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> From: aaron leese > Wow, I may have found the right place after all ... Something of an understatement. Welcome to your new home :-) > I am looking for further development ideas .... I have a few > of my own, but I am trying to get this product finished by > september, so any features that you can suggest, I want to know about. A few words of advice: If you're expecting to make money from this, do some market research. Look at what Ableton Live does. Look at the other software loopers that have been available for several years. Search the archives of this mailing list for software looping discussions. Forget about the proprietary hardware interface and support off the shelf MIDI foot controllers. People willing to incorporate a laptop into their rig tend to be technically savvy and have other MIDI hardware or software. They already have a foot controller and dislike consuming floor space with another one. At the very least make it optional. Provide the option to run it as a VST plugin. Again, musicians with laptops are frequently also using them to host VST instruments and effects, and expect the ability to wire the looper into their VST rig. Support synchronization with external devices. Many loopers like to use them in conjunction with a drum machine or software sequencer running drum patterns or background loops. At the very least, provide the ability to generate a stable MIDI master clock for a slaved drum machine. If possible, support the ability to to be a slave to a MIDI clock generated by a drum machine. Good luck with the project! Regards, Jeff PS: Back to your hardware. If you understand hardware and device drivers well enough to build a small 12 button USB footswitch and make it appear to the system as a MIDI device, then provide software to map arbitrary MIDI messages to the down and up transitions of the switches, and can manufacture it for under $200, that would be a very attractive product for many laptop-based musicians. You will make more money off that than you ever will with looping software :-)