The Roland SP-404SX Sampler

The laptop Lucid Dementia uses for the drum sounds has become too problematic:
1. It can't keep up with AzilX's fast playing, specifically on complex hi hat parts and lags horribly.
2. When first turned on, it sometimes kicked out the external audio interface, forcing AzilX to restart the laptop, and hold her breath that it finally loads. This contributed to the band taking too long to set up at the Dallas show, and ending up having to cut the set short.

For these reasons we are replacing the laptop with the Roland SP-404SX Sampler. It plays back waves, has software so that samples can be edited on a PC, and can hold up to 32GB of data. We should start testing it when it arrives sometime between January 14th-20th. If things go well it will debut on the February 13th show...
(Click the pic to check it out!)