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Re: Using a laptop onstage: Dominic Frasca's take is misguided
That's great news. What's the street price on your hardware?
TravisH
On 1/5/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> >>> Travis Hartnett wrote:
> >>>> If anyone out
> >>>> there is doing all their signal processing and looping on a laptop,
> >>>> I'd love to hear the specs of what they're using
>
> I can do it without bogging down my processor too much, but it still
>isn't
> stable enough for me to go live given my effect requirements. I can run
>my
> VST host (EnergyXT) with various VST effects (reverb, chorus, delay, and
> some tone mangling stuff) and Mobius as a VST. It works most of the time,
> but occasionally the systems crashes if I try some really wild stuff,
> looping while shifting between various complex VST effects and patches,
>etc.
> However, my effect requirements are intense (using VST programs like
>Antares
> Filter, PSP84), and I don't think this is a processor or notebook issue
>(my
> processor usage is still moderate in this context), but a contention
>issue
> between the software. I'm running a Compaq Presario 2525US, Pentium 4,
>2.4
> Ghz, 500MG of RAM. It could be a cache issue, however
>
> If I were looping with the above, minus the effects gymnastics...meaning,
> I'm just using reverb, chorus, and delay, with Mobius...then, yes, no
> problem, I would perform with nothing but my laptop. I'd plug my acoustic
> guitar straight into my soundcard, and go directly out into my mixer
>board.
>
> Now, I'll try my souped up system on the new laptop I get later in the
>year,
> on one of the new Intel dual core notebooks, which also have a dual cache
> setup. I've seen the specs and the performance benchmark comparisons on
>the
> processors, in the context of gaming and music applications, and how
>they
> deal with the severe strain of more than one application trying to
>perform
> their tasks, and they kick butt. My wife is convinced I'll be able to do
> what I want with these new notebooks.
>