[linux-audio-user] Re: Getting some hardware...

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 01:35 +0200, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> Believe me, when you have your first gig and all you're carrying is a 
> lap top computer instead of twenty different 20kg devices that all
> need to be hooked up the exactly right of 10'000 different ways,
> you're gonna thank me. That's why we use linux, real time mixing,
> synthing, sampling and recording all in one device, and we can
> MIDI-control it if we want some fancy faders.
> 

Well, this cuts both ways.  Those 20kg devices are made to handle
spilling beer into them or being whacked with the head of a guitar or a
flying drumstick.  Laptops are made to sit on a desk in an office or in
a padded bag.

Lee