Ableton Forum

what is your favorite piece of portable audio gear?

i'm looking for something to noodle around with on long train rides by itself or with my pb g4 w/reason

the new korg electribes look kind of cool, anyone have one?

I have one. I say it's still a little too large to bring with you on a a train. I highly recommend using virtual midi controllers like Loudk and Midikeys so you can just map your laptop keys and use it as a midi controller to controller Reason or whatever else you like. (i'm assuming your using OS X)
here are the links:
http://www.loudinc.com/audio/loudk/
http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys_beta.html

I have an electribe S. I don't have a Smartmedia card for it, and I can't really be bothered to sample stuff into it (haven't been as of yet, anways - problem is, trimming is a bitch cos of the display and you can't set up a triggering threshold for sampling) and since it's sitting on top of a hardware sampler (Akai S2k), I'm mostly using it to sequence drums sounds from that. Which it does great - I'm extremely happy with it. The effects are quite good to (I use the audio input quite a lot - it's a make shift guitar amp at the moment, too!). I'll be getting a Smartmedia card and dumping wavs into it soon, though, which'll be even better.

If you've only used software sequencers before, you'll love it. It's an instrument compared to a laptop, which was a huge revelation for me!

-Paws

Clavia Micromodular ... My ableton Live Best Friend, it's a very powerfull box with this soft, i'm running Modular and live together and i haven't probs of cpu load like reaktor

Human Koala
"if you don't beat your computer at chess, try kick-boxing"

dave smith instruments evolver.

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com

this can do *everything* (well, almost) - and it has "real" analog oscillators + filters (and lots more!).