Re: Sample sound clip from my notebook computer system

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Ted, don't make us have a group intervention at Y2K6. :)   Addiction to 
hardware is a serious thing.

K-
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kaiser" <loopersdelight@pfmentum.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Sample sound clip from my notebook computer system


Ted: Sell your gear. Buy a laptop.

BTW, Lovely to chat yesterday.


Jeff


>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: tEd ® kiLLiAn
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 9:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: Sample sound clip from my notebook computer system
>>
>> Hi there Kris,
>>
>> Wow! That list of plug-ins is really impressive. The sound clip is too.
>> Quite a variety of spacey oddball noises that one could get quite
>> creative with. I love it! I am envious to the point of drooling on 
>myself
>> . . . heheh . . . almost. It's all really kinda funny/ironic to me 
>> personally
>> how this laptop thing has developed . . . and is still waaaaaay out
>> of reach for me.
>>
>> WARNING: old geezer fish-story about the "one that got away" follows.
>>
>> A dozen years ago, when I lived in Santa Barbara and worked for
>> Seymour Duncan, I had some friends who worked in some big "think
>> tank" type research centers for a couple of HUGE firms there. I'm 
>talking
>> about really bright guys, mind you. Anywho, one good friend there
>> was listening to me complain about schlepping my big rack around
>> to gigs over beer or something and I predicted that someday all of
>> this stuff would reside in software on a laptop and all I'd need for
>> a gig was a guitar, some cables, a laptop and a bank of MIDI pedals
>> to control it with -- and I'd just play through the house PA and stage
>> monitors. I hoped I lived long enough to see it.
>>
>> Well, this friend happened to actually work with computers, programming,
>> A.I., and digital signal processing on a project for the Department of 
>> Defense.
>> He hadn't told me that before because, technically, it was all 
>classified 
>> stuff
>> having something to do with "electronic counter-measures" or something.
>> Anywho, he said (a dozen years ago) that it was totally possible THEN
>> in terms of what his computers could do. Commercially available
>> consumer -level computers would soon follow.
>>
>> Later, he got a few of his work friends together for a little 
>> demonstration
>> at his house where he had me haul in all my gear, demonstrate how it
>> worked, and talk to them about the musical equipment industry -- or
>> at least what I knew about the guitar-oriented end of it as an "insider"
>> already working in the marketing end of it. At the end of the demo they
>> were all nodding their heads in agreement that such a scheme was not
>> only possible and viable . . . but probably inevitable too. Oh happy 
>> day!!!
>>
>> They were all still young-ish middle aged guys and they though it would
>> be a great way to escape the world of "building a better bomb for the
>> Pentagon" and do something positive and creative with their lives.
>> Well, life happens. While they were all still scheming about this little
>> hobby-horse, one guy's wife got pregnant. Another went through a nasty
>> divorce, another guy (my friend) got transferred to Boston (of all 
>> places).
>> It never went any further than that . . . talking and thinking about it
>> . . . and dreaming of the day. I did some GUI sketches . . .that's all.
>>
>> Now, it's apparent, that the day is actually here and I have too much 
>> money
>> and experience tied up in hardware . . . and my now ancient back is 
>> really
>> killing me. I never told you. But, I injured my elbow too in Boise 
>> lifting my rack
>> during load-out. It's didn't hurt all that much at the time. But it got 
>> worse
>> and worse over the next month or so to the point that I had to go in to
>> the Doctor and get a cortisone shot directly in the elbow for "tennis 
>> elbow"
>> a couple of weeks ago. The old body is simply falling apart.
>>
>> Anyway, I digress, laptop technology is finally here, I need it 
>> desperately
>> and I cannot afford it. That's the irony. Life happens.
>>
>> Like I said, your list of plug-ins (and the sound they make) are very 
>> impressive.
>> I am practically soiling myself over them as it is. You're going to 
>have 
>> to
>> set me down and give me a serious demo at the next gig in Boise at the 
>> end
>> of August. So . . . there is just one more reason for me to look 
>forward 
>> to it.
>>
>> Peace,
>>
>> Ted