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----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Simon" > OK, maybe this is geeky, but it's on topic and hopefully of interest. > I just assembled a new computer that I plan to use with Mobius and > Bidule or Usine. It's got the Core 2 Duo E6400 processor. > > http://art.simon.tripod.com/LoopingRig/ Nice and informative web site, Art! That Rolls audio interface looks nice, I didn't know about that one. This looks like a good start. For gigs you'll need to come up with some transportation trunk that also carries a flat screen, your FCB and all cables. Any plans on the drawing desk? :-) I think you will need that extra CPU power. From my own test lab activities I have come to the conclusion that the type of sound effect patches I like to play with in my TC Electronic FireworX takes up to the full hundred percent of my one processor 2 GHz Centrino. This means I would weight in at about half the available CPU recourse level, on a core 2 duo, and 50 % is pretty much the limit I've found you should not go over if you want to have a rock solid system for performing live with. However, besides this geeky stuff looking quite good, I've found another drawback with going software only and that is me loosing valuable time into testing and trouble-shooting. When working with VSTs (as is the only option under Windows and I need to use Windows because of Mobius) you have to test every combination of chaining different VST plug-ins because some are badly written and tend to crash the system in certain situations. For example, I needed a noise gate that closes and opens at a certain pace given by a LFO and then this LFO syncing to the global tempo (given by Looper Mobius) but rhythmically modulated (tempo division) by MIDI cc data from an expression pedal. On the FireworX it takes me a couple of minutes to set up such a patch but with VST's I was only able to find one noise gate that fitted the bill - but as soon as this particular plug-in is chained in Bidule the MIDI cc data crashes Bidule. Without that plug- in the Bidule rig is totally stable. Bad luck. So, even if it's both fun and rewarding to design your own patches in software I'm reverting back to using the laptop with the FirworX digitally connecting and doubling as the audio interface. For the digital input and bringing out the master into the PA I need to carry a third little box, the RME Multiface. Three small boxes plus instruments, pedals and cables is not that heavy but the software only laptop rig still the dream of the future ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom