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The lovely Jeff said about working with MAX/MSP on a laptop - >>still loving it, and latency not bothering me at all. Particularly since leaving the m-audio interface behind.....<< one of the major differences between your music and mine is that your sound source is acoustic - so your relationship with latency is going to be very different in that you're already dealing with two separate sounds - the acoustic one and the processed one. A 7-10 millisecond latency on that is going to be pretty hard to pick up, I'd have thought... For me as a bassist, especially when playing percussively, I find the disconnect that I feel when presented with that kind of latency is just nasty. I could deal with it if I was using the direct monitoring thing through the soundcard, but that would then mean that I'd need an external processor as well, and would defeat the point of using a laptop. :o) We're talking about tiny tiny latency margins here, and loads of people are going to find that they don't notice them at all. For those peoples, a laptop is a cool way to go, if they don't mind having a laptop on stage etc. Gimme hardware any day of the week. Now if there was a hardware box that'd run Max/MSP with the kind of undetectable latency that the Looperlative is running (I think Bob said something silly like 0.3 of a millisecond - and someone else said it was less than the time it takes for an acoustic guitar signal to reach the ear of the player... Don't quote me on that though... ;o) cheers! Steve www.stevelawson.net - site www.stevelawson.net/store/ - shop http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog www.myspace.com/solobasstevelawson