Boss Audio Systems RC50 - Manuals

Page 2 - About the RC-50 Workshop Series; Manual; About This Booklet; Background Information; The Guide and Loop Quantize; Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet; Hot Links

About the RC-50 Workshop Series The BOSS RC-50 Loop Station sets a new standard for performance loopers. With 49 minutes of mono recording time (or 24 minutes in stereo), onboard storage for up to 297 phrases, and massive realtime control, the RC-50 is a powerful realtime performance tool. While loo...

Page 3 - Setting the Tempo

About the Guide The RC-50’s built-in guide provides a rhythmic backing for you to play with while you’re recording and playing phrases. The guide offers many different patterns in various time signatures and musical styles, with high-quality audio using sampled drum and percussion sounds. In additio...

Page 4 - Tap Tempo; Adjusting Guide Parameters; Guide Parameters; Here’s an overview of the guide parameters.

Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to the desired value.When you’re finished, press EXIT. The lights on the TAP TEMPO button and TEMPO pedal flash in different colors along with the patch tempo, with red indicating the first beat—or “downbeat”—of each measure, and green indicating all other beats. Tap Tempo ...

Page 5 - About Loop Quantize; what

5 Guide:Play Count —When Guide:Play Count is set to 1MEAS, a one- measure count-in plays prior to playback when phrase playback is started with the REC/PLAY/OVERDUB pedal. (The OFF setting disables the count-in.) The count-in level is determined by the GUIDE LEVEL knob. No count-in plays when the RC...

Page 6 - The Benefit of Loop Quantize; exactly; Measuring Measure Length; actual length; O O O

The Benefit of Loop Quantize To better understand how Loop Quantize aids in phrase recording, let’s take a look at how one typically records phrases on the RC-50. When the guide’s off and you’re recording a Single mode phrase, you usually have one primary concern: closing the phrase so it loops smoo...

Page 7 - Loop Quantize in Action; Nuts and Bolts; Recording

There’s no on/off switch for Loop Quantize—it’s automatically enabled when you’re recording to one of the following references: The guide.A phrase whose Tempo Sync switch is on.The phrase that determines Loop Sync playback length.An external MIDI device that the RC-50 is slaved to. We’ll cover each ...

Page 8 - Short Phrases and the Minimum Recording Time; Reference; Loop Quantize and the Guide

When the phrase is closed with the REC/PLAY/OVERDUB pedal, Loop Quantize adjusts the phrase ending to the nearest adjustment point at the time the pedal is pressed (in our example, any second beat of one of the reference’s measures). Short Phrases and the Minimum Recording Time Before we move on, le...

Page 9 - Starting Recording on an Offbeat; Single mode; Multi mode

When you decide to close the phrase, press REC/PLAY/OVERDUB again. Loop Quantize automatically adjusts the phrase’s ending to the guide measure downbeat that’s nearest when the pedal is pressed. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Guide Phrase 1 Rec st...

Page 10 - Loop Quantize and Multi Mode; Loop Quantize is enabled during phrase recording when:

0 When you’re in Single mode and the patch’s Phrase Change mode is set to LOOP END, selecting a phrase for recording while another is playing puts it in a record standby state, and recording doesn’t actually begin until the current phrase ends. If the guide is on, this behavior ensures that all phra...

Page 11 - Two measures

Here’s an important thing to keep in mind: Turning on a phrase’s Tempo Sync switch will make it play at the current patch tempo. If you don’t want its playback speed changed from the way it was originally recorded—which you’ll probably find preferable in most circumstances—set the patch tempo to the...

Page 12 - overall length; Loop Quantize with External Sync; The End; and

Phrase 1 Loop Sync playback Phrase 2 Phrase 3 Silence CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC Silence CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC CCC Loop Sync only works with phrases that are set for looped playback. If you’re using Loop Sync to create a multi-phrase loop performance from a blank s...