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Yes, you are correct. I left out that because I mentioned it in an earlier post. Don't want to clogg down the list too much ;-) per On 5 jan 2006, at 23.28, Travis Hartnett wrote: > But if I read this correctly, your instrument itself was already > processed prior to the signal entering the laptop? That is, you've > got some sort of preamp/effects setup outside of the computer? > > TravisH > > On 1/5/06, Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: >>> Travis Hartnett wrote: >>>> If anyone out >>>> there is doing all their signal processing and looping on a laptop, >>>> I'd love to hear the specs of what they're using. >> >> >> >> An example of CPU efficiency: >> >> I have been running almost identical Ableton Live looping set-ups on >> a powerbook and a centrino PC laptop. The CPU meter of Live does show >> 70-90% on the powerbook and 30-40% on the pc. Below are >> specifications. >> >> Powerbook 15". 1,25 MHz, 2G ram. >> Zepto "Centrino" laptop. Intel P M 755 2.0 GHz Dothan. 1 GB ram. >> >> On the pc the looping was done on four tracks, in four parallel loops >> of Möbius VST plug-in (distributing through four Ableton channels). >> On the Mac looping were done on two tracks, in two parallel loops of >> Augustus Loop. Except that both environments had the same post >> treatment plug-ins applied as send/return loops: 2 Pluggo effects, 1 >> OhmBoyz delay, Abletons' Reverb. Two or three effect plug-ins were >> also applied directly on the tracks hosting loops. >> >> To save CPU, no software compressor was used, but both laptop outputs >> were run through a hardware master stereo compressor before going >> into the PA.