From: Daryl Shawn
[mailto:highhorse@mhorse.com]
> These discussions of laptop
looping are fascinating to me...
I think your points are sound, except
perhaps for this one:
> And if something does go wrong,
with something like the Looperlative I
> can get in touch with the
developer and get assistance that will cover
> anything that has gone
amiss.
The Looperlative is the exception here. If your EDP
or Repeater breaks
down in Des
Moines Iowa, who you gonna call? Assuming you can have a
replacement
Fedexd to you, you're still looking at a day of down time,
and if you need it
fixed it's at least a week.
It certainly takes planning and
discipline, but if I were a touring
musician I'm confident I could resurrect
my entire system on a
borrowed laptop in a few hours provided I could
reinstall the OS.
If the problem was in the audio interface, any Best Buy carries
products that will do in a pinch. But you do have
to know what
you're
doing and plan for this.
> Then there's the latency. Any
perceptible amount seems insurmountable
> to me. I wouldn't want to have
to do a workaround if one day I decided
> to start singing into the thing,
then realizing I need to "adjust" to
> compensate, as was discussed
earlier this week.
If I understood correctly, the
latency issue being discussed had
nothing to do with laptops, but with the
"air latency" between an
accoustic instrument (such as a voice) and a monitor
speaker
far enough away that the speed of sound causes a perceptable delay.
You would have the same problem
with a dedicated hardware device.
Jeff
