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

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Oh, they're both software solutions--one just has a dedicated hardware
platform to run it on.  Dedicated hardware tends to be more stable,
and computers depreciate at a furious rate.  What are the odds that
your laptop will be running in ten years?

Plus, most people don't have a pressing need for seven tracks with
multiple overdubs.  But hey, if you do, a PC based solution is
obviously more cost-effective.

TravisH

On 10/14/05, phaslem@wightman.ca <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:
> Have any of you tried litepc? It used to be 98lite but now they have a 
>version
> for xp as well. It's a program out of Australia that allows you to strip 
>out a
> lot of the xp programs that are unnecesary and slow things down. It's 
>what I
> used on my laptop compaq m300 with 600mhz p3 processor, and 384 mb ram. 
>I'm
> running mobius as a standalone and that laptop as my dedicated looper. 
>So far
> the only time I've run into glitches with it was when I had 7 tracks 
>going at
> the same time with several overdubs on each track. It was running all
> that fine
> but when I tried to save it,,, the whole thing bogged down. I think with 
>a
> faster processor and more ram I could do just about anything I can 
>imagine.
>
> a few people have argued against a software looper... but when I had my 
>edp
> apart, my tech friend said "lets see, here's your processor, here's the 
>ram,
> here's the software... looks suspiciously like a dedicated computer to 
>me"
>
> Why not set up a laptop or rackmount computer as the dedicated looping
> machine?
> It would cost what, 12 or 13 thousand to duplicate what mobius will do
> with edp
> units! and that doesn't even consider the nightmare of trying to wire up 
>and
> control 16 edp's
>
> When you start comparing what you can do with the software vrs the 
>hardware
> versions, I think the software will win out...
>
> Paul Haslem
> Ontario, Canada