i think lee hit it right on here. i was going to say fuk equipment ....
but didn't want to offend anyone.
my dream setup would be a monster - gig harddrive with speed of sound RAM
and a MIDI interface connecting all sound sources.. then, i'd have a
visual aid (MIDI triggered) for live perf. so the audience wouldn't get
bored...... and a MIDI triggered New Castle on draft so that i wouldn't
get bored....
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Azzarello <roswell@antioch-college.edu>
To: idm <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: (idm) lets talk equip.
quoted 22 lines Fuck, equipment. I have a korg N5 that I use as a midi comtroller and an>Fuck, equipment. I have a korg N5 that I use as a midi comtroller and an
>Akai s2000 which I use for everything else. My computer is an old Power
>Computing mac clone from the early 90s. I run cubase on it but I can't do
>much real time processing. All this talk about outboard gear and name
>dropping makes me curious. I have been studing electronic music and
>acoustics for quite a while now and the one major realization I had is
>that a computer can do _everything_ for you (at least theoretically). The
>only problem is the shitty physical interfaces, such as roman character
>keyboards, mice, trackballs, tiny buttons. I think the dream setup for me
>would be entirely software based with nothing but knobs, faders and midi
>instruments atached to the computer. Currently I'm programing some stuff
>in Csound (I'd upgrade to jMax but my machine is too slow). With a little
>knoweldge in Csound and the possibility of jMax, I wonder why anyone buys
>retail outboard gear at all.
>
>regards,
>Lee
>
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