All due respect, the “Honda” market is saturated with looper options, and the Aeros is way beyond a Mercedes.
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And, while we’re about it, the Beat Buddy is anything but a Honda. I mean, there’s just nothing out there like it that gives me the flexibility and options the BB gives me. Show me any other device that includes a fully-open platform that supports drum sets and patterns from just about anywhere, and the ability to program your own patterns and drum kits. My BB plays exactly what I want it to when I want it to, covers occasional keyboard parts, and, through the magic of MIDI, runs my stage lights. The Trio doesn’t do all that.
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But I digress…
This looper is clearly aimed at a higher-end buyer, someone who might have been excited by the new Headrush looper, and who is really using the looper as their main instrument. I assume it has spectacular integration with the BB, and that, unlike all of the Honda options out there. I hope it actually does MIDI correctly (the MIDI jacks on most Honda options are largely decorative). It’s really not for guys like you or me. Which I think is what you said as well.
I also agree with you absolutely that this is way more than most of us might need. But it’s a hell of an idea that fits into that tiny little box.
Like you, I’d love to have an Aeros Light at $200-300, but I think the full-boat Aeros is the only way we’ll ever see something like that from Singular: There are dozens of products in the Honda space, and I think they have done a smart thing making their bones in the much less-contested high-end looper space to give them some credibility to take on the incumbents in the you-and-me space.
Thoughts?