On 2.2.2004, at 03:37, fusier@... wrote: > Why am I telling you about this ideaŠ well because I'm wondering > if you've thought of it yet, considering that Emagic & Apple are > almost one company, there is tremendous potential to create something > like this. This would be true IF the market was so huge that something like this could be made true. I don't believe it is. > Plus there are others who are already starting to work > on this idea, but ofcourse they're doing it with PC's. The > Chamelean, or the Receptor, which is particularly interesting, UNIX > gives many opportunities, so OS X should too. My point beingŠ if I > end up going out to buy a Receptor, I'll end up buying PC VST > plugins, which means I'm getting further away from using a Mac. And you're still in the same starting point....having to deal with computer OS and all the rest of the stuff. > Maybe you don't care, but such an arrogant view is simply stupid, > nieve & lacks any foresight towards the future musical direction & > opportunities available. So what you're saying here is that unless we agree with you we are arrogant and studpid...well this is a nice way to say hello to us all ;-) > A rack mounted unit that can do all that > would practically kill everything else on the market & could be used > by all sorts of musicians/producers & audio engineers. Someone > isn't going to stick a laptop in their rack to process FX for stage > soundŠ but a 1 or 2 rack unit machine might be a different option. > Think about itŠ > > What do you thinkŠ? I don't want to shoot down your Utopia but I don't see this happening and yes it has been talked over several times as long as I've been on internet. It just would be too costly for too small group of users. Cheers Check out the web page for my band updated 6.10.2003 . New home address : http://koti.welho.com/jpennane