Totally computerized real time equipment?

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

Since there are more and more applications available and the 
discussion is up here, I would like to ask people that work real time 
on computer:

How far are we from implementing the whole equipment in a PowerBook?
(I dont think I would have a big problem to use it on stage since I 
neither play in beer ambiences nor at Carnegie Hall ;-).

I imagine use the guitar, some personal analog effects and a MIDI 
pedal board like pc1600 to feed the PowerBook where the digital 
effects (pitch shift, modulations...), looping, and final reverb 
would happen so I could connect the power amp directly to the 
PowerBook output.
Hopefully the computer could also record the result and maybe add some 
drums...
So to keep the delay low, it takes an audio card which then does not 
fit into the PowerBook?
Can we connect a sequence of effects internally internally in real 
time, even if they have different formats like: plug in effects ->MAX 
looper -> HD recorder?
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