On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:03 PM, music251 wrote: > How well would this laptop work as a sound module together with a > midi keyboard like CME UF7 in a live situation and in band > rehearsals? should work fine - I do this with a lowly ibook 700 mhz use platinum verb - not the best, but we are talking live here... if you need a delay or some such - put it on a buss... evb3 works fine samples on external firewire works fine - probably better to use the "light" versions of multisampled instruments if possible evd3 works fine for other "regular" keys - i like the scarbee stuff much better than the native plugz split keyboards can be a problem - the i/o trick is not reliable live and latency raises its ugly head - but i have heard that there are better workarounds in 7.1 (my ibook is still at 6.4.3) one workaround: good results can be obtained by making custom splits in your exs editor a friend is very happy using logic express - in which case for organ you will need something like ni b4 - I will be trying this approach soon - as the biggest drawback to using your logic pro is remembering to take the @#$%ing dongle to the gig!!! hope that helps