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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 22:36:PM Subject: kim's refreshing insight > > I hear a lot of what Kim is saying (and eloquently put, btw). > > The only mitigating factor for me is that > the music I can create in 20 minutes by using > Fruity Loops Pro (as a drum machine and crude midi sequencer), > Tu2 (loop mangler supreme), Kantos (audio triggered synth from > Antares that is awesome), ACID (where I put it all together) > and Sound Forge (with a zillion mangling plugins) > is just astonishing. > > I can create sophisticated tracks and pieces that would have > taken hours or days to create (if at all) 10 years ago in my > life. > > My understanding (and it is probably naive) is that > you basicaly go A-D, run it through software and then D-A > and that this simple model rules all digital processing. > > Of course if you are trying to do e-mail and edit simultaneously > (and I lost a mastering exercise the other day because my pesky > 56k modem disconnected.....;-) you can't expect for the machine to > run properly, but in these days of 3 ghz Pentium 4s (and whatever they > are up to on the Mac side), the processing power is screaming. > > Like every instrument, the computer has it's drawbacks and limitations > but, I have to say, for pound for pound sheer creative potential it is > the most incredible instrument that I've ever played in my whole life > (and I've played quite a few). > > If some people like DAWs.........that's great > If some people think there is more JuJu in Analogue tape.............groovy. > Truly, it's all good. > > I just promised myself I would never buy a closed architecture computer > instrument > again in my life.............it's what, frankly, scares me about purchasing > a laptop > (whose CPUs tend to be soldered onto their respective boards making them > impossible to upgrade). > > There, I said it..............lol Yes indeedy! Laptops are a scary investment especially considering that fact! However I understand this even is changing. Generic laptop parts are available via a few firms in the UK, therefore this must have been the case in the US for some time now. I would wager that one could make a generic laptop for about $500, and the major cost would be the screen. However, I put THIS to you: Why a laptop? Why not one of those keyboard-as-PC kits, with a flat screen monitor? It might be fairly cheap to slap one of those together as well, and have a reliable unit at that. Those of you in the US who've bought hardware lately would know. Steve Goodman EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net/Gallery - Cartoons and Illustrations! http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack - Cartoons via Medialine!