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RE: wanted: MIDI watchdog

Dear Rainer,
   Hi. I have been running laptops for about 5 years now and have never 
once
had a crash. I use Winbook. They are out if Columbus, Ohio. I was just
telling someone the other day as to how I will not ever own anymore 
desktops
(PC's), because these are so bomb proof. Please don't misunderstand me. I
may not be using it for the exact same thing as you, but I do steel design
and drawings in it and these are usually real hard on a computer. I do a
Yamaha Tyros keyboard program in it and other music programs. This laptop 
is
loaded up pretty good with programs. It is my on the road computer. I hope
this helped you out some.

In God's loving service,
Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill [mailto:rs@moinlabs.de] 
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:26 AM
To: Looper's Delight Mailing List
Subject: wanted: MIDI watchdog

Do any of you know of a device that does the following:

It will react to a lack of MIDI clock (or a lack of a defined MIDI
message recurring regularily) and when this event occurs, start to
either

        * send a MIDI message
        * start to play something itself (i.e. cheap drum machine, loop
(!))

And it should be cheap! And it shouldn't be a piece of software.

The idea behind this. I don't trust in laptops. With the setup I'm
currently about to create, situations are imaginable where the musical
flow will be endangered when the laptop crashes. So if it fails, I want
something to continue "in the beat".

        Rainer