sampler with flash memory

[Tony Scharf]

The laptop has the problem that its a laptop.  With a laptop, you also
need some kind of audio adapter and they are sometimes electrically
noisy on stage.  Then there is the whole question of software..

The octotrack is just overkill for this application, though one would
make a great addition to the modular setup..

Tony

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <evildead at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:
>
>> Since my experience last Saturday I am trying to retool my rig to be a
>> little more fault tolerant.   My big single point of failure, my M3,
>> is going to be retired from the setup.  I want to try and find
>> something cheap and portable that I can (possibly) take two of to the
>> gig, and break the rig down into a keyboard controller + module setup.
>> I hate adding MIDI to the mix, but I think it will be better than
>> trying to shoehorn everything into a single board.
>>
>> The one big problem I am having is finding anything that, if it gets
>> rest like the M3 did, doesnt shut me down for 2 or 3 minutes while it
>> power cycles back up + another 2 or 3 minutes loading a sample bank.
>>
>> In that spirit, does anyone know anything that can satisfy the following:
>>
>> 1.  Portable
>> 2.  Rack or small enough to fit on your average MIDI controller
>> 3.  Has at least a small amount of FLASH based memory that wont require loading
>> 4.  Cheap as possible.
>>
>> So far, the best I can come up with would be something like an
>> MPC10000.  I dont need a *huge* sample memory, just a 8 megs would be
>> fine.  If it does have to be loaded, it should do so as quickly as
>> possible and have an autoload capability.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> small laptop running linux with SSD - I think these can become pretty almost instant on.
>
> Octatrack!
>
> I'm full of helpful suggestions!
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