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Re: Crazy idea to help us grow our community



Hey, did you ever get that magazine?
On Oct 14, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> Rick - I will donate my old laptop and bring it to Y2K8.
>
> It is a Compaq Presario 2525US
> 2.4ghz (INTEL Pentium 4)
> 500MG of RAM
> Win XP Home
> Include the Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA soundcard for Laptop (24 bit)
>
> It is loaded with a ton of Software that will work fine, but what I  
> purchased will not be re-installable if the computer is re-built.  
> Software includes:
>
> Mobius (older version that can be updated easily)
> Chainer (VST Host)
> EnergyXT (VST Host)
> Waves (mastering suite)
> PSP84 (VST)
> PSP42 (VST)
> SpaceEffect (VST)
> Finale 2005
> Antares Filter
> Antares Kantos
> FlexFX (VST)
> VocFX (VST)
> Microsoft Office
> WaveLab
> Roughly 400 free VST effects of every sort and flavor
>
> Kris
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>> I just gave away a computer I inherited from my father to
>> a local Goth/Industrial musician on the proviso that he
>> use it for making music and it suddenly occured to me:
>>
>>
>> A lot of us have old computers laying around that would be fine for
>> doing some live or even canned looping.
>>
>> Personally,  I have an old 1.3 ghz P4 sitting in my house that is
>> all taken apart (with the best intentions of rebuilding it and  
>> upgrading
>> until I ended up buying a newer one).
>>
>> I was thinking it would be a very cool thing is anyone has this  
>> stuff lying
>> around and have Matthias Grob or Andrew Ostler or Jeff Larson or  
>> whoever
>> has invented some looping softare to donate a looping software  
>> package
>> to said old used computers and give them away to young aspiring
>> live loopers who might not have the money to purchase such a thing.
>>
>> In the year 1998,  two good friends of mine gifted me a Mac  
>> computer and
>> basically baby sat me into understanding how to use it to make music
>> just because they had the faith in me that I would do something  
>> really creative
>> with it.      Now, ten years later I make probably 1/3 to 1/2 of  
>> my income because
>> I've really learned how to do it on both platforms.
>>
>> I never could have afforded to do it at the time and now I'm  
>> teaching young musicians
>> how to make music with a computer.    A small miracle.
>>
>> Does anyone have such a computer laying around?
>> I imagine it would need to be at least a P4 or equivalent  
>> processor of a 1ghz or more
>> or the equivalent Mac computer.
>>
>> It's just a thought, but I thought it might be a cool thing to do  
>> ritually at the Y2K festival each year.
>>
>> Towards that end,   read my next email to the list.
>>
>> Cheers,  yours in creativity and fostering community,    Rick Walker
>