This small pedal has incredible secret yes it's an advanced looper and drum
machine but it also has the capacity to hold 256 backing tracks with a seven
gigabyte storage capacity... stick around
So if you're a solo gigging musician or just a duo without a drummer this
thing is going to be absolutely invaluable, I wish I had this 10 years
ago when I was in a covers band we were running the drums off of a MIDI keyboard
and this thing would have been absolutely amazing, in order to get your
backing tracks into the JTC drum and loop Pro NUX provide this free piece
of software called the format converter this particular file is 16-bit but the
unit requires the files to be 24-bit so it's just as easy as dragging your file
onto the software selecting 24-bit from the drop-down menu and hitting start, the
software will create a duplicate file for you so it doesn't touch the original
file and if we have a look at that second file we'll notice that it's now
been converted to 44.1 K 24-bit there's no need to bring an expensive laptop or
run the backing tracks from your iPhone you can do it all from this, you would
just create your set list as normal numbered one to however many and then
reference them back to this when you're playing the backing tracks plus also if
somebody in the crowd requests a song that you haven't got a backing track for
you've also got a backup drum machine in there so you can do an impromptu version
of that particular song, connectivity is really straightforward you just connect
the unit to your laptop or MacBook via a cable it isn't supplied unfortunately I
use my JBL flip 4 cable and then to load the backing tracks we just navigate
to the NUX looper go into the wave folder and start dragging the backing
tracks into the particular folders there are 256 folders and I'm going to load
this 47 megabyte file into 40 different folders just to test it out see what
happens
we have a looking out at the capacity of the NUX looper we can see we've still
got 6 gigabytes of information free so 256 backing tracks is not going to be a
problem you'll know that the backing tracks are loaded correctly because as
you navigate through your backing tracks if there's a dot next to the number then
it's in the correct format in order for you to play the backing track
you
it's such a great bit of kit you can hold all those backing tracks, massive
storage capacity advanced looper with auto start plus the drum machine
built-in with a lot of patterns and I think 40 different films when you hit
the rhythm button again it will just create the fill for you during the
pattern but there are a couple of things that I did notice about the JTC drum and
loop Pro that can be improved probably with a software update one of those
things is when you switch over to backing tracks it would be nice if it
defaulted to one shot secondly you don't get the connection cable in the box to
connect it up to the PC or your Mac I had to use my JBL flip 4 charging
cable which worked perfectly well and thirdly 2019 / 2020
I think the drum sounds could be a little bit better having said that
though with the backing track capabilities of this thing I'm not sure
you'd mind at all and also when you're practicing it's always a good idea to
practice with a metronome this has a metronome on pattern zero and then from
pattern 1 onwards it's all rhythms so even better to practice to a drum track
it really is a fantastic underrated little unit and I want to thank NUX for
sending it out to me to try it so what did you guys think like and subscribe if
this is your sort of thing thanks very much for watching and I'll see you soon