RE: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the Receptor for Mobius

["Dean, Hal " <HDEAN@wcupa.edu>]

I run a Vaio laptop with Layla 24 PCMCIA audio and a Steinberg Midex USB
MIDI interface. It works flawlessly and reliably. I don't know if the
processor is a Pentium M. As for PCMCIA, Echo is moving to firewire...
which the Vaio also supports.

I'm curious, why would PCMCIA be better than firewire?

Hal Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: Per Boysen [mailto:per@boysen.se] 
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:13 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to
the Receptor for Mobius


On Oct 14, 2005, at 16:04, Art Simon wrote:

> Has anyone else built or thought about building something similar?


Yes. I read a lot at the audio computer performance test thread at  
the Ableton Live forum. What I learned from all those posted test  
reports was that the Pentium M processors in modern notebooks are  
much more efficient with the type of calculations happening in real- 
time audio software. The best configuration I can imagine would be  
such a laptop with a PCMCIA audio interface and a USB midi interface.

Here's the link to the computer test thread: (past complete URL into  
browser)

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24715&highlight=live+five 
+performance+test

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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