IF, and that's a huge if, I was going to play live again. I would absolutely play WAV files from a tablet and play whatever instrument the song calls for me to play along with it. If you build your sound files correctly, there is no need to play them back in RB. Do your mixing at home. I have had people tell me "Oh, the room changes the sound" and all that yada yada, but no, it doesn't change it enough to matter. This isn't Red Rocks or Hollywood Bowl you are playing with your solo or duo glorified karaoke show, right?

One argument to that is that someone makes a request and you have to scratchpad it out on the fly. Not an issue for me. Unless they are delivering that request in a Masarati to the home they just bought me, Eddie don' do no requests. Eddie will do 85% original music, 15% old classic country covers. (I Fall To Pieces, in a medley with I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You that I call "I Can't Help It If I Still Fall To Pieces", Cold Cold Heart, Old Flames and Old Habits connected, titled "Old Flaming Habits". And oh yes, my CDs are for sale over to my right. I'll even sign the cover for you!

I DO like that idea of using the loop pedal to record, but I wonder about at what level of fidelity it records. Have you actually done this, Pat? Does it sound as good as high sample rate WAV files? I will have to follow your link and read up on that. Besides it's an opportunity to buy a new toy.

Edit: I just did a quick scan of the specs and it appears to use an SD card for storage, so logic says I could record in my studio, dump to an SD, stick that SD in the Looper and just play back data that I know has the fidelity of what I recorded, and just use it as a dedicated playback device. That's kind of what you described. In fact that's exactly what you described. So, the next step in the logic path is whether I would invest $250 for something that would be used as a playback tool, but for nothing else (at least to me), or just use the iPad I already have. Not a level playing field though because everybody has different stuff, methods, and specific end game. As it is I will have days of experimenting and learning how to use the Boss VE-2 harmonizer I just bought to sing harmony for me.

Last edited by eddie1261; 12/15/18 07:17 AM.