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Re: Riff Box
Chris Sewell wrote:
> Anyone try the new Riff Box by Backline Egineering? (http://
> www.backline-eng.com/). It looks like it has some interesting things
> going on. Im still waiting for the perfect looper.
It has been discussed a few times, in a nutshell:
- it supports one loop
- it does not support being a MIDI sync slave
- it does support being a MIDI sync master
- it is designed to perform looping operations automatically
with minimal footswitch presses
They are quite proud of a feature that automatically detects the loop
start and end points by monitoring the incoming audio signal to
determine where the "beats" are. If you have a clean signal and
play music with obvious beats, this probably works reasonably well.
But I suspect many users will find this difficult to control and
resort to the typical two-tap method of defining the loop length.
It will depend on your looping and musical style.
It has a concept called "modes" which you can think of like
a sequence of looping operations performed automatically with
one footswitch press. If what you want to do fits within the
constraints of a mode, this could be quite handy. But if you
prefer to do free-form loop evolution (ambient, glitch, group
improvisation), you may not find this useful. Again, it depends
on the style of music you want to make.
Jeff
- References:
- Riff Box
- From: Chris Sewell <chris@chrissewell.net>