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> I've seen people use the SPDIF I/O ports on their audio interfaces to > connect their Lexicon This is exactly what I tried and I found it to work perfectly without any noticable latency and no CPU load to speak of. I compared a lot of demo multieffects to the MPX-1 and IMO, they often do more interesting things (more easily) but not really better sounding effects. There was a lushness and sparkle in the Lexicon that seems hard to emulate. Rich. Since I'm not recording a band live, it's not that important for me to have a bunch of effects running at once so the MPX and some creative bussing will probably do fine and anything extra can be done in software that I already own. Not that some of the software out there isn't great. But when it came down to it I felt that by the time I sold my MPX-1 (would probably fetch about $400 on ebay) I probably would just about have enough to get software that replaced it. Why bother? Different isn't always better. I'm going to spend time working with a software editor to get my patches all nice, like I like 'em. That's my one major complaint with the MPX-1. It's interface blows. So here's what I've figured out (I think I've come to similar conclusions to Per's): The dream of going pure laptop will not happen for me. Doesn't matter though, as my guitar effects processor is on the floor and not much bigger than a MIDI controller I'd need to control software anyway. My secondary processor (Boss VH-1) is small enough to be a non-issue and really good. Any other additional audio processing done by my laptop doesn't need to be the quality of an MPX-1 for live situations and there's a ton of free stuff out there that sounds pretty damn good and is amazingly cool and interesting. Will the people who are listening to my mp3 tracks on $30 computer speakers notice that I'm using Live's reverb? The people in the concrete floor boomy club/cafe notice the difference over the sound of the milk steamer? What's not free is often near free like CamelPhat and Ugo's Tunguska and Metallurgy. If you're a laptop looper make sure you check these out. Thanks again for all the suggestions! Mark ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com