Re: MIDI sync survey: is it important to you?

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

--- Dan Montgomery <dmont@knology.net> wrote:

> As a note, in researching a band that uses Prop
> head's Reason, they say multiple members of the
> group use laptops on-stage with reason, but they opt
> to /not/ sync.  Their experience is that if the
> laptops are linked and one crashes, they all go. 

That sounds silly to me.  Two laptops synced via midi
aren't awear of each other's presence in any way that
could cause a sympathy crash.  If one is slaved to the
other and the leader crashes it could/would cause your
software to stop.  I've had Digital Performer crash
and send out a wacky tempo message as it goes down
causing my Repeater to go crazy.  It ended up being a
really weird beautiful moment.

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