All user reviews for the Boss RC-50 Loop Station

Looper digital with three layers
2 stereo inputs (line and instrument) 1 microphone input with 48V
USB for loading and unloading of samples
250 MB of storage (49 min mono)
MIDI sync
Many metronomes with all possible metric of 2 / 2 to 15/16
2 independent outputs (Main / Sub headphone and) every sentence is freely assignable

THE FAILURE: The headset is the MAIN output, if you want one click only in the headset, you have to swing out to the public and the SUB once the master gain is at headphone

UTILIZATION

Not obvious at first, be sure to read the user manual to understand the subtleties. The manual is good although I was only in English.

DEFECTS: a hole in her early in the second loop, you must replay the first time otherwise it looks stupid. After walking the loop quantize nickel. The algo stretch of time is not great. The color of the LEDs is not clear enough between REC and OVERDUB, it must be very focused to get it right on stage.

Editing patches is well thought out, each parameter may depend on a particular patch or a global setting. All parameters are controllable by MIDI.
The Loop Sync keeps synchronous loops of the same duration. If it is removed you can run multiple loops of small but high sync is lost if we stop being the one and then delivers.

Two pedals are seven assignable to a parameter choice.
If you really want to drive all there must be other controllers, an expression pedal for volume sentences, it can serve.

SOUND QUALITY

Excellent sound quality. 24 bit 44.1 khz
Mode "Flat Amp" is available to compress the micro or the AUX input.

OVERALL OPINION

Excellent pedal despite these major avoidable default. Super fun to play with concentration.
Use to stuff quietly in his corner, to make arrangements and work on a click in the headphones.

The CHARACTERISTICS you know them all
on paper is the bomb! (256 mb from the non-expandable)
have about the same ultimate looper, twelve o'clock syncro etc ...
always bahi by Roland and BOSS products for 30 years I am a customer for their reliability fficacitme5 simplicity, w30, MV30) I run j'achte eyes closed, in June I Reserved and I've since July
j'enlve 2 points for 256 mb

UTILIZATION

No instructions in French! NNIS that on the forum soon trouvbr />
complex full of lights flashing, but hey I said if I want to do all that I want to pay is the price
but I m'tonne on notice not to find pictures of implmentation noon!
there are three change orders for dozens of feature, aie aie aie!

SOUND QUALITY

The sound is good, but when you move Fidler same 3-bpm tempo is the duck
So the tempo change is unnecessary
I put 10 to his otherwise

OVERALL OPINION

Nobody can use it as he wants (see forums)
all have big problems of sync, hack the total EST
before buying it I suggest you try it dtail have us take for beta testers, even large btas

Nickel for what I wanted to do (start a solo project on stage).
For more details see the post of arnoterra above.

UTILIZATION

Same, nickel, and in Effect Center was given the user manual in English AND french
Few buttons, of course, but once they have been in hand, it's easy and nature (God for me) knows I'm bad with the accessories with the "boutonnite"

SOUND QUALITY

What can I say? Although used in the ass with a sound card correctly I think sincerely able to get out my own demo CD in the near future (I have my entire system since only a few days is going to require a bit of sound engineering, so )

OVERALL OPINION

I use it recently but I am delighted!
Exactly what I needed to launch my solo project. In three weeks I have already pre-projects that ring for compound 4 (and 6 other about to be "orchestrated").
Obviously, this requires concentration and good rhythm management if: duck, inevitably (and then after three days of use, we catch ourselves wondering what to redial to use it without sync because it should not hide his pleasure), but hey, it's the same with a group, right?
I made mini-lives in front of friends (including musicians) and they were all amazed, especially those who know how the electronics tends to make me ... the effect of prunes ...
While I do not use the MIDI yet (actually I do not need to first show that I prepare), and therefore can not comment on the issues raised in this regard.
But for someone who just wants to make zic and self-support, which machine!
I almost buy the Digitech looper but I can say today that if I fly the RC 50, I go into debt to buy!

Everything you would expect from a multi-Fawn Loop pedals (3 + 1 for the rate Intgr bote. Ditables All parameters are with a traditional ergonomic products for boss .

UTILIZATION

The manual is clear enough for our answer to the questions that arises when using the machine. The number of features is important to o some time to digest the whole. Nanmoins, ergonomics is good.

SOUND QUALITY

The sound quality is clear to the appointment.

OVERALL OPINION

Ok, there is indeed a default of read-white THE FIRST APRS loop recording (I feel its length dpend the size of the loop), which should be corrected by patch up days (well, I Espree). For the rest, from the RC20, and have tried a Jamman, there's no photo, I keep the RC50. Not using syncho noon, no opinion on the subject.

See other reviews for features
basically that is a sampler looper (JamMan, HeadRush ....)

The difference from a competition that is the patch for three independent loops and MIDI sync

UTILIZATION

Manual in french
then no choice you really read the user manual as few buttons and a lot of functions

SOUND QUALITY

For this operation I am annoyed because I have sold my JAMMAN to buy the RC50 and I would have no

Wholesale:
MIDI sync does not work (I bought it on purpose for me stalling on a sequencer and samples)
loop when the first sentence there is a hole in the order of 1s in the reproduction?? which work on stage

for the rest that is not bad at all, the sound is good the three loops allow a lot of fancy memory a bit short if you are in stereo, but that is playable

OVERALL OPINION

I have been 4 months and I 'looking forward to an update because there' s the outright scam or deceptive advertising
It smells product (not fresh) put a little too fast on the market to counter the JAMMAN

if there is no update before Christmas, mine is for sale

small update: setting a long-awaited day has arrived and ... almost no change ---> SCAM

Concerning the RC 50 latency issues are often due to the original settings that put a fade in and fade out on each sentence avrifier. The only regret I think that the undo redo c only works on the last registered function among the three sentences and not on each sentence. We do not really looper between 3 feet of the shot. But is this so serious? For those interested I cre a blog to disseminate what we can do with the RC 50 then Do not hesitate to broadcast bipez me http://compobossrc50.musique.com/

erik

UTILIZATION

More than a single multi purpose

SOUND QUALITY

I use mainly with acoustic guitars

OVERALL OPINION

The RC 20 is really cheap
the rc 50 a bit expensive though I almost buy a 576 euros before you see that not far from home he was silent available 448 euros ....

See more advice, he loops around, but not the curlers.
There are two main modes of loops on the three available tracks:
or sounds are played down, or the loops are sequenced, with or without syncrho for two modes which allows for complex possibilities.
The functions of each pedal may be reassigned for each of the 99 patches, which can be very useful for example to start playing to a sample.
For me, there is a weak point, that on a track overdub everything is done and we can not recover each layer separately on a PC to play with a sequencer.
Well since we have three tracks, we still three separate samples.
This is probably related to the amount of memory available, which often appears as a weakness (I vacuum regularly on a PC, so no problem on that side).

UTILIZATION

Manual in french or better in English because the translation is sometimes a little ambiguous.
It would be very careful to stop at the "Quick Start" manual as the features are not intuitive. Everything is configurable, pedals, MIDI control.

I use a rather complex routing of signals since I came back my instruments - vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussions roland and exit loop RC50 - 8 tracks on a AW16G sends itself the instruments on the entrance RC50. In short, it allows me to have when I register each layer separately + track loop.

Next afternoon, I had no problem to drive my RC50 for my AW16G so I do not understand the previous reviews (the manual is really that complicated?). I use the MIDI Clock and MTC for non sync. And it works. The tempo of the RC50 is well tuned to the click of my AW16G and it also receives the carefree twelve o'clock start / stop.

Regarding the first problem that is not played, it's true that I am not pose any problem because it allows me to see if I looped well.
That said, I tried yesterday the new boss of firmware and after installation, you can start the Boss RC50 by pressing [loop sync] + [clause 2], and after it plays the loop from the first sample san worries

SOUND QUALITY

Very good, you can listen to an improvisation done in one take, which I was happy enough to put it on my album - on Jamendo:
http://hwww.jamendo.com/fr/album/4005/
This is the final piece: "09 - bonus loop - the spy".

There is almost nothing that had to mix / master (a bit of compression)

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 8 months, and I've never been as happy and as productive as I have since this gear. This is a working tool and creating incredible, and yet I feel like using all possible functions (including adding a MIDI foot controller).
You can buy it eyes closed, it's really a good machine

I can not believe it, says it all does. 3 tracks and 24 minutes in Stereo (double mono) or 256MB of internal memory is ample for my use. Compltes inputs and outputs (+ Stereo microphone with power supply fantme, noon, headphones, USB ...), 99 programs who remember ALL (configuration of sync, scenic trails, reading inverted e, VOLUME each of the three tracks ...) and so on and the best

UTILIZATION

Live only for me. I play alone. I run a loop percu, a guitar and yalla! Trs easy to use when you know the concept and uses dj. Everything starts as you want and you can save everything. The manual is in French. May be a chouille complicated when you do not mtrise with the concept (especially around the options loopsync, timesync, loopquantize ... you get lost a little sometimes)

SOUND QUALITY

Word, 24-bit 44.1 kHz is largely good, especially live. No noise and no noise. Good!

OVERALL OPINION

For Those about the loop, we salute you! Incredible, I am a regular of the genre, I play alone and used for over a year the RC20 looks like a toy gadget ct point of this machine. We can all imagine, plan and save everything to return easily what you want to reproduce live. The default? I see it. The issue of time limit between the end of the recording and reproduction of beginners is not teachers: in gnral loop when you want something, we always play a little contunu on able to APRS. The fact that there have a quick end to double white sound. And then on the one hand, there is no dcalage in the timing as I could sometimes have with the RC20 and also has the default t corrected with the new firmware. The rest is that of happiness: I run a loop djembe pan in the center, a guitar riff pan right, left, and I send a rhythm of big! In short, I love. I got it for 349 Comeback music, delivered in 24 hours with me ... What you ask for?
A regret? Yes just one good: there shall have been a memory card reader and I cry for perfection ...
PS: I have yet to test the south ... but I need not impractical ... I will tell you

Nothing to add, view forums, instructions on site rolandus.com and opinions below ...

Two dtails missing when they could welcome t:
_ Single click, you have to work with a box if you want to rate lock to the tempo prcis.
_ Impossibility to send to a sentence between SPECIFICATIONS, which could be very practical. For example you plug in his guitar and microphone Inst Mic, and in multiplayer mode you can record the microphone on the guitar and a sentence on the sentence without asking two questions, whereas you have to turn volume buttons manually between shots so that there is no guitar on the song and no song on the guitar ...

Anyway, a hand I do not see much that could have added this product (quatrime a track ...?). But even when j'enlve one point dtail forgotten because a cot would not Roland.

Lots of nice little functions are plutt (fade out in Settings, dparts simultaneously, one shot, overdub modes ...)

UTILIZATION

The configuration is far from being empty, but it's all fawns a complex machine, would not have been able to be so simple.

Loop Quantize functions and Loop Sync is trs INTERESTED, but we need to exploit opportunities REALLY long and thorough reading of the manual, to assimilate the concepts of Fully Tempo Sync and Loop Sync, in multi particulirement.
But once well paramtr the RC-50 can not be sr crash.

Lack a lightweight who is not a tragedy but it shows that the machine is not over: APRS recording a track with tempo sync enabled (or Loop Sync mode if the Premire track record - I told you that n'tait not empty), the device automatically calculates the tempo gnral based on the time interval between the beginners and the end of the recording. The LED flashes the tempo pedals gnral this tempo, but fall any time o. Must arrter all tracks and boost for the first time (red) is in fact the first recorded time and the other (green) are well in sync with the sound. This is not a problem in 99% of cases, but by imagining that cre sound tracks with a hard tempo suivable (ie an agreement of 10 seconds), t have a practice of able to rely on diodes in order to launch the percussion track on the stack when the agreement is played. L must all arrter and restart, it's a shame.
The only solution is either to the guide, either before rgler tempo and well follow by watching the First Prev diodes ds recording (when in the previous example, there has been agreed 10 seconds).

There's someone there who understood the problem ...?

Voil is a tiny little dtail, but not so insignificant as me dj gn once, and would really not complicated to program t is the first time is Dfine when you press the pedals Play / Rec / Overdub for stopping the recording.

But as Manir gnrale I find how to use this damn contraption trs well, I put 8. And the complexity of the manual is not a problem for me, I love to take the head of the manuals!

SOUND QUALITY

The sound ...

When the tempo does not change with tempo sync, the sound is perfect. 44 kHz, 24 bit, super quality. The pramp microphone is good.

The white, some track speak for beginners is nonexistent with the update. With this update, we wonder why they left the possibility to stay in "Rhythm priority", I do not see why anyone would want a white beginners reading. It's true that we tend loop To check if jou has rhythm, but of all fawns would be glad at least some time on what you just recorded (for v Rifi, precisely), this only served white nothing.
The white can still exist when the function Loop Quantize is active, but it's because we shall adopt gnral recording APRS some time. If is stopped at the right time, no pb.

HOWEVER:

ds it is time-stretch, then l. .. 0
From 0.5 bpm of diffrence, the sound is unusable, but really. And even if we say we do not want to use the Time Stretch, may play tricks on us, like when you forget to disable the tempo sync mode single. All tracks are going to want to play exactly the same tempo (while all fawns had little prs jou to the same tempo), and thus the RC-50 is going to screw up the sound.
has also poses a problem with MIDI. When the RC-50 follows the clock that sent him, he tends to turn a bit around the true tempo, but never exactly on it. would not pose a problem if the Time Stretch worked, but messes up the sound.

Moreover, in the RC-50 MIDI has a hard follow tempo changes that he sends, but a hand, I still find that MIDI does not work so poorly in some cases (I not say it's great, but a password). O matre mode when the tempo is fixed, may help. Otherwise, forget it.

Good but just for the Time Stretch rotten, I put 5.
Without time stretch I put 10, but it serves them.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it only for a week, but we can say that I spent a week on it.
To use that I want to do is say recording acoustic instruments with no MIDI device, or tempo change, it suits me perfectly. I actually had an enjoyable surprise trs by learning to use it, it has a lot of cache dtails INTERESTED trs.
I can save my string quartets live register a battery and a low and run while I improvise, sing a chorus voices alone 4 a few pressures up ... Great possibilities, I think I'll write pieces made to be jous using an RC-50. I hte to see what I can do in concert.

This is the first looper I use.

The report qualitprix is ​​what it is, I got it for 349 euros including shipping costs on ComeBack music. By the way: those who sell, discontinue trying to put 350 euros, which would buy a used aircraft more expensive than new? (Well I say is, I saw one sell 370 euro not including shipping on eBay). 349 euros is not given but it is a big machine when same. At that price it would have to be perfect, but ...

So conclusion: do not use the MIDI and knowing how to be sr rgler not make me have the time stretch, this unit delights me. I do it again this choice, the only other multi-loopers are much more expensive.

But as Boss has not kept his promise and that he committed a few blunders and standard error (Time Stretch), I do that 7. I could have less, but I can not, even when I'm really happy ...

Everything is already amply detailed.

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is relatively simple, however, it is essential to read the user manual.

SOUND QUALITY

Very good in general. Cons should be avoided by changing the tempo of the patches created.

THERE IS NO WHITE early in the loop when used correctly.
All the moaners on this point have the right to challenge before accusing the gear. it is a false problem only to the use. it is not a magic box that guesses what you want to do, so you must be a minimum square to make it sound!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months. it's really an excellent new product, my favorite is the three separate loops that can exceed the pure principle of loops by adding breaks etc..

I would definitely do it again this choice

- What are the effects or types of effects available?
there's no effect. loopstation.a is used to make a loop.

- What technology is used? (Analog, numrique, lamp ...
Digital

UTILIZATION

The config is very simple ... not need the manual to understand how it works.

SOUND QUALITY

There's a good story latency for the first loop: be careful that your loop does not shift its just arrived slightly retard.mais sincerely live it any good comes zicos adapter.il suufit to replay the first note of the loop and it does not s'endend ... I know I use it all the time to live!
it's true that good shit is roland indeniable.ceci being for those who do not use the sync midi.l 'update resolves this worry (test!).
the sound is good (I use it with my bass over a condenser microphone (yes There's a phantom power supply
INTEGRATED) for percussion and didgeridoo.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for live output (I forget).
I appreciate the three sentences that are synchronized or not (and it's deadly plans of room).
before I had the rc 20.dja level quality sound no picture! the possibilities are imcomparables.la rc 50 is much more complete.
The quality price ratio, especially now, is very bon.faut stop messing around that price was what the people expect criticism.
I repeat the MIDI sync is unusable (so if you're looking for ... buy something else.).
I would do the same choice because there's nothing that's worth on the market at the same price!

See more advice and site boss.

UTILIZATION

Everything is perfect!

SOUND QUALITY

1) Stop with this story latency!
does not exist.

I encourage everyone to take a look under the heading tips or explain how.

NO UPDATE OR ANYTHING!

2) I saw a lot of people think that when you adopt the 3 loop, the clik stop too and it is impossible to do otherwise!

That's true but there is a solution!

Suppose you want to send the clik drummer, a headphone or other and the loop in your amp:

a) Send clik on "Sub Out" and loop "Hand Out"

b) Connect an expression pedal to the input of EXP RC50 and assigned him the volume control of one of three boucles.exemple: the # 1

c) Now rotate your 3 loop with the clik that goes in the back of the drummer. stop the loop 2 and 3 instead of # 1 stop down the volume thanks to the pedal ... The MIRACLE clik continue to play!

Level of sound quality no worries, but if you put the effects before and there is a slight hiss, it will be amplified as double registration. Obviously the more you overdub more you hear this breath. So you have to think to send the signals as clean as possible.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for three years with a bass, synths, loops, Reason, and sometimes a microphone singing.

Quality / price excellent! I do not see the benefits of investing in the rack looper extremely expensive ...

All that is regrettable is the absence of a memory card slot to expand memory! (Simple commercial reason I think they include it in the next version and everyone will resell the RC50 to buy the new version!)

Everything has already repeatedly said t ....

UTILIZATION

It takes a little time to get the bte, in all it is relatively intuitive.
Manuel with many redundancies ...

SOUND QUALITY

The sound you are playing is the sound that the machine reproduced, no worries of the cot.
J still emits a reserve on the single mode, because my sound is distorted when I play without the guide. A fault of my machine?

OVERALL OPINION

I used the last two weeks, what I like is the ability to play three different sentences to make a "real" piece in the web. I do it again this choice without hesitation, using not n the south that it seems a few rats, and despite two or three errors in the design of the machine.