Re: Plex Upgrade ideas: Loose the box. (POLAR!)

[pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com]

At 07:17 PM 10/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Peter Shindler wrote:
><snip>
>> 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.
><more snip>
>> Is such a thing even technically possible?  And, if so, how much moolah
>> would all this crap cost?
>
>Hmmm, that is a very interesting concept. I, too, dream of a laptop-based
>looping/effect/synth/recording rig with a PowerBook, a Magma PCI expansion
>chassis (www.magma.com) and a Creamware Pulsar (www.creamware.com.)
>
>One G3 would be hard-pressed to process three or four peoples' worth of
>music however. To make your idea work reasonably well, it might require 
>each
>member to have their own G3 rig, and they would have to be networked with 
>at
>least 100Mb or possibly even gigabit ethernet.

Don't we have a couple of members of The Hub on this list?  

The Hub is an electronic band consisting of five or six musicians playing
electronic instruments networked together.

Paolo