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Yeah the er1 is a fun little machine. Alternatvely a Roland sp404 is a dirt cheap fairly compact sampler

Check is in the post mate!

"Neil's PNES : Its a real handful"

There is an awesome documentary from Animal Style on LSDJ covering loads of tricks in tables recorded at 8 static but I am failing at finding it

To be honest this might be internet irony which Im missing but if you cant do something interesting with a synth with 2 oscs, 2 lfos, 7 or 8 wave forms, a handful of virtual patches, 6 or 7 filter types and a shit load of effects, you might need to spend a bit more time learning synthesis.

Yorki mate. you can get A320 dingoos in any of the shady shops in Akihabara that sell R4s and knock off Ipads. Akibakan and such. If you want I we could try and meet up and I will get you started. I can bring my lappy and help you get set up?

I also pig on all three portable platforms so I have a couple of pros and cons I would add too Bleos excellent list. Please forgive any overlap.

PSP

Pros
- Large Screen, It really is rather lovely.
- Easy access to memory stick as PSP functions as USB mass storage
- Easy to find and cheap as dirt
- Very ergonomically pleasing
Cons
- Fucking huge pain in the ass to get modded to run custom firmware, acres of documentation to wade through which changes rapidly.
- Fairly short battery life, especially if you get an older model
- Midi out is a mythical unicorn which is unlikely to materialize
- Uses Song Memory Sticks which are a shade more expensive.
- Headphone jack in a mildly annoying place (bottom left).

GP2X
Pros
- Uses standard AA batteries,
- VERY easy to get piggy running, download, unzip and run it. super easy.
- Uses standard SD cards which are cheap as chips.
- Sensibly placed headphone jack on the back of the unit.

Cons
- Seems to go through batteries quickly.
- More expensive and as Bleo mentioned, hard to track down.
- Headphone jack is too small for a lot of cables, there is a weird kind of recess with the whole in I have had to shave the shielding off some cables to get them to fit.
- Thumbstick is very much a personal taste thing, I don't like it much, some people swear by it.

Dingoo
Pros
- GBMicroish formfactor, literally pocket size and bad ass. Throw is in your back and forget about it.
- Charges via standard Mini USB jack
Cons
- Uses Micro SD (weird middle size SD card), minor con but worth bearing in mind.
- by far the least comfortable to use (bleo is a robot and has square hands so it doesnt bother him).