BOSS Rc-505 Loop Station

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I loved the original model and the RC‑505 MkII is larger, more powerful and addresses almost every shortcoming. The BOSS Worldwide Social Network keeps you connected to the latest products, exciting events, and much more. Whenever a track is playing, hitting that same pad invokes overdub again, and if you make a mistake, it’s easy to undo or wipe the whole track ready to go again. Three stereo output pairs, a headphones output, and an output mixer are also available for musicians, complete with assignable routing options and master reverb and compressor effects.

Confusingly, there’s a hidden rule: even supposedly free recordings must be multiples of the first’s length. As is often the case, it’s still best not to stray too far from the recorded tempo, unless you enjoy the resulting warbles. It’s almost a decade since Boss gave us the RC‑505: a fresh take on looping based around five stereo tracks, effects, plenty of memory and reliable MIDI synchronisation. At the extremes the digital processing this involves becomes starkly audible, which may or may not be your bag, but shifts of around ±20bpm are handled with minimal degradation, depending on the source.I mentioned unusual loop lengths just now but I should clarify that polymetric recording is not as straightforward as the manual suggests. The Boss RC-505 Loop Station pairs the legendary looping power of the RC series with a tabletop, hands-friendly design allowing for singers, rappers, and beatboxers to get in the loop.

If you are approved for a credit limit with PayPal Credit and use it for future purchases, the APR for those purchases wont be more than 23. While this year's superb RC-1 Loop Station offers an entry level single button looper that will suite many players' needs, the RC-600 and RC-505mk II are flagship models for the serious loopers out there. Elevate your performances with five stereo tracks and four simultaneous Input FX and Track FX, and soar even further with customizable buttons, expanded I/O, increased mixing control, and other enhancements requested by long-time RC-505 users.

This is just as well, because this model can bounce down and consolidate tracks, and print effects, a feature that was probably high on many users’ wishlists. Ultimately, I loved the original model and the RC‑505 MkII is larger, more powerful and addresses almost every shortcoming. Each rhythm type includes four pattern variations with intros and endings, and automatic fills for transitions between. Most eye‑catchingly, its large buttons and tabletop format marked a clean break from pedals with small metal buttons and guitar fixations.

You can save to a different patch location during playback and therefore build fairly complex structures as you go. With the RC-505’s large selection of built-in effects, it’s easy to enhance your sounds as you perform. It’s even possible to customize the headphones output to monitor individual tracks and rhythm sounds. Electric performs bizarre shifting and formant operations, applying voice characteristics to any source, while Rise invokes a rising or falling resonant cascade, hinting at runaway delay feedback.

Six dedicated on/off buttons—three each for Input FX and Track FX—can be loaded with your favorite effects, while grab-and-go knobs let you tweak parameters such as filter cutoff and effect depth in real time.