Owners Manual

TimeFactor User Guide Catchup
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Looper
The Looper provides 12 seconds of mono recording. Salient features are: loop recording in
seconds or beats, variable speed scrubbing during playback and dubbing (including reverse
playback and dubbing), seamless dubbing, and real-time adjustment of the loop starting
point and loop length.
If your TimeFactor is connected to a stereo source, the inputs are automatically summed and
the sum is the Looper’s input. The Looper’s output drives both outputs identically.
The Looper is controlled with the Footswitches while in Play Mode and also by the control
knobs. Remember, to use the Looper, TimeFactor must be in Play Mode.
The Looper can be in one of the following states:
Empty
Recording
Playing
Dubbing
Stopped
The Footswitches work as transport controls: Record

, Play  and Stop

.
The Footswitch LEDs indicate the current Looper status as follows:

LED – Lit orange when recording or dubbing.
 LED – Lit orange when playing or dubbing.

LED – Lit orange when stopped and not empty, OFF when empty.
Here’s what the Footswitches do in each of the Looper’s states:
Empty
When the Looper is first loaded, the loop is Empty, the Billboard displays [EMPTY] and the
Footswitches are used to:

– Press to Start Recording. If autoplay mode is selected [AP:LOOP], loop
playback will start when recording reaches the loop end.
 – No action.

– If Tempo is ON, and the

footswitch is pressed repeatedly, the Billboard
displays the updated Tempo in BPM and the

LED flashes orange at the Tempo.
When tapping stops the display reverts to [EMPTY].
Recording
While recording, the Billboard displays running record time [R>00.00] or beat count
[R>(beats)] and the Footswitches are used to: