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Hi All, This can actually kinda be accomplished now- alot of samplers now have SCSI-2 ports and if you sample at lower bandwidths/bit rates (say 32khz/12 or 8 bit-perfect for low-fi sounds) and couple this with a fast external hard drive you could load several longish ( a couple of minutes or so) in the amount of time your bandmates can take a sip of beer in between songs. Alot of samplers can also have flash ram installed for instant loading of some of your longer loops (typically samplers max out at about 10 megs of flash ram). There are also alot of MIDI devices out now that will give you the real time control that you need over the loops. Jeff Shorthouse Alien Radio Station Toronto, Canada At 3:03 PM -0800 2/18/99, Dennis W. Leas wrote: >Here's an idea for a new feature for the EDP (Kim, are ya' listenin'?). yep. >It would really be cool if you could dump/load samples in a speedy >manner. I'm thinking of something like 1 or 2 seconds to complete the >operation. I know MIDI wouldn't support this but I'm thinking of >something like 10 or 100 Mbps Ethernet. interesting thing: it's now typical for embedded microprocessor development to use ethernet for transferring code from the PC to the development systems. (serial ports were used in the bad old days.) So all the microprocessor eval systems and software development tools come with ethernet built in. The result is, at the end of the product development, you've got functional ethernet developed for free. So, given time and money, (a lot of money, please give us money. :-) we aurisis maniacs will eventually develop another Loop hardware platform, and it will certainly have ethernet as a possibility for the final product. I've been thinking of this for a while actually. Ethernet is useless for real time control, but great for fast, reliable file transfers. It would seem pretty cool to me to have your studio all networked, right? someday. kim (Or maybe firewire will finally arrive, that would be even better.) ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com