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Michael In direct answer to your query, I've been fortunate not to have glitches yet in my laptop environment, and as has been mentioned, if you load your machine down beyond what you do on stage, it's a good test. I also keep a backup drive for extreme situations. More... I've been using live now for a few years on stage, and I have yet to have a problem. I even use the internal hard drive. I do far more playback than live recording, as Per does, or Kid Beyond, but it is my primary routing device and effects chain provider. Now I use it with sooperlooper instead of my echoplex, and did my first show last week without a big rig, and in fact, without a rig at all, just a MOTU Traveler. Now, on the other hand, I've had my Eventide Orville go down on me in the middle of very high profile gigs probably five times, and I still can't troubleshoot why, it never has made any sense, and now I resist taking it on stage with me, perhaps it's a heat issue. So all in all, putting myself in 'Steve Jobs' hands' haven't let me down in performance yet. I've never been a Bill Gates' computer owner, though I hear more and more good things about Windows Music efficiency, often from Per regarding Live. Keep in mind that I do use carbon copy cloner so that I have a backup 7200 rpm drive available should anything go bonkers... I do know that I can travel far more easily than I used to and generally accomplish the same things that I used to accomplish with a big rig... Of course if I had Frippian budget, talent, reputation and brilliance, I might still carry roadcases worth of machines... You're right, though, with Live, Max/MSP and a host of plug-ins, our performance world starts to look pretty limitless... All best, todd On 12/29/05 11:43 AM, "Michael Plishka" <mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote: > I believe that this was discussed before, if so, forgive me, but those >who > loop live and use laptops, have you ever had any glitches live and how do > you prepare yourself for such an occurrence? > > In spite of using computers in all aspects of my life (and maybe because >of > it!!) I just don't trust being on stage with a laptop and trusting my > performance into Bill Gates' hands. > > It just seems that there are more and more cool computer based programs >that > have tremendous potential live. > Thanks, > > ~peace~ > > Michael > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ³Virtue is just repression waiting to go bad² - Trevor Exter ³Classical music is related to the past more than it is related to the creative part of sound² - Ornette Coleman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Todd Reynolds 42-09 47th Ave 1C Sunnyside, NY 11104 Ph. 718 392-3773 Mob. 917 576-6166 Fax 419 781-5502 http://www.toddreynolds.com todd@toddreynolds.com 9175766166@vtext.com (155 characters or less) AIM ID: toddreyn