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I meant to add as well the fest and our other shows circled around it were my first experiences with Mobius live beyond using it a few times on my webcast and the recent VSV. It was quite successful. I used it costantly on the Noisefest and Loopfest sets. For the LA show on Sunday I used it subtly as I did more realtime playing. I should also mention and I credit Rainer for this. I couldn't afford a pedal system to work with my laptop and Mobiuse at this time. Rainer did some research for me and came with with an excellent $60 solution for me - the Frag Pedal from gamingmouse.coim. The pedal has. 4 programable foot buttons that you assign to keys on the keyboard. I had the 4 pedal buttons mapped within Mobius as follows, R to record, G for global reset, V to reverse and N for next track. It was minimal but worked really well for my purposes this trip. As I grow with the app I will eventually get something more robust. Jim On 10/21/09, kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com <kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com> wrote: > Actually, there were only two "hardware loopers" that I recall: > > . Stanosaur (acoustic feedback) > > and > > . Daryl Shawn (tape looping) > > The other devices were all digital in the form of a: > > . dedicated looping device > > or > > . looping software running on a general purpose computer > > I would be most curious with a breakdown of hardware vs. software >failures. > > Last weekend, the failure (during my set) was a hardware failure. My > computer overheated and shut down. When I came back up, I propped the > computer to provide better ventilation to its fan and it didn't crash > again. So, though I used a laptop, to classify it as a software > failure would be inaccurate. > > (Incidentally, my particular laptop is a Toshiba and, to be quite > honest, I've never been happy with the computer due to its hardware. > I just haven't had the money to replace it and, thus, I have to work > around issues. My next computer will NOT be a laptop -- I will custom > build a computer into a case that is rack-mountable. I want to be > able to choose my own Firewire card, video cards, etc. With a laptop > one is stuck with the hardware that is hardwired onto the mother board.) > > Last year my LP1 stopped working and I had to send it back to Bob for > repair. He replaced some hardware on it, so I presume it was a > hardware issue. > > In looking back over problems I've had, it has always been hardware. > I've never had a software program failure in a performance setting. > > -- Kevin > > Quoting cpr@musetrap.com: > >> I had a crash (actually a 'hang') on my LP1... but, that device >> certainly blurs the line between software and hardware.. lol.. I think >> the dividing line should actually be 'stand alone looper' vs 'computer >> based looper'... >> >> -cpr >> >> Quoting Sjaak Overgaauw <tcplugin@gmail.com>: >> >>> I know Michael and Bill have been counting the different setups >>> (hardware / software) and the crashes. It was about 50-50 on Saturday >>> but I'm curious at the statistics. >>> >>> Btw: Rick, once again thanks for organizing this great festival, we >>> really enjoyed it, both the musical and social part of it :) >>> >>> >>> Sjaak Overgaauw >>> http://premonitionfactory.com/ >>> http://livelooping.be/ >>> http://euroloopfest.com/ >>> >>> > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device ReUse, an introspective textural aural www.myspace.com/CtReUse music links... www.jimgoodinmusic.com www.chinapaintingmusic.com www.myspace.com/jimgoodinmusic www.myspace.com/chinapaintingmusic www.myspace.com/jimgoodinviolinelectro www.myspace.com/jindream www.youtube.com/jimgoodinmusic video work/editing... www.vimeo.com/jimgoodindigital social networking... www.twitter.com/jimgoodinmusic