boxes). The 505 is in an injection-moulded box, to make one of these itā€™s going to be at least 50K just to have the necessary hardware made.
But I totally get your point about the aesthetics, itā€™s really not a great looking thing, and with all those lights it looks a bit too much like a pimped up ride.
Btw. Roland seems to be very good at this lately :slight_smile:

#81

Who says the new box has to be injection moulded too though? Surely not too hard to dump all the PCBs into a new enclosure.

#82

Hmmā€¦ after looking at it again, I think youā€™re right. It would indeed fit into one box, which could be made out of metal. It would be a bit of a heavy one, but certainly better feeling and looking than the plastic one.
Thereā€™s probably just two tricky things that need to be checked: how do the buttons stay in place, and how to make the LEDs around the big rec buttons shine through.

From this picture here http://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/boss-rc-505-loop-station-1233487.jpg it looks like all the controls are on a PCB that can be panel mounted.

#83

This new thing looks incredible:

And since I already have an iPad, only $199 is a pretty good price!

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#84

"The Looperverse Pedal is a smart pedal designed to integrate with the Looperverse app.

The pedal provides 6 witches"

finally some competition for 3 sisters

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#85

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hardware :grinning:

#86

Soā€¦ this is just a wireless MIDI controller, isnā€™t it?
Loopverse looks pretty interesting and capable though (apart from being iOS-based, which kills it a bit for me). Not really sure how it works, the video doesnā€™t really show much of that, but it seems a bit similar to this one: https://zenaud.io/

#87

Agreed. You also still need an audio interface.

But the app seems great, worth a try with a midi controllerā€¦

#88

Anyone know what that odd LED flashing wedge thing is that she puts her iPad on early in the video?

#89

Thatā€™s no wedge, its a wej.

I believe its a bluetooth midi hub thing with lots of LEDs because why not.

#90

Damn that thing is cool. I want one!

#91

Iā€™ve Kickstartered one and itā€™s pretty nifty. Can handle a lot of tempo syncing (thatā€™s what the lights do, natch), and itā€™s really handy for when Iā€™m using my AD Odio to process audio through the bottom port of the iPad, but still want to control things or have the iPad do sequencing duty somewhere else. The whole thing is light because the majority of it is heavy-duty rubber, with the electronics really only in that area with the lights. And it does what it says: a simple platform for the iPad to sit on top of.

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#92

I wonder if it could also be an option to use a Raspberri PI + Sooperlooper + a foot controller. You could probably make that very self contained and compact with a bit of DIYing

#93

So it might seem weird but I think I decided I need a second looper in my guitar signal chain. Just a small one like the regular ditto. Reason being that I would like to be able to record a dry riff and then be able to tweak the effects being applied to it as it loops, and then build layers of those affected loops. The signal flow would be something like:

Guitar - small looper - compressor - volume - other effects / delay etc - ditto x4 looper - reverb

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#94

Lots of looping folks use two loopers this way.

Although, if I started to do a lot of stuff with pedals Iā€™d probably want a patchbay for re-routing purposes.

But for myself, the ER-301 has unlimited loopers. I think I just need some foot switches, rather than build up a pedal boardā€¦ In fact, I should just use some MIDI > CV to make my Behringer FCB1010 more usefulā€¦

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#95

Thatā€™s a good idea, though as far as patch bays go that that one is pretty unsophisticated. You can get guitar patchbays that have preset-recallable routings and that sort of thing. Boss just released this: https://www.boss.info/global/products/es-8/ though there are even simpler and less expensive ones out there. I mostly just use a couple of delay pedals and a reverb and play with the knobs / flip through presets there, so I donā€™t have much of need for patching. Also my guitar goes through a Roland VG-99 which has all sorts of options for recalling different tones etc.

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#96

i like to use a switcher and have loopers and freeze pedal all in parallel going into a mini mixing desk. I use the boss slicer on the mixing desk fx loop to pulse a rhythm in if i feel the need. Its a great set up. i keep it all on a benchā€¦ my feet dont go anywhere near itā€¦ that brain looper looks good but a bit confusing to read- probably makes more sense to you eurorack types. I couldnt imagine kneeling down and repatching it between songs- but of course you do get use to such things. Think Kisielk is right if you are going down that route you probably want presets. Looks nice though - sure it has its niche.

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#97

Can anyone comment on the Strymon Timeline as a looper? I was thinking of picking up a new delay and a looper and it seems to fill both roles nicely.

#98

this was my pedal patch bay solutionā€¦
http://mapmap.ch/index.php/ongoing/landline/
I made two prototypes but never got around to producing them.
I really should just hire someone to do the electronics part of it.

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#99

I have an Eventive TimeFactor, which also doubles as a looper. Itā€™s a really cool single-track looper, with nice things like tweakable start/end positions. Despite really liking it, I never use it does not work together with the delay (itā€™s either one or the other). 99% of the time I do need a delay, and the TimeFactor is my delay of choice. I would love it to work like the Strymon, where the looper is usable together with the delayā€¦ maybe I should get that one instead.