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Hey, did you ever get that magazine? On Oct 14, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Krispen Hartung wrote: > Rick - I will donate my old laptop and bring it to Y2K8. > > It is a Compaq Presario 2525US > 2.4ghz (INTEL Pentium 4) > 500MG of RAM > Win XP Home > Include the Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA soundcard for Laptop (24 bit) > > It is loaded with a ton of Software that will work fine, but what I > purchased will not be re-installable if the computer is re-built. > Software includes: > > Mobius (older version that can be updated easily) > Chainer (VST Host) > EnergyXT (VST Host) > Waves (mastering suite) > PSP84 (VST) > PSP42 (VST) > SpaceEffect (VST) > Finale 2005 > Antares Filter > Antares Kantos > FlexFX (VST) > VocFX (VST) > Microsoft Office > WaveLab > Roughly 400 free VST effects of every sort and flavor > > Kris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> I just gave away a computer I inherited from my father to >> a local Goth/Industrial musician on the proviso that he >> use it for making music and it suddenly occured to me: >> >> >> A lot of us have old computers laying around that would be fine for >> doing some live or even canned looping. >> >> Personally, I have an old 1.3 ghz P4 sitting in my house that is >> all taken apart (with the best intentions of rebuilding it and >> upgrading >> until I ended up buying a newer one). >> >> I was thinking it would be a very cool thing is anyone has this >> stuff lying >> around and have Matthias Grob or Andrew Ostler or Jeff Larson or >> whoever >> has invented some looping softare to donate a looping software >> package >> to said old used computers and give them away to young aspiring >> live loopers who might not have the money to purchase such a thing. >> >> In the year 1998, two good friends of mine gifted me a Mac >> computer and >> basically baby sat me into understanding how to use it to make music >> just because they had the faith in me that I would do something >> really creative >> with it. Now, ten years later I make probably 1/3 to 1/2 of >> my income because >> I've really learned how to do it on both platforms. >> >> I never could have afforded to do it at the time and now I'm >> teaching young musicians >> how to make music with a computer. A small miracle. >> >> Does anyone have such a computer laying around? >> I imagine it would need to be at least a P4 or equivalent >> processor of a 1ghz or more >> or the equivalent Mac computer. >> >> It's just a thought, but I thought it might be a cool thing to do >> ritually at the Y2K festival each year. >> >> Towards that end, read my next email to the list. >> >> Cheers, yours in creativity and fostering community, Rick Walker >