I am a keyboard player and probably am the laziest user of BB. I typically will find BB style for a song and use it with only one change. I mute the bass track and play left hand bass on the keys/ I am using a Casio WK3300 for my bass keyboard and a Roland XP10 for my upper. The Casio cost less than $275 and has a terific bass tone and the best sax sound you will ever hear. The Roland is over 10 years old and is light, great sounding and has terrific strings sounds.

My laptop had been a Compaq NX9010 running XP Pro. I am in the process of setting up a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Windows 7 and BB2011. For live sound I come right out of the laptop sound jack into a Behringer Europower PMH2000 head connected to 2 - Behringer B1520 speakers. The whole PA with 2 mics cost less than $650 and has enough power for any size room or even outdoors.

I have become very adept at integrating midi files into BB in order to add guitar and other instrument parts to my songs. For example a song like Jonny B Goode would not be a good choice for a KB player unless he could have the guitar leads in the song.

I am taking delivery of a Digitech Vocalist 4 this week to add to the mix. Hopefully I can get it to work with keyboard input. BB 2011 is realy great. I had been on 2008 and I think the new features and sound are really worth the upgrade price.