From groovecake@yahoo.com Tue Oct 14 14:13:29 2003
Subject:Re: Dedicated Clone vs. PC/B4

Kevin,

The B4 set-up will sound better than any clone combo.
Hands down. It's worth the effort to plug in a few
cords.

I have been using my B4 live for a year now on a
600mhz PIII. Works like a charm once I worked out the
bugs.

Mitch

--- Kevin wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the input. What about the issue during
> live performance
> where you want to push/pull drawbars while playing
> to change the
> sound?
>
> I've heard a few people talk about hardware midi
> controllers to do
> this, but is the B4 that programmable via MIDI that
> you can control
> each drawbar separately?
>
> Agreed, it's more control than I have now in which
> the drawbar
> samples in my Yamaha are fixed, but if I'm looking
> at a clone rig
> it's better to shoot high and compromise than shoot
> low and want :)
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Cyr"
>
> wrote:
> > Kevin;
> >
> > The computer you describe sounds fine except for
> memory--I would
> recommend
> > at least 256 mb--more if you can afford it. Mine
> is a 750mhz
> Duron, and
> > it has plenty of CPU power for the B4 program. I
> used to run it on
> a
> > 300mhz AMD K6/2. One list member was running it
> on a 225mhz
> Pentium II,
> > IIRC.
> >
> > Not familiar with the sound card you described--I
> use a
> Soundblaster Live!
> > 5.1, and I'm running Windows 98 SE. I'm getting
> less than 10 msec
> latency
> > with the DirectSound driver that came with the
> card.
> >
> > --Steve
> >
> > ========================================
> >
> > Kevin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If I go the PC/B4 route, I can build a rig for
> about $640,
> including
> > > the B4 software - that being the case, the
> system is based on
> AMD Duron
> > > 1.6Ghz/128Mb/20Gb HD/3D Stereo Sound with
> DirectSound 3D/XP
> Home/2USB/1
> > > Serial
> > >
>

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