Re: breakbeats -- the quest for a groovebox

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I don't have a TiBook, but I'm not sure if I'd want to gig with one 
unless I had some sort of USB or Firewire sound interface.  I jammed 
with a guy who was using one and his outputs were noisy as hell 
compared to mine.

However, I dream of the day this (what I do musically) can all be done 
via a laptop.  I've played with Reason and Rebirth338 and I thought 
they sounded good.  Whenever my job requires something modern and 
dancey, I'm in Rebirth.  Not sure how they'd stand up to the real 
thing, but I bet pretty good.  One thing for sure, is that you're not 
going to get the wealth of knobs and tweakability of the modern 
grooveboxes.  Sure, the virtual knobs are there, but manipulating them 
with a mouse doesn't cut it at all.

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 05:39 PM, jimfowler wrote:

> when i saw TELEFON TEL AVIV (great band ((from new orleans of all 
> places))
> that's worth checking out, to say the least), they had three titanium 
> macs,
> fender rhodes, bass, two guitars, and a handful of virtual synths.  
> needless
> to say, their sound was incredible.  they're definitely "electronic" 
> but i
> like that all three know how to play traditional instruments very well.
>
> but anyhow, their beats were rad as hell.
>
> anybody know what hardware tom was using for his first few records?
>
> -jim
>
>