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From: Glenn [mailto:glenn234@pacbell.net] > Soon everyone will have one I can appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't think you have a very good understanding of the technical challenges and business realities for a device like this. This is a niche product that doesn't work well enough and isn't cheap enough to have mass market appeal. It works very well for some applications, but it isn't for everyone. What it basically is, is a rack mount PC without a keyboard and monitor. They have made a number of sensible design choices to improve the stability of the system, but these choices have consequences. It doesn't run either of the two major operating systems so there will always be compatibility issues. The more complicated VSTs have carefully designed user interface windows that don't translate well into a little LCD of scrolling parameters. Some VSTs require occasional keyboard and mouse interaction. As I said, it works reasonably well for VST instruments and effects where you're just calling up patches and not creating anything new on the fly. But for more complicated "performance tools" like loopers a specifically designed UI (hardware or software) is crucial. So to really use this thing for looping you're going to have to drag around an LCD monitor, keyboard, and mouse. And at that point you have to compare it to an ordinary rack mount PC and decide whether the marginally improved stability is worth more than being able to run any software you want. Jeff