Hey gang, I have been able to obtain an advanced copy of the
Repeater version 2.01 upgrade, and though I haven’t had but a few hours
to play with it, I’m very impressed with what I have found so far. First of
all, the noisy artifacts at the output stage have disappeared. I have always
used the Dry/mute function to work around this quirk, but I could not tell the
difference between the input signal muted or unmated. It was that clean
sounding. Also gone are the end of loop artifacts and the multiply function
artifacts that would cause the unit to slow down or speed up if you weren’t
careful on punch outs, or when you were creating a first loop when synced to an
external clock. New features include a panic button/reset function that allows
you reset the repeater from a midi controller in the event the unit freezes up.
No more reaching around behind the RPTR to turn off the power. This is
convenient for anyone who has to play the occasional brown power gig like an
outdoor event running off an overtaxed generator. The Midi
clock seems more stable, as do the CC functions, its cool there is a tempo reset
function, particularly when you use a cc pedal to play with tempo and time
stretch like I do. Like I said I have only scratched the surface, and haven’t
taken the time to redesign some of my foot controller presets to take advantage
of new features like independent track reverse, stop and start. I’ll try
to keep everyone abreast as I learn more. I am so happy this has happened as
there are some many great things about the Repeater that are unique and yet
some of its quirks kept it from being what it could have been.. I think
many of those issues have been fixed, and I am excited to dig deeper in to the
new feature set.
I’ll keep you posted
Bill
