Can LAUD be used with a laptop or notebook computer (for portable operation)?
Sorry, but in general you cannot use LAUD with a laptop/notebook PC. (But you can use Praxis). LAUD works only with certain specific DSP soundcards (the ones currently available are the Turtle Beach “FIJI” and “PINNACLE”), which require installation into an ISA slot. LAUD relies on synchronous and simultaneous stimulus and acquisition, not possible with the built-in sound functions of laptop PCs. None of the PCMCIA type cards will work at all with LAUD, and neither the MIDI, Joystick, Serial nor Parallel Printer ports are usable to connect to a LAUD compatible card. They lack sufficient bandwidth for LAUD, which must stream digital audio and DSP commands over the bus. There have in the past been several laptop type computers which either had an internal ISA slot or which could provide an ISA slot via an external expansion chassis. Some machines can be equipped with a “docking station” (such as IBM’s DOCK1) having ISA slots within — in such a case, you may be able to use LAUD in your n
