Well, Orbital uses a number of MMT-8s when playing live. Personally I have the AKAI asq-10, which is a pretty nice hardware sequencer - it's got 4 individual midi outputs and 2 inputs so you het 64 channels of midi. The MMT-8 only got 16 channels of midi, so having one machine to run a large gig requires a fair amount of creativity :). Also to asq-10 has a very nice user interface, a large display, and a build in help system. The way I use it is to create a number of sequences which are playing in loop, the fiddle with the mixer, improvising on the synths, turning knobs, etc. While playingm you can change which sequence is playing. It is not easy to mute/unmute the channels on the sequencer as with the MMT-8. Basically, muting channels on the fly on the asq is impractical. Regards, Peter Strøiman www.mp3.com/PeteRepeat -----Original Message----- From: samuel [mailto:samu@...] Sent: 31. januar 2000 10:49 To: logic-users@onelist.com Subject: [LUG] Hardware MIDI sequencers, computers and live acts From: "samuel" <samu@...> Hi there. I have done a few lives with my computer and an akai s3000xl sampler, but I'd like to be able to go a gig without my computer because you never know when it could hang up or reboot or crash or die or whatever. I recently bought a Yamaha SU700 for realtime controll its own sampler and effects and the akai sampler. The SU has a very limited sequencer, a very limited sampler and a very limited effects processor: It's capable of storing 20 songs in memory, but you have to stop playback when you want to change the song!!! This way you could not play two songs without interruptions!!! I have heard the Alesis MMT8 is 'the best' MIDI sequencer for live acts. Anybody using it? Another thing I don't like in SU700 is that people at yamaha could have programmed a simple application for pc to edit sequences and interchange them between this unit and the PC (it has SCSI interface and MIDI, as well) Do you know some hardware sequencer which has the ability of being programmed from the computer??? Do you know if there are lots of people who use computers as sequencers for live acts? or people usually make this with hardware sequencers? please, if you do live acts, tell me which configuration do you use.. Many thanks. Sam #ICQ 38770781 Email: samu@... Unsubscribe: mail to logic-users-unsubscribe@onelist.com