It does look interesting, will see how people who get one from this forum use it, i might get one as well since it looks and sounds interesting.
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Just got mine in the mail today, it took forever but itās a bad time of year for shipping stuff so whatever. It ships without a battery which is pretty wild considering itās not a common battery to have on hand. Build quality seems good, no reservations at all about putting it in a pocket but I wouldnāt want it in a back pocket or something where you could accidentally sit on it. I donāt think I would know this is made of legos if I wasnāt told that. I donāt trust the way you have to physically bend the pcb to insert a battery and Iām not sure how long it will last.
I messed with it for like 20 minutes and itās pretty intuitive to get something simple going after just reading the manual a few times over the last few weeks. I need more time to fully grasp it and then Iāll post some sound clips if people are still interested.
One super crazy missing feature is that thereās no way to copy and paste, not individual steps or patterns. Every other version of nanoloop Iāve used had a way to do this and it didnāt occur to me to make sure you could do this before I bought it. I guess in some ways this forces you to use your ears but it seems really annoying especially without a screen. Maybe itās coming in a future release.
Iāll probably mess with this most of the day tomorrow since Iām off work for the holidays so Iāll try to post an update.
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That is wild, Iām a huge nanoloop fan and that is one of the critical core features in the workflow.
I want to support this new device but Iām still feeling so burned after backing the original nanoloop device, waiting for so long only to receive a faulty unit which clearly hadnāt been tested, then being shipped ANOTHER faulty unitā¦ā¦ and then finally receiving a third working unit after monthsā¦. only to have development completely abandoned and the website scrubbed of any info on it.
Also, nanoloop mono has been scrubbed from the site! Why doesnāt he leave it with the manual and the firmware up for legacy support reasons at least? You can access it by typing in the address manually but that is really no good.
No hate Oliver, but please keep supporting this device and Iāll jump back on board!
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I agree that the situation is extremely controversial, but it seems to me that Oliver, while developing this device, made all the mistakes that he could make due to his inexperience, which is why everything turned out the way it did.
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I have the same reservations around it as you do, nanoloop fm is basically abandonware. Nanoloop mono is the coolest nanoloop imo and I get it if he doesnāt want to make it anymore but not hosting the manual is lame.
Iām going to reserve any final judgements on the copy/paste thing untill Iāve actually used it to make a full song or two but itās a pretty shocking omission.
i was just curious, it looks like they are hosting the manual nanoloop mono manual
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I think I misread the comment I was replying to and itās still hosted there but not listed as a product
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Ok, Iāve been playing with this more and it is possible to copy and paste steps in a really limited way, itās just not documented in the manual, unless I missed it. If you turn a note on and off in the pitch menu it becomes the new default note for any new notes you put down. Not sure if thereās a way to copy patterns but Iāll keep poking around.
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It can definitely copy and paste patterns too, I had a misunderstanding of what the āsnapshotsā were used for. You can save a snapshot of a currently playing pattern to a new pattern. Serves me right for assuming it would come up if I ctrl+fād the manual for ācopyā.
The manual is kind of confusing but I can tell this thing is going to be a muscle memory monster after a few more hours of using it. Iām already flying through all of the sound design menus.
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Congratulations! Iām glad the tool works as expected.
I have a few questions for you:
How loud is the volume? Have you tried listening at high volume? What are your impressions of the sound quality?
Thanks for your answers.
The volume gets just slightly above too loud for headphones if you push everything. The headroom seems to be on the low end and the volume control is doing saturation and distortion stuff. I havenāt had a chance to try running it through my mixer yet.
The sound quality is pretty much what youād expect for nanoloop stuff, itās lofi and a bit muddy sounding, but charming. Itās too early for me to say for sure but the noise channel is initially kind of bad sounding to me, the other 3 channels all sound good and useable.
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CR2032 is not a common battery? Probably one of the most used at least in my house
Iāve only ever bought one at a time to put in watches and they last years in that use case. Iāve never had modern music gear that uses one though I think I had some 90ās drum machines that used them for the memory.
Hey hey. I have the q, I couldnāt resist!
Does anyone else have the bug where meta components donāt apply on some patterns using channel 1?
Also, does anyone have any idea how to do audio backup/restore?
Cheers