{"id":28,"date":"2013-07-24T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicgearguru.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2019-04-15T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:38:05","slug":"boss-rc-30-tutorial-stop-your-loops-properly-with-simple-pedal-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"BOSS RC-30 Tutorial: Stop your loops on time with Simple Pedal Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignleft wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ML5zvWKooys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video has an interesting back-story where I learned a few lessons about corporations and politics. Some of you may be able to relate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember exactly how it came about, but I think a customer called about an issue where the RC-30 wouldn&#8217;t get the timing right if you ended a recording by hitting STOP instead of Play or Dub. I tested this and verified that yes, something odd is going on here and it&#8217;s causing loops to record a fraction longer than normal.<\/p>\n<p>I started the process of sending a bug-report which basically means I sent an email to the Product Manager describing the issue. He is the guy who actually communicates with the engineers in Japan and he passed it on. A day or two later we hear back that there was no bug, we were just using it wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Now, knowing how this machine works is my job so I had read the manual front-to-back, trying all the functions it described. Plus I answered tons of calls and emails on this thing and previous loopers like it, but I have never encountered a issue where a looper behaved this way.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how the message to Japan was worded (maybe it had a tone of extreme urgency and panic?), but it was conveyed to me that this sequence of events embarrassed us in the eyes of Japan because we &#8211; AKA me &#8211; sent a bug-report that just ended up showing that we didn&#8217;t know how our own product worked.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I missed something that wasn&#8217;t in the manual called Simple Pedal Mode. This feature was printed on a single loose sheet of paper that came in the box with the RC-30. They called it an &#8220;addendum&#8221; to the manual because by the time the books had all been printed, they either added the feature later or forgot to include it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>To rectify ourselves in the eyes of Japan, I was to send them a video showing the feature proving that I understood how it worked.&nbsp; This is that video. ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video has an interesting back-story where I learned a few lessons about corporations and politics. Some of you may be able to relate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[2,5,10,9,12,4,11,6],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicgearguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}