Is this configuration possible with the Boss RC500 and an FS7?

RC500:

FS1: Track 1

FS2: Track 2

FS3: Undo/Redo

FS7:

A: Stop (Hold: Clear)

B: Rec, Play, Dub

So is this possible n and what's your opinion on this and what would you do differently?

Hi! I want to build multiple layers of a 2-bar loop first, and then extend that loop layer when I play the main melodic theme .

When using the Ditto+'s Extended Loop Mode, can I defer extending the loop later, after recording multiple layers? Or does the second layer always dictate the final fixed length of the loop?

If Ditto+ cannot handle what I need, is there a compact looper pedal that can?

I want to buy a loop station…I’d like to hear from some experienced one man loop experts on what to buy…I’m an acoustic singer/songwriter…

Thank you…please be specific…

Hi,

As the title says, I’m looking for some good budget friendly (under 100$) IEMS for live looping.
I use multiple instruments and stack vocals with a Boss RC 505. MK2. I play different styles of music based on the events I’m attending.

I mostly play alone, occasionally with other musicians.

I’m looking for a place to start as I don’t have the budget to try multiple IEMs right now.

Preferably something that’s clear and well balanced.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, Raphaël here, the developer of Everyday Looper :) !

Some of you might remember the original from the early App Store days (2009!). Over the years I kept getting messages from singers, beatboxers, and loop artists in general who never let go of it, and that convinced me to get back to work. So I've rebuilt it from the ground up for today's iPhones and iPads, and the beta is now open :D !

What's in this version:

• 8 tracks you touch directly to mix, mute, merge, overdub, and more
• Pretty decent echo cancellation, so you can actually loop through the speaker without headphones
• Synced video capture of the take, straight from the app
• Per track 10-level undo/redo, speed/reverse, and adaptive track lengths

The demo is by Ty Suite, a long-time Everyday Looper user. It was performed, recorded, and filmed entirely inside the beta on an iPhone, through the speaker, with no headphones.

You can test it here (free beta, iOS 17.7+):

https://testflight.apple.com/join/pz5ArsEg

I'd especially love feedback from people used to live looping: does the workflow feel immediate, what gets in the way, and what would you need before using something like this for a real performance?

Happy to answer any questions here. Cheers !

Ciao colleghi musicisti di strada! Volevo solo condividere un piccolo estratto della mia recente esibizione dal vivo all'"ai300scalini" di Bologna. Sto suonando lo standard jazz di John Coltrane "My One and Only Love" contemporaneamente con una chitarra-pianoforte ibrida a 14 corde personalizzata e una batteria a pedale. Ci è voluto molto esercizio per coordinare il tutto, ma la risposta del pubblico a questo arrangiamento è stata incredibile. Mi piacerebbe sapere cosa ne pensate della configurazione o del mix! Un saluto dall'Italia 🇮🇹

Looper setup proved to be quite workable, certainly will do more of it now!

Hi! I'd really appreciate your advice because I think I'm looking for a pretty unusual setup.

I'm a pianist/keyboard player, not a producer or a DJ. I own a Yamaha Reface CP, which I absolutely love, but I'd like to expand it with basses, drums, pads and a few other sounds.

My goal is to perform completely live as a one-man band. I want to play every part myself—drums, bass, chords, melodies and solos—and build songs layer by layer during the performance.

The important part is this: I'm not looking for a production workflow. I don't want to program patterns, edit MIDI, or build songs like in a DAW. If something is looping, it's because I just played it.

Ideally, I'd like to:

• select a bass sound,
• play the bass live,
• capture that exact performance as a loop,
• switch to another instrument,
• play the next layer,
• and continue building the song until I finish with a live solo.

In other words, I want to preserve my actual performance (timing, dynamics and feel), not just record MIDI notes that can later be edited or replayed differently.

I'd also like a compact, battery-powered device that:

• works well with an external MIDI keyboard (my Reface CP),
• provides a good selection of instruments (especially basses, drums, pads and synth leads),
• lets me prepare projects for each song in advance,
• allows me to switch quickly between those sounds during a performance,
• is designed more for playing than for music production.

At first I thought I needed a sound module together with a Boss RC-505/RC-202. But now I'm wondering whether something like the Yamaha SEQTRAK, Novation Circuit Tracks, or the new Akai MPC Sample could replace both in a simpler, more portable setup.

If you were building this kind of live rig today, what would you recommend and why? Is there another device I should seriously consider?

I'd especially love to hear from someone who actually performs this way rather than produces music in the studio.

Title asks the question - if you're not using some kind of MIDI clock signal, how do you stay in time when playing with others, especially when the people you play with loop themselves or use drum machines/DAWs? I've never been able to get accurate enough that it isn't noticeably out of time after several repeats.

Image is semi-related. I play in a improv electronic group, I'm not sure we do enough looping to fit in this sub really but we do a bit. I use Ableton (looping, effects, MIDI instruments), other dude uses an old Roland sequencer (percussion mostly) but his laptop - which he used to loop his guitar - has recently died and we're trying to find a replacement that we can afford.

Finding a loop pedal that takes a MIDI clock signal is proving to be more challenging than we expected, so how do yous all do it?

my first comission

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Please tell me, is it possible to somehow configure the recording parameters on this looper (boss rc 505 mkII) so that such a click does not occur?

I am a music producer who has been making beats, recording, producing for the more than 13 years and i have been working on making my own Looper centric DAW.

Through the years i have used many DAW including Fl Studio (3 years), Maschine (5 years), Reaper (4 years) and since have been using Cubase as my main DAW with that said i always feel something is missing in terms of looping. it never really friendly to loop on your computer while still having a sense of control and not needing to hit those mute, plugin bypass, or rec perfectly with your mouse at the right time while holding a guitar.

My goal was simply to build something that makes it easy to loop on your computer without needing to do complicated MIDI (Although midi mapping is available), i wanted this DAW to feel like a software version of the Boss rc-505 and i think i have made that.

The core idea here is that everything runs on a scene(s), think of a scene as 1 Boss rc-505 unit BUT you get to have an unlimited number of tracks including MIDI (VST3 Support), Audio, Midi CTRL, and a dedicated guitar track with a "Pedalboard" more on that later

Each track can have its own numbers of bars, maybe your guitar track is 4 bars, but your drum track is 8 bars, this means the guitar track will loop twice in a full scene cycle then the scene loops and the cycle repeats.

What is different here ?

Most settings can be synchronized to the tempo, muting/soling a track, activating a master FX, recording a loop, random mode quantize

1 Audio track can stack multiple take and play them together, you can choose per track if recording overwrites the original take or stack, and during performance even deleting a take can be synchronized on tempo

Guitar Track, this is simply an audio track that automatically monitors the track but also open an "instrument" plugin called Pedalboard, this is simply a container that can be run serial, split, parallel and allow you to put any VST3 plugins you would want in your guitar chain, i also have my own amp plugin and have a native NAM plugin to allow loading your own sounds (my amp support IR loading) plus a good amount already on guitar effect like in house plugins.

I don't know yet what i want to do with this, but i guess i am ready to finally start sharing i am missing a lot of features here is a rundown of where i am right now :

Looping & Transport

- Play / Pause / Stop — pause freezes in place and resumes from the same spot

- Tempo — set BPM; while playing, a change queues and lands on the next loop

- Tempo re-cut — clips re-fit the new grid (MIDI rescaled, audio re-cut, no time-stretch for now)

- Per-track loop engine — each track loops its active-scene clip to the scene length

Scenes

- Multiple scenes (song sections) — each a full set of per-track clips 

- Quantized launch — engages on the next loop boundary (instant when stopped)

- Add / duplicate / reorder — copies clips, takes & automation

- Timeline view of all scenes

- Move/copy clips between scenes

- Per-scene automation curves

Tracks & Routing

- Four track types — Audio, MIDI, Guitar, MIDI-Control (PC/CC)

- Guitar-track preset — audio track + pedalboard + armed monitoring in one click

- Groups & FX-return buses

- Sends + group routing (post-fader)

- Direct hardware output pairs (cue / in-ear mixes)

- Master bus — linked L/R faders

- Move / reorder inserts (bypass rides along)

- Stack-safe pan law (unity at centre)

Recording

- Audio & MIDI loop recording (mono/stereo, choose input channel)

- Quantized punch-in (next bar or loop start)

- Silent count-in bar with the metronome when arming from stop

- Record all armed tracks at once

- Loop-length capture — takes complete exactly on the boundary

- Punch-out on the bar, keeping what's recorded

- Take layers (overdub stacked takes, or replace newest)

- MIDI anticipation — early notes snap onto the downbeat

- Auto-quantize + humanize on capture

- Latency compensation with manual trim

Mixing & Automation

- Faders + centre-detented pan (live drag, committed on release)

- Quantized mute / solo (solo restores prior mutes)

- Randomize — shuffle the loop's bars in X-bar chunks

- Volume / pan automation (per-scene, loops with the clip)

- Plugin-parameter automation (built-in or VST3)

- Bypass automation

- Quantize / swing / humanize

- VU metering on tracks, groups, master (resettable peak hold)

MIDI

- Hardware MIDI in with per-track source filtering

- MIDI out to outboard gear, per track

- Live thru — incoming notes drive the instrument in real time (even stopped)

- Piano-roll editing (velocity lane)

- MIDI-Control tracks — sequence PC/CC to hardware

- All-notes-off safety on stop/pause

Timeline & Editing

- Trim & resize (trim to bars; grow/shrink bar count in edit mode)

- Fades (drag length + curve shape)

- Play regions (non-destructive start/end gate)

- Timeline automation lanes (inline points, resize height)

- Drag-to-import (onto a lane, or below to make a new track)

- Reorder tracks + cursor-anchored zoom

Built-in Effects (15)

- EQ — 6-band parametric, draggable nodes, live spectrum, dynamic side-chained bands

- Tube Comp — vari-mu tube compressor + gain-reduction VU

- Saturator — multiband (1–4) drive with transient-only mode

- Amp — 3-voice amp sim, tone stack, cab models + user IR

- NAM — Neural Amp Modeler (loads .nam + cab IR)

- Filter — DJ one-knob LP/HP sweep

- Delay — Modern/Vintage/Diffusion, tempo-sync, tape glide, ping-pong

- Reverb · Chorus · Phaser · Pitch (±12 + detune) · Tremolo · Wah · Overdrive · Distortion

Instruments (2)

- Step Sampler — 16-sound step-sequencer drum sampler; the grid is the scene's MIDI clip, per-sound gain + swing

- Slicer Sampler — load a clip, slice by beat-grid / transient / manual cuts, chromatic slice→key, hold/one-shot, mono choke, test keyboard

Pedalboard & Master FX

- Pedalboard — 8 slots, serial/parallel/split routing, per-path inputs, any built-in or VST3

- Master FX rack — 5-slot pre-master chain, per-slot on/off synced to the timeline, auto-engaging & click-free

- Slot workflow — drag between slots, right-click bypass/move/replace/remove

Plugin Hosting

- VST3 host — one instrument + an effects chain per track

- Built-ins are first-class (same rack/automation/persistence path as VST3)

- Per-plugin presets (full state)

- External side-chain (per-band on the EQ)

- Plugin-delay compensation (looper read-ahead)

- Floating editor windows that survive rebuilds

Browsers & Editors

- Sample browser — folders, recursive search, audition + waveform, drag to timeline

- Plugin browser — scan VST3 w/ progress, search, instrument/effect tabs, show/hide

- Piano-roll / Automation / Audio-clip editors (floating)

Projects & Files

- Save / Save As (folder becomes a self-contained project)

- Autosave + discard-changes-on-exit

- Undo / redo of clip & MIDI edits

- Non-destructive media (24-bit WAV + .mid, never overwritten)

- Scene bounce to WAV

- Plugin chains, knob states, device settings all persist

Interface & System

- "Queued blinks, active is solid" convention across mute/solo/rec/random/scenes/Master FX

- Metronome (beep/tick/wood, level, dedicated output)

- Streaming mode (mirror master to a spare output pair)

- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts

- Quantize panel with a live one-bar preview

- Settings (track defaults, audio device, streaming)

- Startup splash with a live progress bar

- DSP / RAM / xrun meters

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Dear BOSS Development Team,

First of all, thank you for creating the RC-600. It has become the center of my live performance setup.

After spending a considerable amount of time experimenting with MIDI control, I found one limitation that could be solved very easily with a firmware update.

Currently, the RC-600 allows assigning Tap Tempo to external controllers. However, when the RC-600 is synchronized to an external MIDI Clock, Tap Tempo is no longer available, which is understandable.

A much simpler and more flexible solution would be to add two new Assign Targets:

Tempo Increase

Tempo Decrease

This would allow performers to adjust the tempo gradually during a performance using any external footswitch (such as the BOSS FS-1-WL or FS-7) without relying on Tap Tempo.

This feature would be extremely useful for live musicians who need subtle tempo adjustments while looping.

I believe this addition would greatly improve the RC-600 without changing its existing MIDI implementation.

Thank you for your consideration, and thank you for continuing to support the RC-600 through firmware updates.

Best regards,

Are 10-minute music videos still relevant ?

I'm a casual musician myself. It's a simple utility app to create loops from the Apple Music songs (requires Apple Music subscription) [https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/songloops/id6760127784](https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/songloops/id6760127784))

Very easy, just mark a start and end and the app will loop it infinitely ♾️ as an accompaniment practice. It's free to download and get start with a loop, or a one time purchase if you need to make multiple saved loops.

Disclaimer: i'm the creator of the app, would love to hear your feedbacks. Unfortunately, I couldn't make the Spotify version because the sdk doesn't support such integration deeply.

We review the popular STRICH Stereo Looper with Built-in Drum Machine. This budget stereo looper pedal could be a great tool for musicians who require a creative practice tool.

Hasn’t been used in about a year, cables aren’t faulty

For more than a year, I have been getting desperate trying to make my Roland/Boss RC-600 sync properly to my external MIDI clock. My master clock comes from a Launchpad Pro MK3, which feeds into a Miditech MIDI Thru 7 splitter to sync all of my gear. Every single synthesizer in my setup works flawlessly—except for the RC-600.

Recording Track 1 works fine with the external MIDI clock. But as soon as I record Track 2, the audio is plagued by artifacts, glitches, and stuttering. It is completely unusable. For over a year, Thomann and Boss/Roland support kept telling me the same thing: "Your external MIDI clock signal must be unstable."

So, I decided to end the guessing game. I connected my Rigol laboratory oscilloscope, logged the MIDI clock data, and used an AI-assisted Python script to analyze the exact timing of the incoming signal.

The Result: Out of over 280,000 recorded MIDI clock edges, the standard deviation (jitter) was an astonishing 0.0018 ms (1.8 microseconds)! Given that 1–2 ms of jitter is considered perfectly acceptable for MIDI, my external clock is literally running with reference-class precision.

But I didn't stop there. To put the final nail in the coffin, I eliminated the "MIDI scapegoat" entirely:

1. I completely disconnected the MIDI cable from the RC-600.
2. I factory-reset the device to ensure absolute stock behavior.
3. I recorded a clean loop on Track 1 at internal 120.0 BPM and saved it.
4. I changed the memory slot forward and back to reload the saved loop freshly.
5. I recorded onto Track 2—and the moment I pressed play, the internal BPM display suddenly jumped from 120.0 BPM down to 80.3 BPM!
6. I repeated the exact same test: This time, the internal clock randomly jumped from 120.0 BPM to 120.4 BPM.

This happens completely WITHOUT any external MIDI clock connected. The RC-600's internal buffer management and time-stretching algorithms are fundamentally broken on the secondary tracks.

I have fully documented this mess, uploaded the videos of the behavior, and even provided my raw CSV oscilloscope files from my Launchpad Pro MK3 midi-clock as it arrived on the RC-600 (which I was told it would have a bad quality - but every other device works properly).

You can check out the full thread (and use Google Translate) here:
https://www.musiker-board.de/threads/boss-rc-600-midi-sync-probleme.763953/page-3#post-9985117

Luckily, I officially reported this defect to my dealer (Thomann) before my warranty expired in late 2025. Now that the hardware and external clock are scientifically proven to be flawless, they either need to provide a working firmware or give me a full refund for one of the worst-coded devices I have ever wrestled with.
Nice hardare - but too many firmware issues.

Has anyone else noticed this exact internal BPM-drop behavior on Track 2?
Or audio-jitter, when using an external midi-clock?
Might my device be broken?

i used kite studio pro for the software for anyone wondering!