After 4 or 5 years of touring with a computer, I've decided to leave it at home. My two Roland sp808s have proven more reliable on tour: No skips in a hard drive, no blue screen of death. The machine is simple and reliable. It is also loud as hell.
While I will be continuing my work using Ableton Live, all files for shows will be transferred to 100mb Zipp disks and I will operate that way. This will make my life easier, as each night I often worried if the computer was going to hold up.
One day when I can afford a laptop with a solid state hard drive and enough memory and ram to suit my needs, I will one again reformat my touring gear. So for now a clean, loud, and reliable old friend will be accompanying me while we play.
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