Definitely fair points re: the Synclavier and the Fairlight. That said, from memory I'm pretty positive there's a few 'sidenotes' in the era which would have u

Definitely fair points re: the Synclavier and the Fairlight. That said, from memory I'm pretty positive there's a few 'sidenotes' in the era which would have utilised general purpose portable computers as part of a live performance. The UK synthpop acts cobbling together gear post-Depeche Mode's 1981 'Speak and Spell' Album, with stuff like the Alpha Syntauri setup for the Apple II used by Herbie Hancock and Laurie Spiegel coming to mind. https://www.vintagesynth.com/syntauri/alphasyntauri https://www.vintagesynth.com/syntauri/alphasyntauri You then went even more niche, for the sake of academic argument, with the Amiga demo and modscene which often focused on the use of Tracker MODs for live performance and 'DJing' on COTS consumer PC hardware. I'd also eat my hat if there weren't Jazz and new-wave artists utilising the FM Chips in the early NEC and PC-88 style line at the time - i.e. the natural progression of the chiptune scene going full polyphony and fidelity from the MOS chip in the C64.