SynthEnergy

Multiple playheads, the ability to launch very long samples and crossfade between them, etc. Everything above. I should have kept my Octatrack I suppose, but it's a pain to use and you end up relearning the gear every time you have to use it. I'll be selling my Deluge shortly due to this use case as I don't always use short samples and want a bit more flexibility. I thought about the Akai Force, but it can't stream audio from the hard drive/SD Card which means the samples would need to be fairly short. They say that feature is coming, but I neither like Akai nor trust the product to work properly.

I probably sound frustrated, but I've been looking for a tool that does what I'm trying to do for years to no avail. Any of the artists I've seen that do what I'm attempting to do always end up with Ableton on stage, but the last thing I want is a computer up there. I did it with my first concert and it didn't seem to be too much of a nuisance but it just seems disconnecting to the audience somehow.