cheap looping?

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

> ---- Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> wrote: 

> > added feature... If you want 'cheap' looping, get
> a laptop and stick  Mobius or SooperLooper on it. I
tried them and
> couldn't deal with the  hassle of the latency and
the faff of using
> something as fragile as a  laptop...

Cheap looping from a laptop?  I must counter you
there.  I'm looking at building a laptop rig based on
Per's posts and there's nothing cheap about it.  By
the time you buy a decent laptop ($1200) and an audio
interface ($200-700) you've spent as much as you'd
spend on a pair of EDPs or a Looperlative and you
don't even have one lick of software on that box.  It
might as well be a 6 lb brick.  Throw something like
Reaktor on it and you're well above the cost of any
hardware looper currently in production.

What you do gain from a laptop is flexability and
portability.  As Steve mentioned, what you loose is
latency and stability.  What's important to you is up
to you.  Steve makes great music on his Looperlative,
Per makes great music on his latpop.  You definitally
don't end up spending less money by going to a laptop.
 You spend more.

Again I will jump up and down yelling, "it's not that
one is better than another, it's just a matter of
finding the tool that works for you."  Don't mix up
"cost" and "value."

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