Re: [microsound] more performance questions

[Brian Whitman <bwhitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very soon (I'm not saying you'll be using our particular hardware, but)
very soon, the market will be re-born and optimized for people like you
and me! All in one sampler/sequencer/synths/video processors (!) that are
battery powered and not dependent on an OS meant for word processing are
quite feasible and being worked on, we just need to let the marketers
catch up.

Right now we've got a lot of toys that can be hooked up to each other with
a mess of jumper wires and solder (palm pilot, porta-dsps (a-d kits,
videoport), the PMA-5, qy10 etc etc) but I assure you the "laptop shift"
is not being ignored by People in Charge of Things. They'd want no other
pleasure than to sell you a $800 glorified DSP chip with custom firmware
in a handheld form factor. And amen to that, I'm first in line to buy one.
I can't carry my MPC on the subway downtown anymore, my arms hurt.



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Brian Whitman
bwhitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Crudites Sound Ventures


On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, taylor deupree wrote:

> a lot of it, for me, comes down to portability.
> 
> i could do my live set with a sampler and a sequencer ( a software
> sequencer).. but i could do the same thing with a single laptop.. i'd
> much rather just bring the laptop..

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