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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | After contemplating the Boss RC-20XL for a year, I finally pulled the plug and bought one. After messing with it for a couple of weeks now, I realize that it was a bad decision for me. Great pedal and a lot of power, but not really what I thought I wanted or needed (will give it a bit more time, but may end up selling it if anyone is interested).
What I would really like is some sort of a drum or rythym machine that is pedal based, so you can set tempo, select your loop, and stop and start at will. Nothing fancy, but I sure am not seeing anything out there like that, but sure would be handle when I want a bit of percussion and don't want to program my keyboard.
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| Depending upon your goals, a midi capable drum machine in conjunction with a midi foot controller such as the Behringer FCB1010 might be the solution for you, although it won't be a $99 fix. |
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Location: Scotland | The Alesis SR16 is an industry standard, it'll do what you need. The SR18 is the latest version which has somewhat better drum sounds and a few more tricks up it's sleeve |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Next time the pizza gets delivered, just hire the driver. He's probably a drummer. (now you guys got me doing it... :mad: ) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
He's probably a drummer. Oh great, we now gotta carry pizza boxes besides all his 'gear'!! :p |
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Location: closely held secret | Ditto on the Alesis. Great unit, works well with one or two foot switches.
Here\'s an SR-16 for $134.
An SR-18 will run $225+. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Thanks for the heads up on the Alesis. I have owned a bunch of Alesis stuff over the years (even have their electronic drum set now) and have always been happy with it. Don't know why I didn't think of them with a foot controller as an answer to my dilema.
I will try the RC-20 a bit longer before deciding what to do there. |
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Location: Utah | If you have a home recording program, such as Garage Band on a Mac or the free Audacity for PC, you can record drum tracks and then export them as MP3 to your looper.
There are free drum loops out there, or you can buy loops from Drums on Demand or other vendors, and then create your own drum tracks. The drum loops are one measure (or fractions/multiples), each with their own little drum pattern. You can stretch them so they repeat. For example, drag and drop an "intro" loop into measure 1. Then drag and drop "verse" into measure 2. Now grab the right side of "verse" loop and pull it to the right until measure 50. Now drag and drop "ending" into measure 51. You have a 51 measure drum track.
You can set the tempo and can make the drum track as complicated as you like. Your pedal has 15 minutes of record time and several available tracks to record your drum tracks onto. |
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Drum/Rhythm machines
