Re: Least Costly Looping Solution

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

I don't know jack about this, but is it necessary to have the MIDI 
equipment? If it's just to be able to control functions remotely, I'd 
call that a secondary need. Couldn't one just buy one of the cheap 
M-Audio interfaces (i.e., Fast Track) for less than $100, plug a guitar 
or mic in, and use the mouse or keyboard to control the looping 
functions in Mobius? Manual control isn't so bad, I've always used my 
loopers on a tabletop anyway.

(I do think hardware is an easier/more understandable way to get 
started, though...).

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> However, there is still the fact that a computer solution does not
> come "ready to use out of the box". You need to setup various things,
> and actually using it for more than a first "I use my laptop
> microphone and push buttons onscreen with my mouse" test run of e.g.
> Mobius requires you to get a decent audio interface (or at the least
> adapter cables), a MIDI interface and a MIDI controller - all of which
> sum up to more than a cheap hardware looper.