Just Got A G4 For $60 Now What?, Want to incorporate in my setup Options

[denz]

Hi all,
I just lucked on this G4 tower at a thrift store and I was thinking to turn it into a standalone sampler tool. I already use a powerbook 1.5 ghz for my main tracking etc. but I thought this tower could come in handy in my setup. i think it has 512 ram and is a 400 mhz processor. It has a zip drive and two video cards too. Does anyone have any advice on the best programs to put on it and the most efficient way to turn this into a standalone sampler? Thanks for any ideas!
BTW, I curently use an MPC 3000 and my PB running Reason 3.0 and DP 4.5

[mortalengines]

If you have Tiger you can network the G4 to your Powerbook via the LAN/network connection: here is a link on how to do it. This is for a Mac/PC linkup but the idea is the same. Anybody else out there with more info on this than I are welcome to correct me on this as there may be an easier way to do this with 2 Macs.

http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_midi_lanlubbers/

The other way of doing it is to get a soundcard with a midi interface for your G4 & a separate midi interface/soundcard for the powerbook & Midi slave the G4 to your powerbook. There may be some latency but this can be corrected in whatever app you might have by moving around the recorded audio track until it fits (the latency may not be noticeable at all if your interfaces are PCI or Firewire based).

The chain would go something like this: midi out from the powerbook to the midi in on the G4 interface- audio out from the G4 audio interface to audio in on the powerbook interface. Pretty dang easy...see?

[denz]

Thanks for the reply. I guess the network thing will only work with both machines running OSX. The midi setup sounds easy enough but I would need another midi interface like you said. I'll see what I can do and let you know what I come up with. Thanks!
C