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Re: Y2K8: Software Loopers and Hardware Loopers





well said ... here, here !

I don't know what the average age of people on this list is ...... but I would suspect that the younger the reader, the lower their distrust of laptops ..... which in recent years have definitely gotten to a point of reliablity comparable to traditional "hardware".




From: "Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:52 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Y2K8: Software Loopers and Hardware Loopers


> hm, could be that hardware just WORKS.

Yeah, my laptop (a piece of hardware running looping software), just WORKS.
:)

Kris


----- Original Message -----

> hm, could be that hardware just WORKS.

> On Nov 2, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Rick Walker wrote:
>
>> Coming out of my post loopfestival coma that I always seem to go
>> into each year, I noticed a really surprising thing at the
>> loopfestival this year:
>>
>> From being on this list I just assumed that the festival would be
>> increasingly dominated by laptop
>> live loopers but by a cursory count (and this is very cursory) I think
>> I only saw three or four people
>> using laptops in their sets. Everybody else (35-40 artists) were
>> using hardware.
>>
>> I was shocked by this.
>>
>> Maybe the hardware people on the list just aren't as vociferous or as
>> prolific as posters
>> as the software people.
>>
>> What do you'all think?
>>
>