Portable travel recording/midi

[pure.fusion]

Hi all. Not sure where to post this topic.

I'm going overseas for a few months. I'll be taking a notebook (read, slightly underpowered laptop).

I want a quick and dirty program to create midi music and have it play back in any quality. I imagine I'm talking crappy 80s synth drums, piercing crappy midi synth sounds, farty midi bass sounds - anything I can get my ideas down on.

When I return home, I'll import the midi tracks into Cube and bango, a song is born.

Any solutions?

Cheers
FM

 

[TimOBrien]

I'm using Reaper (www.reaper.fm) as not only a main DAW, but on a netbook as well.

More than enough to do anything....

 

[Racherik]

You didn't say which country you were going to. Why not buy a Yamaha DGX when you get to your destination? That keyboard will hook right up to your computer directly. Then when you come home sell it or bring it with you. And if you get the low end DGX you'll only be out $300 worst case.

Racherik

 

[pure.fusion]

Well, it's a holiday to Morocco, Turkey and Mexico. So a lot of travelling around and keyboard too large/heavy.

The little notebook has about 5 hours battery time. I pictured it being used on a portion of the 17hour flights, bus rides, hotel room at night etc.

Thanks for the Reaper link Tim. I pictured something a little less in-depth. The notebook is the latest and actually has some grunt in comparison to those poor little atom processors that can barely play a mpg, but having said that it's still built for portability and not power.

Cheers,
FM

 

[Racherik]

How many keys do you need? Seems like just about any small keyboard would do. I spied a $35 rubber roll up keyboard with MIDI on ebay once.

Racherik

 

[pure.fusion]

None.

I'm happy with touchpad and a screen, under the circumstancs.

FM