Comments on: Tiny PCs for Music: UMPC Runs SONAR, Fruity Loops Like a Real PC

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:37:04 +0000

This is great and I hope one day UMPCs will indeed be powerful enough to run current day music apps.

Also, there’s a New Jersey based group of hip hop musicians called DALEK, comprised of MC Dalek and producer Oktopus. Their sound is very rich and layered, heavily based on electronics and for all you genre purists, they are often dubbed “avant-noise” ;) Anyway, in their myspace profile (link at the end of this comment), in some of the pics you can see Oktopus using a Sony UX (also a UMPC) along with his setup of a mixer and an AKAI MPC 1000. Maybe he’s running some music software on the UX? His live setup is usually a mixer as well as a Powerbook.

Check out the photos under PICS, and enjoy their music.

http://www.myspace.com/dalek

By: edwin moses

edwin moses — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:44:50 +0000

Check this out
http://www.directron.com/hpab20256.html

500mhz would be enough to run an older version of Logic (5.1/5.5) in order to be creative on the road.

By: kent

kent — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:58:01 +0000

Roland would want to louse it up with a baffling user interface and incomprehensible manual.

Seriously why HASNâ€™T roland hired The Bhajis loop guy to make a music PDA? Palm + br-micro + line6 pod x piggytracker midi out, mass produced for $499.99 would be a no brainer for me.

By: Kyran

Kyran — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:31:01 +0000

Whatever floats your boat :)

It’s just that I don’t know of a midi controller which wouldn’t limit the portability of this thing (if I have to bring a bag to carry the controller, I can also bring a laptop, which is more powerful)

Maybe a wii mote would work, it’s something that fits in a (large) jacket pocket :)

By: K-Supreme

K-Supreme — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:43:27 +0000

@Kyran:
ok so i didn’t know it was that heavy, but i still think it would be a nice use of the UMPCs..
if you’d use a evolution keyboard… is that ok then? :)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13:24 +0000

This just in: A PC runs fruity loops ;)

Let me know when the pc as studio concept (cubase et al) meets the small portable device as instrument (tenori, monome, lgpt) at a price point thats reasonable.

Seriously why HASN’T roland hired The Bhajis loop guy to make a music PDA? Palm + br-micro + line6 pod x piggytracker midi out, mass produced for $499.99 would be a no brainer for me.

By: Kyran

Kyran — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:09:41 +0000

@ K-Supreme: if you can carry a CME UF8 with you, you can most definitely carry a laptop. That thing weighs about 23 kg and doesn’t fit in my car.

A realistic use for this is indeed on the train with a pair of headphones. Nice video’s!

By: JG

JG — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:18:02 +0000

I have a Samsung Q1 and have been using it successfully to control Logic pro running on an iBook by using RealVNC on the Q1 and OSXVNC on the iBook, so the Q1 is just “viewing” Logic, but the pen/tablet input is great for controlling the transport, scoring and editing in the midi matrix.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/mobilecomputing/ultramobile/np_q1_v000suk.asp

By: wuntun

wuntun — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:25:44 +0000

What about using an OneLaptopPerChild XO? runs at 433mhz, tiny light. No windows yet of course, but surely only a matter of time…

By: K-Supreme

K-Supreme — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:12:29 +0000

1. Connect a usb audio interface
2. Connect a usb midi keyboard (CME UF8 Via a usb hub perhaps)
3. kick start Minimoog V (Or maybe lounge Lizard)
4. Preform Live?

Thats how i see a grate use for this device…i mean you could have all the VSTis you’d like and it wouldn’t need a truck to carry them…