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
