I have been looking around at looper pedals for a while, only to result in a sort of overload and confusion as to what I even need any more. Thus, I thought I would ask if any of you here have experience with looper pedals on the market today.

The only key features I rank as “must haves” are:

Over 7 minutes of recording time
Ability to save recordings to a flash card/computer


The BOSS RC-20XL looks to be nearly perfect, but you cannot save loops. The Line 6 JM4 seems like it has all that I want, but unfortunately comes with a whole lot of things I don't need resulting in a pretty high price for a basic single track looper with no quanitizing. The new Digitech stereo looper seems to fit the bill, but again is kind of a “band-in-a-box” and kind of expensive for its basic looping features. Finally, you have the Electro-Harmonix 2880 with all the loop features one could want, but over $500 USD with unit and pedal board.

I started this search with the hope of spending maybe $200 USD on a basic looper pedal. Does such a thing exist with the ability to save your loops? Alternatively, does any one have any first-hand knowledge of loopers that might help me to reset my expectations?

In case any one else is curious about getting into loopers without dropping too much cash, I have been playing with Ubuntu Studio and the "SuperLooper" application.

http://sonosaurus.com/sooperlooper/

SuperLooper is a really slick open source (aka free) application for Linux and Mac that does pretty much everything the high-end loooper pedals do. The only catch is that you have to have a low-latency sound card to use it. I am still playing around with this application trying to decide is this i a viable alternative to dedicated looping pedal or not. Though, so far it seems pretty promising.

On sale, got one a year ago, excellent for what I do with it. I paid more.

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/DigiTech-JamMan-Looper-Pedal?sku=156600