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I’ve made the decision to move to a laptop setup, mainly to get rid of the huge and heavy synthesizers, 19” racks and make it “transportable” in stead of “moveable” if you know what I mean. With this email I want to share my experience with you. => Btw: Per and others, thanks for all your emails regarding this topic; they have been very valuable so far. Thanks :) To give you a little background information, I have been using Cubase for a long time, mainly as a sequencer application in a classic studio environment. I’ve not used software to process audio in real-time, so that’s totally new for me. I’m currently testing with a Macbook 2.4/4 Gb, Motu Ultralite mk3 and Logic Mainstage plus some hard and software loopers. The Ultralite is a half-size 19” Firewire 400 interface, bus powered, many inputs (mic, line, spdif) and outputs, on-board reverb, EQ, compression and midi. All settings are adjustable using the front panel backlit LCD or through the Cue Mix software. You can use it as a standalone mixer and it has balanced outputs. To summarize: this little box replaces my mixer, compressor, EQ, DI/splitter and midi interface. Excellent value for the money, highly recommended. Once you understand the basics of concerts, patches and channel strips, Mainstage is an easy application to work with and a real bargain if you consider how many high quality soft synths and FX plugins you get. Setting up midi controllers is also easy with the learn function, AU plugin settings are all saved within the patch. I think Per already reported this in the past but the only real problem I have run into so far is that Mainstage becomes instable when you insert an external AU plugin on a bus. What I want is setting up a global FX or looper on the concert level, some reverb and route normal channels through it using the FX send/return. You can of course use Augustus as an insert FX in a channel itself but that only works if you have a single layer patch. Also, I have read the Augustus manual and it says you can run multiple instances of it, synced or unsynced. I’m not sure what the best way is to control these individual instances from a single midi foot controller and avoid the situation where multiple instances react at the same time. So something like the track concept where you use the previous and next track commands within a single looper. A maximum of 3 instances is about the maximum number of tracks I use live. I could probably do this using Bidule but I believe I can’t use the Logic AU plugins outside of Mainstage or Logic itself. Hmmmm.... Btw: I really like the feature set and sound of Augustus 2.0, good stuff :) --- Sjaak http://www.livelooping.be/ http://www.overgaauw.be/ http://www.myspace.com/sjaakovergaauw __________________________________ Scarlet schrapt download limiet! ADSL20 NO LIMIT voor € 29,95. Ga naar www.scarlet.be voor meer info!