Re: OT: Laptop loopers, what do you do with your favorite rack gear?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

nothing - I hate my rack gear. My "favorites" never were the gear,  
but the patches I set up with that gear.  I simply leave it to  
collect dust (and eventually for me to place my laptop and coffee cup  
on to adopt a convenient posture while working on duplicating my  
favorite effect patches in software, briefly looking out the window  
every two hours to see if it's snow or leafs that are falling...)

I borrowed an Eventide Eclipse for a month and have owned a Firworx  
for one and a half year and by studying them I found out which way to  
patch effect modules to get the sounds I like (just like changing the  
order of guitar pedals - they all sound different at other positions  
in the chain). Now computers have become powerful enough to handle it  
all in software. I don't have the money to buy the machine I actually  
would need for it, but since I know I can do it later I have started  
to work out a system that is small and easy to manage and play  
fluently with. My "system" is almost the same in hardware and  
software - it's more about "patches"; like how I like to connect for  
example two dual pitch shifters with a stereo delay and compressor.  
Etc etc...

per