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here is what happened: i flew from berlin to sebastopol, ukraine for a gig in a defunct nuclear submarine port. solo contrabass flute and electronics with live video projection. so far, so wild! at the check-in the nasty little man didn't accept my cb-flute as hand luggage. it's smaller than a tenor sax... arriving in sebastopol i was very happy to find my flute case on the belt and was only mildly concerned about the case with my electronix not coming up. i filled in the missing report kind of happy - man, how did i misjudge the situation... i spent the next week running around in the glaring sebastopol sun trying to buy cables, firewire cables, volume pedals, loopers, pitchers, everything. i managed to get a powerchord for my cell (yes, i know, i will never ever put it into the luggage again...) and a firewire cable. NOTHING else i digged up not even one effing volume pedal. or some whatever-kinda-stompbox-with-a-decent-octaver. nothing. i contacted PER who was wonderful. he helped me with mobius, bidule and a lot of good ideas about vsts and so on. he gave me some really good ideas. his mails helped my morale, too. THANX PER!!! my setup was finally mobius and nothing else. ll other solutions sounded questionable or weren't stable enough. (guitar rig left me alone standing there many times while rehearsing, so i kicked it.) as a foot control, i threw down a usb keyboard and programmed the space bar to be record and some other key to be overdub. all fades and loop select and multiply i had to do with my hands, looking at the screen. now guess what a friend said after the gig: "wasn't very sexy to see you stare at the screen all the time - were you reading emails or what!?!" but anyway, i survived. nobody got killed. not even bruised. i haven't seen my gear since then - it flew: berlin - frankfurt - munich - kiev - istanbul - sebastopol. but i am keeping my thumbs pressed. and the number of "lost and found" on speed dial. smooth looping - tilmann