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I am thinking of heading this way, too. Especially since I have strained my back carrying stuff for the last two looping gigs! I like the way my jazz setup sounds, but it's too heavy. Maybe I need to mount wheels and a handle on the pedalboard cases so I can wheel 'em around like a suitcase. <http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html> I was playing around with Reaktor this weekend on my home PC, and it was really easy to get a basic looping thing going and have a pedal control it via MIDI. Even with my crappy 500 MHz PIII and Layla 20, I could get a nice low-latency (4ms) thing happening. The fact that you can totally customize everything is great. With the hardware setup I have to step on the RC-20 to stop the drum loop after the main loop gets going, but in Reaktor I could make that all automatic, AND I could have more than 22 drums beats, AND I could add my big band horns: <http://www.marksmart.net/sounddesign/windsounds/reaktorbigband/reaktorbigband.h tml> I'm still hesitating because of the expense of a laptop, plus a new sound card (my Layla 20 won't work with the Echo PC card). But it won't be long. I'm investigating Ableton to see if that would be good for what I do. In addition to having Reaktor going, it would be cool to incorporate the B4 into it too, so I could do one-man organ trio stuff. But then I gotta bring a keyboard.... Many cool possibilities. Mark Smart http://www.marksmart.net