Man, I wish I could be 1/4 as happy as you appear to be.....very upbeat cat 🐱

Got to see Robert Fripp Frippertronics show in the mid 80s,got to meet him on stage after and check out his setup.

Wow, I'm just now getting into looping and have acquired the Ditto X4, and you've really opened my eyes to what's possible. I can't wait to begin experimenting. Thank you for taking the time to patiently explain your process : )

Got a ditto X4 after watching this demo. Really nice piece of equipment, very happy with it. Thanks

Oh, dude, taking me back to my youth, listening for hours to Fripp's albums and spacing out happily. ;-) Great stuff.

Love Frippertronics. And you demonstrate this perfectly. I've got a Ditto x4 and it is my jamming buddy, but coupled with the Triple Delay, makes a soundscape that reaches the 'nth' dimension. Great demo Dude. Subscribed!

Nicely shot, nicely edited, nicely explained. You're actually really into what you do music wise and patiently explain what you're doing. Though no matter how many secrets or tips you give away its all down to the individual player in the end. Another great clip Bill. Greetings from London UK

Got the pedal yesterday. Love it. Thanks for the instruction. Thanks

This is great, thank you for explaining in depth for those of us who don’t read the manual.

Thanks for the demo! I've been playing with two "little loopers" together lately (a Ditto and a Boss RC-1) and decided to take the plunge and pick an X4. I was impressed with what I'd seen/heard before, but I hadn't seen a demo of how the dip switches work. Very cool!

Very nice demo. I have it on my bucket list and one day. Thanks for confirming that I should so get this pedal.

Thanks for the video, good stuff.

First of all, excellent channel sire! I recently bought one of these buggers, tremendous! MIDI sync on it is absolutely seamless. Been jamming along with my iPad/MIDI interface with various rhythm, looper and synth apps to great succes. I've had a Boss RC-50 for years and never once managed to get it to sync to anything, but this worked immediately... TC have nailed it with this fella!

just got this one yesterday and it´s magick didn´t know about these switches yet so thanks

Buying a new computer; $575 , Buying a new internet access: $39.99, Looking at Frippertronics perfect loops of guitar playing: Priceless!

really enjoyed this and the way you present. As with your Fripp, I had a similar obsession with Steve Hillage scales and delay work

thanks for this. Got a Ditto x4 for new year's/christmas but didn't get a chance to uncover everything it can do. Very cool with this switching business. Only Frippertronics I have now is build on a virtual setup in Reaper DAW.

That was absolutely mindblowing. Great playing and great review of the pedal, thank you. Also when I realise that Robert Fripp thought this system up "just" with tapes it makes me appreciate the man even more.

Great video! Thanks for posting, sounds great!

Great and informative video. Also, you have a lovely voice and accent.

Thank you ! Great video

Decent pedagogy on what/how to work this pedal (like 60% towards mastery of SnS technique). That said, it's the best video out there for this pedal and I think TC thought this pedal was more intuitive than it actually is. Lots of power as a looper but to master it requires skills & history only a sage like CoO embodies.

Fantastic video! I've been looking at getting a Ditto X2 for a while and thought that the X4 might be a bit too extravagant for me, but after seeing this I'm completely and utterly convinced that I should pick the Ditto X4.

Very Cool! Thanks 4 Sharing. Peace

Great video. Thanks.

cool tech demo from the onion knight!

A cool idea with this. What if you added in some side chain compression at the very end to this to give it that pumping/breathing effect. Also could be described as a phantom bass drum. Ambient-dance will be a ....well maybe not hit, but cool

Thanks a lot for this video, it was very helpful. One exceptionally cool application for this pedal is my analog synths. :)

Back in the 70's we had a similar term... It was electronics + flipping someone off=flippertronics

Hi Orion - nice channel with good content, often thought trough, clear and logical explanations and a calm sympathetic persona + nice voice. Interesting to notice that TC-E added the feature of fading loop layers some time after I suggested this (but in another specific way) on their channel :) One glitch or shortcoming I noticed they still have , which seems to be in every pedal: after stopping the loop(s) and when proceeding to delete the loop(s) it will start playing the loop(s) for half a second. As you told the looper @ 3:26 "Shut up". It disturbs especially when the stopping of loop(s) is done only to move into another musical segment - not to stop entirely, or when the music is still ongoing (other musicians etc.).It is surprising how they haven´t adressed a solution to such an obvious thing. If they´d for instance would use diffrent kinds of combinated switches, such as the common ones in modded Ibanez pedals, it wouldn´t even need more space to have "quicker foot commands". Anyways, thank you for your quality work.

Bill, one thing I've been messing with lately on my Ditto X4 is playing a loop on channel one while turning channel two into a long delay by turning the decay knob all the way back. The way I manage it is by saving the loop in channel 1 by flipping the store switch for that channel. Once the loop in channel 1 is saved, it will not fade out even though the decay knob is dialed all the way back. For channel two, I then record dead air for the length of the first loop and then play over that track in overdub mode. The result is that I am soloing over the loop in channel 1 in counterpoint to what I played a few seconds previously. It is absolutely incredible what you can wring out of the Ditto X4. I'd love it if you could make more videos deep diving into the features of that pedal.

I thought for sure you were getting ready to play Friction by Television, and I was like: Hey! I'm the guy fusing Fripp and Verlaine! :)

Great video.

Your best yet-I wish I'd bought this one instead ! ;-)

Sounds great my friend : ). Seems lately like I am financially supporting TC Electronics, lol. I have quite a few of their pedals on my board... and I am picking up the Trinity 2 today. The Ditto X4 is now next on the list. My wife is going to kill me.

Once again, nicely done. I'm going to have to purchase one of these. I have G.A.S. Off I go to place my order.

You have the best voice out there of any reviewer. Please tell me you do voiceover work... otherwise your talent is grossly overlooked

I love your videos! What are your thoughts on the x4 a few years on? Any issues? :)

Before you start the Frippertronics demo when you say you are just going to show the distortion and ping pong delay, what is your setup there? That tone is freakin JUICY!

just picked up a ditto x4, I had the x2 but felt like I needed more. your video is inspiring!

Many thanks for the hard work. From what I can tell, you're starting with the Wampler Ego Compressor, then going into the J. Rockett Pedals Allan Holdsworth Overdrive. Those follow into the Morley Little Alligator Volume Pedal which sends the signal to the TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper. Finally the Looper is going into the Triple Delay for ambient treatment. That right? In what situations would you use the delay BEFORE the looper and why? Thank ye, sir!

now that's how you demo a product !

Wonderful video as per usual! I was wondering if you know how the dittox4 stands against the Boss Rc 30?

Hi Bill! Thanks for your video performances! Questions: How many seconds each track can be long? BTW in 2023 do you would still recommend the Ditto X4? Or do you think there are better alternative in that level of price (for frippertronics stuff) ? BTW I'm Giorgio Robino, author of SOLYARIS MUSIC. Thanks again

Excellent demo. However one question: Does the Ditto makes the first lines that you put in weaker and weaker as you go along, as in a real long delay unit (or tape setup) ? I thought it could just do regular loops that repeats without fading out. That's the main difference and a crucial difference between pure Frippertronics, and just any kind of looper. Can you use the looper as a regular delay too?

Great video. Quick question that I havent been able to find an answer to -- Does loop decay only fade overdubs? Or does it gradually fade the loop layers as the loop repeats, in play mode?

I have a setup including the Dittox4 and Triple Delay and would like to add a Behringer Crave (or other) sequencer to my system so that the loops are synchronized with whatever is sounding on the sequencer. Can it be done, with the Ditto's MIDI in perhaps?

Very cool pedal. We are kind of spoiled with technology. Imagine the hoops Robert Tripp had to jump through to create these tones and sounds that we can dial up at the flick of a switch. I wonder what technology Fripp is using these days. Thanks for another great demo.

Nice

Dear Bill, very nice. Could please explain a bit about "delaying the loop and not looping the delay"? Not sure I get what's the difference. I have not tried frippertronics (yet) but I always have the loop at the very end of the chain. Thanks!

So the decay function only decays loops as you add more, right? In play mode, when you're doing your warm fuzzy soloing, the current loops do not fade. So this looper is quite good at creating a quasi-Frippertronics effect, but it's not quite the same as the real thing (sonically) where it's a constant very gradual fade-out. It seems to get something just like the Frippertronics effect we'll just have to wait for the Frippertronics™ pedal!

With this one can I record and play different parts of the song : verse. chorus, bridge all during a live performance not using my hands (pedals or footswitches only)?

When you refer to distortion in the video, are you talking about the Holdsworth pedal?

nice vídeo! look, I have a question. If you start recording then presa stop on the end of the Loop, can you start the Loop you recorded right before pressing stop? thanks a lot!

Actually have a question 4 ya < Ambient Chord Master > why did you choose to call your channel 'Chords of Orion' N not 'Chords of Sirius' or 'Chords of Nibiru' // Hope my question would make sense

I'm thinking of getting this and I was curious have you come across anything you find better since you did these videos on it?

Thanks for doing these demos. Apparently this Ditto looper, which is pretty well thought out for performance purposes, has software issues that cause a tendency to freeze up the unit, which is not good in performance. I wouldn't buy a looper anymore unless it had an SD card for storing & transferring loops. I don't want to have to hook up to a computer to save a loop.

I'm not sure if you've every explained this, but what kind of overdrive do you use and what settings do you use to get it to dirty up like you do? It seems difficult to get a nice dirt sound with my tubescreamer going into a clean amp and I don't want to use a straight up distortion box.

Great demo! Just curious, whats your pedal setup?!

Robert Fripp and Brian Eno were great on "No Pussyfooting" with his Frippertronics. But my question is what are your treble, Mid and Bass on your amp?

Can you put two separate inputs; a mic and a guitar and loop them separately? like loop a guitar riff and then loop vocals on the second loop? or do I have to unplug the guitar and plug in the guitar?

Hello there. Is this pedal good for playing solo part of Nuages from KC?

Help please! I just got this pedal and I got a problem with the first loop not syncing with itself properly. Any idea what's up ?

Quick question ; how far can you take the Frippertronics thing on a Ditto X 2 - or is it not possible?

how do you like that Saffire Pro 40? I am looking at getting one

Are the other pedals on or just in the chain. Can the Ditto do all this on its own? I will put this as Send/Return into my AXE FX2 XL+

Can the two independent loops run out of sync? That's what I need.

I'm curious about the MIDI ports. What are the possibilities?

hi, I just so booth video, good job!!!! do you know if this looper can send midi time clock? I see that have no midi-out. Thanks!

Needs an EBow!

Can you tell how much delay did you dialed in the TC Flashback?

Loops

Is it possible to connect that looper with IPad drum machine? Via midi input and output?

Are these videos sponsored ?

ボブこれに、ワンギターツーアンプだよね、御仕舞いだよ。

these must have been designed by non musicians. some songs require record play overdub another ones record overdub play . so when you have a list of songs you have to bendover and change the modes all the time. useless for live playing. Best looper pedal by far is Jamman solo xt. you buy two of them about the same price as this one. you synch it with each other. that's it

You can't start and stop either of the channels independently, once you're running two loops you're either playing them both or stopping them both. You can bring either one in at a time, but not take one or the other out independently.

ATD not OCD is what I would call your product reviews ..... Attention To Detail!

フリップは、終わりだよね。