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I looked into it, and I couldn't make the math work out -- everything ended up being about the same as the Receptor. I don't know much about building systems, but there's the A/D conversion, the ins and outs, the MIDI, and so forth, that the Receptor has built in, along with the host program (not such a big deal). If something like what you describe was available, or if I knew _exactly_ what to buy and what to do when I bought it, I'd add it to the rack in a heartbeat. Receptor is supposedly super-stable, too. XP seems kinda kludgy for a dedicated music system, whereas MUSE has adapted Linux. Although their code is GPLed, so it would be there to use. On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Art Simon wrote: > For some reason, I've been thinking about this a lot. I never work > outside of the studio, but I enjoy building computers. It wouldn't be > that hard or expensive to build a rackmount computer to run Mobius, in > fact it would probably be half the price of the Receptor. And there > are new, small TFT touchscreen computer monitors coming on the market > aimed at people who are building PC based car audio systems: > > http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp? > sku=90146946&SearchEngine=Froogle&SearchTerm=90146946&Type=PE&Category > =Elec&Gad=0&dcaid=17379 > > If you were to take such a computer on a gig, you might be able to do > everything with just the touchscreen so you wouldn't need to pack a > keyboard, mouse, monitor etc. > > It would be really cool if there was a rackmount case that came with a > small touchscreen monitor, or at least a place to mount one, but I > couldn't find one. > > Has anyone else built or thought about building something similar? The > first issue of "Virtual Instruments" magazine had a good article on > building a rackmount music computer, but it didn't discuss > touchscreens. > -- > Art Simon > simart@null.net > http://art.simon.tripod.com > http://artsimon.iuma.com >