audiogeekzine:
Thanks for asking, this could explain it.
A while back, I invited some guys over to try something. We hooked up my gear (guitar/bass/drums) all in, and then we loaded up Cubase with all the usual plugins....
So, picture a few instances of Guitar Rig running (bass/guitar) , Drums (Superior 2.0, or DKHS at the time) as well as some reverb/compression....
We found it extremly rewarding that we could jam with just headphones on, and play whenever... I bought a 4 channel headphone amp and we can get a few guys together and jam/write some tunes in real time whilest it sounds great!!
Needless to say, it's a real resource pig, but I have a overclocked Quad with 4 gigs of Ram running the show.
It's a real unique way of jamming and doing some recording.... If I had more channels, i'd like to do some vocals as well in realtime.....
Anyhow, thats the method to my madness, and I want to recreate that experience with a portable solution, that I could take to a friends or whoevers place....
In such a situation with so much going on, latency is an enemy. So I can understand the whole question as to why a non professional would have such demands, but once you've had success with something, its tough to compromise...