Not only are these excellent points, but walking into a room or onto a stage filled with a Little Phatty, Voyager, Taurus pedals, an organ of some sort, even a small modular looks OVER 9000 times more impressive than a laptop (even a $10,000 multimedia laptop from Silicon Graphics) loaded with emulators, sitting on a folding table with some Cerwin-Vegas underneath covered by a sheet of black velvet. I mean, COME ON! Where's the wow factor?Maskin wrote:I think the soundguys from the venues I've played at would agree. The bass from the Little Phatty seems to amaze them every time, haha!EricK wrote:And Reason will come close with some earth shattering bass, but to me nothing beats hardware.
Eric
Even the kick from my DrumTraks blows laptops off the stage and that's just a ROM chip.
NO ONE is going to say, "Listen to those sounds coming out of that laptop! That is SO friggin' cool! I wonder who his programmer is?" It's just not impressive. A computer can emulate almost any sound. Where's the cables? Where's the modules? Where's the knobs? On the screen? What? Am I missing something here? Where's the fun? If I wanted to have fun clicking on a mouse, I'd play Baldur's Gate.