Re: Looping Laptops in general (WAS Products, Services, and LoopingGear "Packages")

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Yeah, these are good points. EDP is a bit easier probably, as they can be had at a lot of music stores, the Repeater not so much.

That'd be a good friend that would allow you to re-install their OS...! But that's good to hear that it's possible to pull things together again without too much time.   Probably the caveat - as with touring in your own bus - is that you gotta know how to maintain your own stuff, especially so with a computer system.

I thought the latency discussed by Rainer was that created by the laptop, but I may have misunderstood.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com

The Looperlative  is the exception here.  If your EDP or  Repeater breaks
down in Des Moines Iowa, who you gonna call?  Assuming you can have a
replacement Fedexd to you, you're still looking at a day of down time,
and if you need it fixed it's at least a week. 

 

It certainly takes planning and discipline, but if I were a touring
musician I'm confident I could resurrect my entire system on a
borrowed laptop in a few hours provided I could reinstall the OS.
If the problem was in the audio interface, any Best Buy carries

products that will do in a pinch.  But you do have to know what

you're doing and plan for this.

 

> Then there's the latency. Any perceptible amount seems insurmountable
> to me. I wouldn't want to have to do a workaround if one day I decided
> to start singing into the thing, then realizing I need to "adjust" to
> compensate, as was discussed earlier this week.

 

If I understood correctly, the latency issue being discussed had
nothing to do with laptops, but with the "air latency" between an
accoustic instrument (such as a voice) and a monitor speaker
far enough away that the speed of sound causes  a  perceptable delay.
You would have the same problem with a dedicated hardware device.

 

Jeff