Alternative to a Looper pedal?

ROOG

I dug out my Zoom G5 yesterday and played with the on board drum sequences and the looper, It was much more fun than I expected, but I found the operation of the looper a bit 'hit and miss' and the drum sounds, although better than a metronome are a bit basic.

I have found real drum sequences on youtube, but wondered how I can link these into the looper to record over them?

The G5 only has a single guitar input and no line in and of couse this is fed through the selected effects. Is there some thing out there that I could use to achieve the same sort of result, but with better and more varied drum tracks and without having to resort to a PC?  For instance could I do this with an iPad?  

UnclePsychosis

Does the G5 have a USB socket? On the G3 you can connect it to a PC via USB and then tell the pc to output audio via the G3- effectively a digital line in. Would be slightly surprised if you can't do that with the G5 too.

UnclePsychosis

Alternatively the digitech jamman has an sd card slot (or similar) so you can load samples etc. That might work for you.

ROOG

UnclePsychosis said:

Does the G5 have a USB socket? On the G3 you can connect it to a PC via USB and then tell the pc to output audio via the G3- effectively a digital line in. Would be slightly surprised if you can't do that with the G5 too.

@UnclePsychosis Yes it does, I've only ever used it to do the software update.

If that can be done that might help, I wonder if it would record on the looper, otherwise I'm going to synch problems?

I'll give it a try. 

ROOG

I gave it a go and you can hear the MP3 track through the G3 and play over it but it doesn't record the MP3 drum track into the looper. So Im still interested in a thing a ma Bob that can loop with a drum track?