Headrush have announced an Firmware 2.0 update for Looperboard providing users with endless looping times, customisable footswitches, auto vocal harmony and tuning, auto bpm detection, a new enhanced user interface.
Backed by extensive feedback and testing from HeadRush’s looping community, and harnessing the Looperboard’s class-leading, powerful quad-core DSP, this update redefines conventional standards for loopers. Now users can connect external USB or SD drives for virtually endless looping times and customise Looperboard’s footswitches to their own preference, plus add rhythmic DJ-style effects and much more.
The Looperboard is the first looper to feature a large 7-inch screen with a smart-touch interface, displaying all of the dynamic feedback the modern loop artist demands. Every tool a looper needs is here, removing the need for any extra devices – 12 backlit RGB footswitches, class-leading 32-bit floating 48kHz audio, over 40 included FX, custom audio routing (including the onboard click track), and tap tempo with intelligent time-stretch.
Firmware 2.0 adds virtually endless looping times and backing tracks to Looperboard’s already impressive spec. Simply connect a hard drive or SD card to Looperboard’s USB / SD inputs to expand playback and looping times beyond anything currently available on the looping pedal market. Looping time is only limited bythe size of your hard drive!
Looperboard’s on-board, studio-quality FX guarantee guitars, vocals and keyboards sound their best. Firmware 2.0 adds new FX including Vocal Harmony and Tuning. Now users can adjust their voice to any tuning in realtime, or add thick, layered harmonies at the tap of a footswitch.
Other new effects include:
• Slicer – Chops up the sound in a pre-selected rhythmic pattern
• Pumper – Creates a rhythmic pumping effect, similar to that of sidechain compression
• LFO-Sync – Creates filter sweeps using a pre-selected time division of the tempo
Advanced audio manipulation tools have also been added. Auto-BPM Detection keeps users perfectly in time when recording a loop – particularly useful when importing audio (.wav or .mp3) to a loop track or adding a backing track that is a different tempo than the current session. Looperboard’s non-destructive time-stretch will match any imported audio perfectly, without altering the pitch or sound quality. For compete personalisation, Looperboard Firmware 2.0 also allows users to customise the top four Start/Stop footswitches as shortcuts to any feature—an unprecedented degree of personalisation for looping pedals.
Rounding out the feature set in Looperboard Firmware 2.0 is an all-new UI layout. Navigating pages is now even easier with a new icon-based menu screen, a new FX section layout and an incredible new mixer screen with on-screen explanations of features and looper modes.