Re: LAPTOP recommendations for LIVE LOOPING?

[Geoff Smith <geoff.smith15@btopenworld.com>]

Hi rick I use an edirol usb keyboard it has midi in/out +more controllers
than the oxygen + Mbox
this gets round the midi in out problem as its on the usb keyboard.
Geoff 


on 1/4/03 8:56 am, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL at GLOBAL@cruzio.com wrote:

> I am in the market for a laptop computer so that I can
> record, use Ableton's LIVE as a realtime performance enhancer
> and use real time USB/Midi control over soft synths.
> 
> A trusted friend of mine in digital audio said that there are a plethora
> of known conflicts on the PC side with sound cards and laptop computers 
>and
> advised me to figure out what sound card I wanted;  then to go to their
> website and
> ask specifically what computers configurations they would recommend to 
>put
> that sound card into.
> 
> I would really love to get some advise on
> 
> 1)  What sound card would you recommend for a laptop computer
> 
> given that
> a)  I want to record my live shows in stereo in real time
> b)  I want to run Ableton's LIVE in real time with midi
> cc control of samples and effects
> c)  I want to be able to use an OXYGEN keyboard to play
> soft synths live
> d)  If it is possible, I would like to use PEAK's V-Box
> to host ANTARES audio/synth converter live (to, in essence
> be able to sing live synth lines in real time)
> 
> I anticipate using a Digi Designs M-box to get audio signal into the
> computer.
> 
> What have you bought that you dig in terms of a sound card.
> It needs to have USB 2 and midi/in out (and preferably SPDIF if that's 
>even
> possible).
> 
> Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom.
> 
> See you all at LOOPSTOCK this weekend,
> 
> yours, Rick Walker
>