sampler with flash memory

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Beagleboard running linuxsampler ..

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On Feb 22, 2011, at 22:14, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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