Re: Looping Laptops in general (WAS Products, Services, andLooping Gear "Packages")

["David O'Heare" <oheare@magma.ca>]

Paul:

What sort of monitor did you get, and where?

Dave O'Heare
oheareATmagmaDOTca

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <phaslem@wightman.ca>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: Looping Laptops in general (WAS Products, Services, 
andLooping 
Gear "Packages")


>>> And if something does go wrong, with something like the Looperlative I
>>> can get in touch with the developer and get assistance that will cover
>>> anything that has gone amiss.
>>
>
> Actually, this is exactly the reason I ended up going with a software 
> looper.
> Last summer I had several shows to do and my edp went down, there was no 
> one
> that could service it here in Canada, the company wanted me to ship it to
> Nashville and told me it would be 3 months minimum before I got it back. 
> So I
> looked into the software solutions. At first I was using an old compac 
> m300
> that worked quite fine even though it had certain limitations due to the 
> speed
> and ram (600mhz and 276 mgram). I did share in some of the concerns 
>about 
> the
> fragile nature of laptops in general and eventually settled on building 
>my 
> own
> rackmount computer. I was able to build a 1u rackmount p4 with a 3.06 
>cpu, 
> 1
> gig ram, 120 gig 7600rpm hard drive, a used aardvark q10 pci interface 
> that has
> 8 decent quality mic pre's, and a small 8" touch screen monitor for about
> $900.00. I know the monitor is kinda of small and you don't want to do 
>any
> reading with it, but this computer is only for music. no internet hookup 
> at
> all. I've been using it quite a bit for 4 months now and no problems. 
>The 
> only
> thing that can fall off the rack and get damaged is the touch screen 
> monitor
> and it can be replaced for about $150.00. Because it is a computer I can
> upgrade the motherboard, cpu, memory all with minimal problems.
> For me this was a great solution over the rig that I was using, gave me 
> more
> flexibility and greater potentials for sounds that I was seeking to 
> utilize.
>
> Of course there are reasons for going with hardware loopers, but for me 
> this was
> the best overall solution.
>
> Paul Haslem
>
> www.dulcify.ca
>