On 3/27/07, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/27/07, Nick Breinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i've watched friends restring their guitars while singing songs as
> much as i've seen someone rebooting a laptop. the laptop reboot is
> just more disastrous if you have made the choice to rely on it alone
> as your sole instrument.
which is the way almost all live electronic performance seems to be
heading, of course....
tom
yeah i'm in agreement on that. i've played using only hardware and
i've used only a laptop...all of it has glitched out at times. even
if you have everything all tweaked out nicely and have tested the
setup for hours/days on end, things definitely happen in the live
environment that are unexpected. i've seen rudiman go thru the same
thing when an ac adapter goes nuts and takes out the virus or there is
some bunk power that glitches out an mmt-8 (which is why he always has
a portable cd player ready to feed the sequences back into the mmt-8).
of course, analog electronics are more reliable in this respect
albeit temperature sensitive w/ some pieces.
it's the nature of the beast...you've just got to be smart and aware
and definitely not rely on only one piece of kit if you want to be
prepared for an equipment fault.
