Re: Llive llooping, Cardiff, Wales

[jim palmer <jimp@pobox.com>]

i'm thinking that the single space rack mount pc's they sell as 
network servers might be cool.
add a flat panel moniter (maybe with a touch screen)
and rack it up with the capybara

like the kyma wasn't expensive enough in the first place...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "whiteoakstudios" <whiteoakstudios@supanet.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Llive llooping, Cardiff, Wales


> Hi,
> I used to use audiomulch running on a desktop PC with an old, beaten up
> monitor. This worked really well and It NEVER crashed ! The nice thing 
>about
> Kyma though is that even if the computer gives up the ghost halfway 
>through
> a piece of music Kyma will carry on, (though you'll have to reboot for 
>the
> next patch). The first time I used Kyma live was with a secondhand laptop
> which I'd only just bought. I didn't have time to soak test the thing 
>and as
> I got up to perform I noticed there was no screen - no problem I thought 
>-
> I'll just wiggle my finger around on the mousepad and the screen will 
>come
> back on........ no joy - it had gone into some power saving mode so I was
> stuck in front of the audience unable to bring it back. Since it would 
>have
> taken about 2 minutes to bring the system back from a cold boot, (2 
>minutes
> onstage doing nothing musically is roughly equivalent to about 2 hours
> normal time) I had to resort to my trusty Zoom 8080 so a lot of my ideas
> didn't come off. Since then though it's been ok. I'll be honest, I'd 
>like to
> leave the computer at home when gigging but it's the price I have to pay 
>for
> THE POWER OF KYMA!!!!!!
> 
> > cool.
> > have you performed before with the kyma?
> > i am still at the crawling stages with mine,
> > but it seems like it would be great for live
> > performance.
> > are you using the laptop interface or hauling
> > a desktop system around?
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'll be playing live in Cardiff on the last Wednesday of this month
> using
> > > cheap guitars, (including my Beezzarre geetarre) and African 
>percussion
> > > through a Kyma system.
> 
> 
>