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Re: LAPTOP recommendations for LIVE LOOPING?
Hi rick I use an edirol usb keyboard it has midi in/out +more controllers
than the oxygen + Mbox
this gets round the midi in out problem as its on the usb keyboard.
Geoff
on 1/4/03 8:56 am, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL at GLOBAL@cruzio.com wrote:
> I am in the market for a laptop computer so that I can
> record, use Ableton's LIVE as a realtime performance enhancer
> and use real time USB/Midi control over soft synths.
>
> A trusted friend of mine in digital audio said that there are a plethora
> of known conflicts on the PC side with sound cards and laptop computers
>and
> advised me to figure out what sound card I wanted; then to go to their
> website and
> ask specifically what computers configurations they would recommend to
>put
> that sound card into.
>
> I would really love to get some advise on
>
> 1) What sound card would you recommend for a laptop computer
>
> given that
> a) I want to record my live shows in stereo in real time
> b) I want to run Ableton's LIVE in real time with midi
> cc control of samples and effects
> c) I want to be able to use an OXYGEN keyboard to play
> soft synths live
> d) If it is possible, I would like to use PEAK's V-Box
> to host ANTARES audio/synth converter live (to, in essence
> be able to sing live synth lines in real time)
>
> I anticipate using a Digi Designs M-box to get audio signal into the
> computer.
>
> What have you bought that you dig in terms of a sound card.
> It needs to have USB 2 and midi/in out (and preferably SPDIF if that's
>even
> possible).
>
> Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom.
>
> See you all at LOOPSTOCK this weekend,
>
> yours, Rick Walker
>