From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Nov 17 20:12:09 2005
Subject:Re: OT New music computer?

Poor Walter....you don't even recognize "retro" when you see it brother!!!!!!! Schism and the rest of the gang over there are analog NUTS, and what you're looking at is new modular stuff, like the OLD modular stuff (Remember the Moog IV?), the only synth stuff you could really get before the MINImoog. (And seeing that makes the name MiniMoog self-explanatory.)

It's no more scary than those wacky Hammond organ freaks! I'm sure folks were just as freaked out by Emerson and Lord's longhair as you are by the new guys' lack of it. (BTW, Rudess is no spring chicken, he's in his late 40s.)
T

jake92028 wrote: --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, tonysounds wrote:
>
> Receptor still makes more sense Walter; you aren't locked into
using one board with zones; that's just what I NEED for that
application. Cheaper to buy the Receptor, and it's already made to
go; top quality midi interface (no latency), audio interface works
great, and will be expanded to 8 outputs via USB and breakaway box,
and it's crminally easy to use.
>
> Remember, I wanted to go laptop live. Most of the stuff we like
(Hammond, acoustic pianos) take up a BUTTLOAD of CPU power, and you
cant ever buy enough.
>
> Any way you want configure your laptop rig you can do with
Receptor. Should really consider it.

Well I have and did, even talked to the guys in Pomona that sell them
and the Doepfer hammer-weighted controllers.. But I really do need a
better up to date portable computer in general. Per my old desktop,
there's a local shop here that can put anything I want in my existing
case, just bring in the tower and give 'em a list, take suggestions;
it's ready the next day or two. I'm just so used to using it off and
on all day I haven't taken it in yet.

So it's the laptop I really want up to '05-'06 standards for music
and other stuff. I use it for Electro Tool, just learning to use
MidiOx, and even have old Band-in-a-box practice files and some
Cakewalk w/Jukebox to play stuff on breaks sometimes. And it's barely
1U rackmount size versus 2U.

I also don't have a comparison for what's available besides B4 II
(soon) for a Windows-based laptop versus Receptor: What EP's,
AcPiano's, Synths, can I just put on a laptop and play with a USB
connection versus going the whole 9 yards with the Muse unit and
screen? If I had that comparison then I'd be better able to make the
decision. TIA ~ Walter j

*Note - Ignorable Rant: As an older musician used to walking into the
usual music stores and checking things out on the usual music gear
online websites - some of the guys related to the Muse Receptor and
KVR and Plugorama sites seem so weird they're scary! (not really : )
Like I'm talking to some guy whose email tag is "schism" at Doepfer..
is he trying to tell me something? ..eek. When I see Jordan Rudess'
shiny bald head peeking out of a pic near his keyboards and sliders
and Receptor, I'm thinking, "Uhh, you go back to whatever you were
doing, I must be in the wrong place." Then I read down the website
data release and link info at KVR and just barely understand what
they're talking about. But the descriptions of all the synthesizer
mixes and creations that various artists have contributed are
described like panoramic nightmares.. what's it for? Like where's the
meat and potatoes? Oh yeah, there's B4 II soon to be released, then a
bunch more off-the-wall strange stuff. Doesn't the music world only
have room for just so many Massive Attacks and Portisheads? I guess
they're probably getting kind of "vintage" or dated. Plus this stuff
is reaally complicated. It reminds me of trying to keep up with
teenagers (some now young adult musicians) that can blow you away
with video games you can barely follow since they've been playing so
many already for years and have their reflexes trained for it. There
was one related site that simply showed a roomful of mixing and
patching boards covering all the walls from floor to ceiling as the
intro page.. Duh? I guess that meant that one of their keyboards or
boxes would take the place of all the stuff I'm looking at. LOL! End
Rant.

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