The mission and I damn sure accept it is to extract whatever may be possible of the software from the Boss RC-50 looper which has been dying a slow but hopefully painless death over the last five or six months. Multiple things weren't working quite properly but the base record / loop function was still live. It still is but the ancillary processes have been breaking down and now seem to be making a good show of passing into vapor.
Please do consider some latitude for the device as I bounced it off the road in a scooter crash in Nice. That it only breaks now isn't so much a drag as a miracle it's lasted this long.
The plan of attack seems solid and I'm figuring the LED to show system parameters has one more shot at life and I can't plan on another one after that because it wasn't working at all when I shut it down. If the LED does not work the fallback plan is to count button pushes to get to the part of the menu which connects it to the computer and I will know there's success if an icon pops up on my desktop via the USB connection from the looper. From that point forward, I own it and can get everything I want from it, the trick is getting to that point.
Note: this is not theft as the recovery is for loops I have recorded on it. Sure I should have done it previously ... but I didn't and so it goes.
There's reasonable optimism this will work and the slowdown is finding the one USB cable which is long enough to reach.
The search begins again ... NOW
Update: finally. The cable is found ... but it can't be used. I could not find it because it's already in use ... to connect the audio mixer to the computer. Such cables are peanuts so this will get a Wal-Mart solution and that will work just fine.
Next update is when the cable is in my hand, hopefully today and possibly in minutes because I have to go to market and that was much more romantic in Europe when I was going to see friends at the little market a kilometer down the road. It's not quite the same with Wal-Mart (sob) but they have the produce so that's where I go.
Please do consider some latitude for the device as I bounced it off the road in a scooter crash in Nice. That it only breaks now isn't so much a drag as a miracle it's lasted this long.
The plan of attack seems solid and I'm figuring the LED to show system parameters has one more shot at life and I can't plan on another one after that because it wasn't working at all when I shut it down. If the LED does not work the fallback plan is to count button pushes to get to the part of the menu which connects it to the computer and I will know there's success if an icon pops up on my desktop via the USB connection from the looper. From that point forward, I own it and can get everything I want from it, the trick is getting to that point.
Note: this is not theft as the recovery is for loops I have recorded on it. Sure I should have done it previously ... but I didn't and so it goes.
There's reasonable optimism this will work and the slowdown is finding the one USB cable which is long enough to reach.
The search begins again ... NOW
Update: finally. The cable is found ... but it can't be used. I could not find it because it's already in use ... to connect the audio mixer to the computer. Such cables are peanuts so this will get a Wal-Mart solution and that will work just fine.
Next update is when the cable is in my hand, hopefully today and possibly in minutes because I have to go to market and that was much more romantic in Europe when I was going to see friends at the little market a kilometer down the road. It's not quite the same with Wal-Mart (sob) but they have the produce so that's where I go.
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