Re: [microsound] Wired News :DJ Turns the Tables on Tradition

[Mark Khemma <mkhemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 jason.frank@xxxxxxx wrote:

> "The system -- a laptop, software and the set-top box --
> retails for $23,000. While the price tag seems high, it's
> a drop in the bucket for many
> professional spinners, who can net thousands of dollars a
> night for performances."
>
> ah hah! one more tool of the burgoise oppressors. again
> we see the dominance of market forces and early adoption
> masquerading as high (post)art.
>


as far as i've been told, you used to have to buy the system with the
laptop included and that roughly went for over 5000 bucks.
But now you can just get the external hardware (box + special records) and
software for rougly around 500 bucks. jeez for 23,000 dollars you can buy
and entire studio, and THEN make minimal microhouse (extra dsp for
redundancy), aaaawwww yeah!!!
Oh and it uses BeOS. has anyone use this OS? just curious. it is supposed
a more multimedia oriented OS.
-mark