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

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>Sounds like an idea that I can't get out of my head, ridiculous as it is. 
> I
>envision a band consisting of 2 guitars (ideally Sticks or Warrs, but
>whatever) equipped with synth pickups, and a drummer using a V-Drum kit.
>Instead of each player having his own rack of effects, samplers, et  al...
>EVERYONE's signal goes into one G3 Powerbook, which has all the sound
>samples and looping software onboard, and then a simple controller for 
>each
>person to manipulate his own signal and loops.  Plus, since everyone's got
>access to the same sounds, the drummer could use guitar/bass patches, and
>vice versa.  For a bonus, you could even let a fourth person sit at the
>computer and act as a DJ, controlling the loops and manipulating the 
>sounds
>in real-time while the other three play.

yes,yes, and 1 pedal board/musician chained to the USB port with a display
on it that is controlled by the computer to tell you what function each
foot switch has at the moment.

>Is such a thing even technically possible?  And, if so, how much moolah
>would all this crap cost?

Certainly less than all the samplers and mixing desks you economize.
But what if it crashes? Take a break. Maybe not too bad. The worst is when
the sound hangs at the crash....Piiiiiii !


>> 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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