I recently acquired the 22500 Looper as a replacement for the 45000 Looper I sold last year for a series of gigs and it was blast to learn. It had a few bugs that caused it freeze when I was deep in the recording process, but it performed flawlessly at my gigs.

I had used the same SD card for both. I had saved a tons of loops from the 45000, but they couldn’t be read on the 22500. The pre-designated loops did have “Mem” light to show there was something there, but nothing would playback.

The new hardware and programming design felt superior in a lot of ways to the 45000, but still there are some aspects about the functionality that I felt were lacking in comparison. The new 22500 has a bpm and tap tempo and meter (4/4, 3/4, 6/ quantizer for the loops. The 45000 had the tap feature, but the button was not a foot switch style and it didn’t have programmable BPMs. The 45000 did have the benefit of a built in click track, which I much prefer to having to load a metronome click track on one of my available loops.

I’m considering going back to the 45000, but I really think that you guys should update and upgrade 45000 to incorporate features of the 22500 and keep all the existing ones . . . XLR input, the bpm, serial/parallel, Locked/Freeform, larger tap switch etc, MIDI expansion, etc. Include the meter programmer for the quantize, but expand the available meters.

The 45000 is cool as is, but . . . EHX has lots of competition in this space now. The Ditto X4 just came out, The Pigtronix Infinity, Boomerangs etc.

Anybody else have ideas for what they would like to see in an potential upgrade?