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Re: Boomerang III quick review
Yes, thanks for explaining it better than I could Mark. I did know that
you can press stack while recording but that involves the tap dancing
while your trying to lay down,let's say, a rhythmically accurate loop. I
did have it set for seemless loop boundaries as well because I would
always hear this fade in/out otherwise, when playing a bowed string
instrument. It was unusable for me without that feature. I also wish the
boomerang could be set to loop like this:
> Rec/Dub --> Recording
> Rec/Dub --> Overdubbing
> Rec/Dub --> Playing
I also know that it's possible to loop my instrument without clicks and
with seemless loop boundaries because I can accomplish it in Mobius. Yes,
it's software, but iI think t's also software in the boomerang too that is
running the show.
On Jun 11, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Grant wrote:
>
>>> I agree with you Mark. When I had the Boomerang that's the one thing
>>> that really bothered me. You can't go straight >into overdub after you
>>> finish the first loop. You can can tap the stack button before the
>>> loop end point (If you >created a short loop on loop3 to set the
>>> tempo) but it is too much tap dancing or at least my music suffered
>>> when I'm >quickly trying to press stack and play my instrument. Would
>>> be nice if you could set it up to go straight into stack >mode after
>>> establishing the loop. I also noticed that if I left it in stack mode
>>> and switched between loops1-3 I >would get clicks and pops. This was
>>> even if I wasn't playing anything on my instrument. I solved both of
>>> these issues >by using Mobius in software land but then I gained all
>>> the issues of using a computer:) Would be pretty awesome if >these
>>> things could be worked out on the boomerang. It would be a perfect
>>> compact looper for my serial style looping.
>>
>> I believe you can press Stack anytime while a loop is recording (with
>> or without a master loop) and stacking will begin on that loop when you
>> end recording (Serial style). If you get a click it might be because
>> you have it set for seamless stacking (for drones) and this overides
>> the loop boundry smoothing. Just some things to check or try.
>
> You can indeed press stack while recording. That's where the tap-dance
> part comes in.
>
> Loop N switch to start recording
> Stack (possibly a hold if you use the default configuration)
> Loop N switch to finish loop and start stacking
> Stack to stop stacking
>
> Contrast this to Line 6, the Looperlative, etc:
>
> Rec/Dub --> Recording
> Rec/Dub --> Overdubbing
> Rec/Dub --> Playing
>
> Or to the EDP:
>
> Record --> Recording
> Overdub --> Overdubbing (and note that overdub is the next switch
> over)
> Overdub --> Playing
>
> I'm trying to convince Mike Nelson that you should be able to finish
> recording with a hold and have the loop length set based on the button
> down point but it would stack at decay 0 (feedback 100%) until you
> released the button. If you really want to do the Frippertronic ever
> evolving loop thing, you would still want to use the stack button
> behavior, but for a simple "keep the delay tails" loop closure this
> would work.
>
> The mockups of the forthcoming sidecar has a dedicated stack button
> which one could argue should exit recording and go into stacking if one
> was recording. Then you could use it just like the EDP.
>
> Returning to what the Boomerang does as opposed to what it doesn't do.
> I've played some more and I've done some more half-speed work and I'm
> now quite happy with the sound quality. So, except for it being too hard
> to go from record into overdub, this is proving to be a great box. (Did
> I mention how small it is and how solid it feels and how great the
> switches are?)
>
> Mark
>
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