Laptopbattle 2007

The laptopbattle had to take place without me. Unfortunately I was quite ill. But you can have a look at the event at laptopbattle mannheim soon.

Still hardware problems

Short update: the official Apple software update does not solve the issue with the Photon X25. I still get a kernel crash...
My next try is reverting the USB-drivers to a prior version and hoping this works.

Update (2007/08/07): Reverting to 10.4.10 USB drivers did not work. Seems like I have to sit and wait until Apple cares to solve this issue or move to my PC laptop.

finally a decent software synth

Bought Massive from Native Instruments. It's a really cool synth with some powerful presets. I'm fiddling around with it while I'm preparing for the laptopbattle end of this year.
As my usb midi keyboard is not working since the last Apple update (they've done something horrible to the usb drivers), I always get a kernel crash. My friend Scott did some research and has encountered several more problems with the latest update (he's got a PowerPC Mac so this is not an Intel-only phenomenon). This is what he came up with (thanks man ;) ):
Ableton forum
Macuarium (in Spanish)
Apple forums

I'll give it a try on my Mac tonight. Hope this works, the Photon is my audio interface and training for a live act without your controller just sucks :)