To be honest with you, Frank, I just don't get your problem. ;-)(Am I too optimistic?) What are Hubi cables anyway?

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Jick

Now to be REALLY honest with you, Frank, I hardly ever worked with midi. I just read about it and read different manuals from different keyboards. It just seems logical(from what I know about midi) that it should work.
About your wanting to be able to change effects from the controller keyboard: I think that this depends on the keyboard also.

I am also considering getting a small computer with Jammer Live, Gigasampler, and a controller keyboard. And, hey, I want exactly what you want. I would also like harmony for the right hand.

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Jick

Read about Gigastudio doing all the realtime midi-triggered effects for you.

Hi,

veery interesting discussion going on here. I have a few questions:
1. can jammer pro (not live!) use yamaha psr-styles?
2. would a laptop with 466 celeron, 64 MB Ram, full duplex sound card work with jammer pro and the quoted gigasampler 500 mb library (no sampling!)
3. Anybody interested to buy a brandnew korg i40m für 1150 bucks?

Best regards to all

Heinrich

Heinrich,

From what I gather at Nemesys' website (the FAQ section), they don't recommend using Gigasampler on a laptop computer (due to hard disk speed issues, etc.) They do recommend a "lunchbox" computer or a rackmount PC if you need portability. And I figure you'd need to use Gigasampler to use the Conexant GM library.

For more info, check at www.nemesystech.com/ in the FAQ section.

HTH,

Cindy G.

Below I quote what Nemesys says about laptops in their FAQ. Despite the negative answer, I would not be discouraged from trying a laptop, at least with an external harddisk. There must be at least one PMCIA soundard by now, and some laptops have built in sound. There is a PMCIA UW SCSI available. Also, there are firewire interfaces and disks available. So what if 500MHz laptops are slower than their like rated desktops. As long as they are fast enough. Also, I bet many laptops allow power management to be turned off, at least when the laptop is coupled to AC.

On the other hand, the lunchbox computers recommended by Nemisis at www.bsicomputer.com may be an attractive option is an external harddisk is not desired.

There is another laptop option to consider: while it may seem to defeat the main feature of gigasampler, one could load samples into RAM. For example, the 150 MB GM library would fit into a high-end laptop's RAM.

Clif


"Q: Do you recommend a laptop for portable use?

A: Notebook\laptop computers are generally not recommended for running the GigaSampler. They tend to perform slower than their desktop counterparts of the same advertised speed. The miniaturization plays a part in slowing things down. Due to lack of readily available PCMCIA soundcards, the audio output on laptop computers doesn’t compare either. The power management will also cause major problems.

There are two recommended options for portability. Portable computers and Rackmount systems."

Candidate for a Gigasampler Laptop. Here is a laptop setup that was used for video editing. Ok, it sounds like it needs a docking station. Still, you have a laptop to use for the less demanding applications. I am not saying this will work with Gigasampler, but if it works well for video editing it is a good candidate.

"Adobe Premiere 5.1 work fluently with DV Raptor in a docking station on a Gateway 9300XL Pentium III, 500, 160+DVD 4x and top 15", modem, 5 hours battery-power and all build in!
They even used an extra 20 GIG LaCie Firewire drive with no problems!"

Clif

It's not just the laptop CPU and HD performance. It is also the lack of any GSIF compatible soundcards. No using GSIF will lead to latency problems. However this should be should in the not to distant future.

And I got this back from Soundtrek:
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Someone on this list said:
>..."I talked to SoundTrek Sales and emailed their Tech Support. It is starting to look like Jammer Live is not able to handle more than 1 voice.

I'm not sure what this person is saying? Please be more specific.

>and then only along the whole keyboard or on the right hand side of the split point.

This is true. Melodies can be played anywhere or limited to a section of the
keyboard. How is that a limitation?

> It appears that one will not be able to send Program or effect changes to the voice I play on the keyboard.

You should be able to do this, if not we will fix it right away.

>Adding harmony to the right hand or melody line would also be nice.

JAMMER LIVE does this in interactive mode.

Keep jammin,

Dave Castles
SoundTrek

Nice follow through, elle. It is great that Soundtrek is being so responsive.

On the other branch of elle's vision, how about Gigasampler CDROMs for $8/each? www.gigasampler.ru

Clif