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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote: > At my last loop show i had 3 crashes as well luckily after a piece! Holy shit! I've had two looping crashes. One on my EDP at a concert in 2004 (I unplugged the power chord and rebooted it to get back on track) and one on my MacBook during rehearsal with some extra stuff added for test. But I don't put extra stuff into my laptop rig for concerts. And I always "over-abuse" the system when rehearsing, to explore the outer limits. Right now I'm setting up a system to be used on a tour starting ten days from now. Yesterday I had around 60 patches in MainStage and found that to be a "memory limit" for the MacBook with 4 GB memory. So I got rid of most virtual instrument patches that use long samples and deleted some variations of mic input sounds. Now I'm back down again at 20 patches; ten mic input patches, nine MIDI driven virtual instrument patches and one guitar input patch (also using floor stomp boxes with the guitar). That's almost exactly the setup I've been using so successfully in Bidule + Mobius under Windows XP on many computers over the years. I'm expanding the setup just bit now tho, in MainStage, by also adding some post loop live processing (filterbank, distortion, ring modulator) which is new for me. I will rehears for at least three hours a day in ten days with this setup before I dare to use it on stage. If it won't pass the test I can reboot into XP and perform with the Bidule rig or grab my back-up PC laptop that has a simpler Bidule+Mobius rig in XP service pack 2 (never upgraded) that still works stable as a clock after many years. Per