From claire_trikes_aust@iprimus.com.au Fri Oct 31 18:18:36 2003
Subject:Re: Help with KX Project Drivers for SBLive! 5.1

Hear Hear Doug,
Well said.
I give you full support for your comments below.

I have two real Hammonds and two real Leslie's but I prefer to use B4.

I even run it on a full desk top machine which I lug around and people think
it is funny, but the desktop PC (while obviously a lot more cumbersome than
a laptop) is nothing compared with a full Hammond or Clone/Leslie rig and
its right on for sound quality. And I can tweak it to death, and I can run
whole heaps of software synths (for nothing) and run whole heaps of really
powerful MIDI stuff, lots of really nifty sequencing drums/loops and other
junk, lots of fancy and powerful signal processing stuff, play CDs and whole
heaps of other sound files, and I can run whole heaps of sound fonts (for
nothing) and I can even send emails on my dammed Hammond clone !

(I've actually cracked a way to record our bands rehersals in full stereo
high quality for a CD while I'm using the same PC as my Clonewheel.)

By the way I have never had B4 or the PC or Win 2K Pro let me down.

And in case it does, it is of course entirely practical just to have a spare
old junk style PC pre-loaded with B4 set up and ready to go and just leave
it in the trunk or van. (Not really practical with a hardware clone........)

Regards,
Claire


> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" wrote:
> > And THAT tale of woe, my friends, is why I play a hardware clone. I
> > write software for a living and the LAST bloody thing that I want to
> > do is wrestle with Windoze problems on my instruments.
>
> Suit yourself, but aside from occasional FIRST TIME set-up hassles
> like this, once you've initially configured the MIDI interface,
> soundcard, and software, the hardware clones have no meaningful
> advantages, just inferior tone, inferior upgradability (is that a
> word!) and greater cost. After hours and hours and hours, I NEVER
> have ANY problems with my laptop/sofsynth setup. Oh yeah, I still
> HAVE a hardware clone. I now call it my controller!
>
> Regards,
>
> Doug
>
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