On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 20:20:02 +0000, Ben Bell wrote: >This is definitely more what I had in mind. Sure, you listen to many kids and at least one crank, they just play and their parents and countries pay for their fun, they think in an academically approach, far away from the wilderness. Buy the Nord! Startup time was mentioned by this thread. That's even not an issue with very old HDDs, upstart and systemd are very fast, much less than 10 seconds for a clean audio setup. Reliability on stage is something completely different, that has abolutely nothing to do with upstaret time. Why do you think everybody on stage is playing a Nord and not some Win, Apple or Linux computer? Everything is in an as small as possible case, without the need to use a display, but with all controls ergonomically provided and even without a flight case already steady as a rock. You pointed out "Stage" ;). "Stage" = Nord and/or similar, but not a computer set-up, with cables and rack and keyboard. That's ridiculous. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user