Re: Plex Upgrade ideas: Loose the box. (POLAR!)

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

In May, David Caplivski had a dream (below). Did you someone else realize 
it?

>>Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>> >
>> > Here's a suggestion:
>> >
>> > Why not loose the box, guts and all?  If the wonder of the EDP is in 
>the
>> > software, then let's do away with the silicon.  I've got a ton of it
>> > sitting in front of me right now.  I'd just love a software version of
>> > the Echoplex that I could run on a Macintosh.  Especially if it could
>> > sync to a MIDI sequencing program, such as Metro.
>> >
>> > Is this possible?
>>
>>Its probably possible
>>but then the loopers delight would be transformed in a bug report,
>>computer configuration hell , all the fatiguing background noize you
>>see/hear in every music software forum
>>
>>remember there is no bug in the EDP software v5 (there is one but I wont
>>tell !):-)
>>
>>Claude
>>

>Couldn't someone run a labtop (i.e. G3 powerbook) with running Digital
>Performer's P.O.L.A.R. software (performance orietated looping audio
>recording) fullly equiped with a recording gate and automatic loop 
>playback
>functions and achieve more because of the computer's memory and other
>feature's. It's an expensive proposition but one I'm looking into because
>the idea of having a portable studio and synthesizer and looping brain is 
>my
>holy grail right now.  The problem I foresee with POLAR's recording gate
>function is not so much start times but stop times.  But then again you
>could bypass this function and manually trigger start and stop times.
>
>
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