Re: MIDI sync survey: is it important to you?

[Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>]

mark sottilaro wrote:
> --- Dan Montgomery <dmont@knology.net> wrote:
> 
>> As a note, in researching a band that uses Prop
>> head's Reason, they say multiple members of the
>> group use laptops on-stage with reason, but they opt
>> to /not/ sync.  Their experience is that if the
>> laptops are linked and one crashes, they all go. 
> 
> That sounds silly to me.  Two laptops synced via midi
> aren't awear of each other's presence in any way that
> could cause a sympathy crash.  If one is slaved to the
> other and the leader crashes it could/would cause your
> software to stop.  

and in a live situation you definitely don't want that. Which is why 
many smart people use an external drum machine to control all connected 
slaves.

Andreas / sync-whore.