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Sounds like an idea that I can't get out of my head, ridiculous as it is. I envision a band consisting of 2 guitars (ideally Sticks or Warrs, but whatever) equipped with synth pickups, and a drummer using a V-Drum kit. Instead of each player having his own rack of effects, samplers, et al... EVERYONE's signal goes into one G3 Powerbook, which has all the sound samples and looping software onboard, and then a simple controller for each person to manipulate his own signal and loops. Plus, since everyone's got access to the same sounds, the drummer could use guitar/bass patches, and vice versa. For a bonus, you could even let a fourth person sit at the computer and act as a DJ, controlling the loops and manipulating the sounds in real-time while the other three play. Is such a thing even technically possible? And, if so, how much moolah would all this crap cost? Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org> To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:28 AM Subject: Re: Plex Upgrade ideas: Loose the box. (POLAR!) > In May, David Caplivski had a dream (below). Did you someone else realize it? > > >>Mark Sottilaro wrote: > >> > > >> > Here's a suggestion: > >> > > >> > Why not loose the box, guts and all? If the wonder of the EDP is in the > >> > software, then let's do away with the silicon. I've got a ton of it > >> > sitting in front of me right now. I'd just love a software version of > >> > the Echoplex that I could run on a Macintosh. Especially if it >could > >> > sync to a MIDI sequencing program, such as Metro. > >> > > >> > Is this possible? > >> > >>Its probably possible > >>but then the loopers delight would be transformed in a bug report, > >>computer configuration hell , all the fatiguing background noize you > >>see/hear in every music software forum > >> > >>remember there is no bug in the EDP software v5 (there is one but I >wont > >>tell !):-) > >> > >>Claude > >> > > >Couldn't someone run a labtop (i.e. G3 powerbook) with running Digital > >Performer's P.O.L.A.R. software (performance orietated looping audio > >recording) fullly equiped with a recording gate and automatic loop playback > >functions and achieve more because of the computer's memory and other > >feature's. It's an expensive proposition but one I'm looking into >because > >the idea of having a portable studio and synthesizer and looping brain >is my > >holy grail right now. The problem I foresee with POLAR's recording gate > >function is not so much start times but stop times. But then again you > >could bypass this function and manually trigger start and stop times. > > > > > >_______________________________________________________________ > >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > > > ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org > >