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Rick - I will donate my old laptop and bring it to Y2K8. It is a Compaq Presario 2525US 2.4ghz (INTEL Pentium 4) 500MG of RAM Win XP Home Include the Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA soundcard for Laptop (24 bit) It is loaded with a ton of Software that will work fine, but what I purchased will not be re-installable if the computer is re-built. Software includes: Mobius (older version that can be updated easily) Chainer (VST Host) EnergyXT (VST Host) Waves (mastering suite) PSP84 (VST) PSP42 (VST) SpaceEffect (VST) Finale 2005 Antares Filter Antares Kantos FlexFX (VST) VocFX (VST) Microsoft Office WaveLab Roughly 400 free VST effects of every sort and flavor Kris ----- Original Message ----- >I just gave away a computer I inherited from my father to > a local Goth/Industrial musician on the proviso that he > use it for making music and it suddenly occured to me: > > > A lot of us have old computers laying around that would be fine for > doing some live or even canned looping. > > Personally, I have an old 1.3 ghz P4 sitting in my house that is > all taken apart (with the best intentions of rebuilding it and upgrading > until I ended up buying a newer one). > > I was thinking it would be a very cool thing is anyone has this stuff > lying > around and have Matthias Grob or Andrew Ostler or Jeff Larson or whoever > has invented some looping softare to donate a looping software package > to said old used computers and give them away to young aspiring > live loopers who might not have the money to purchase such a thing. > > In the year 1998, two good friends of mine gifted me a Mac computer and > basically baby sat me into understanding how to use it to make music > just because they had the faith in me that I would do something really > creative > with it. Now, ten years later I make probably 1/3 to 1/2 of my >income > because > I've really learned how to do it on both platforms. > > I never could have afforded to do it at the time and now I'm teaching > young musicians > how to make music with a computer. A small miracle. > > Does anyone have such a computer laying around? > I imagine it would need to be at least a P4 or equivalent processor of a > 1ghz or more > or the equivalent Mac computer. > > It's just a thought, but I thought it might be a cool thing to do >ritually > at the Y2K festival each year. > > Towards that end, read my next email to the list. > > Cheers, yours in creativity and fostering community, Rick Walker >