I got BIAB and FL Studio to play nice and I like the piano roll in FL for editing. I'm using these to do jazz backing tracks and I only need the basics like bass, drums and piano for the most part. Are there any advantages to using hardware like a Ketron SD2? It sounds great but I'm not sure I need it. I haven't decided whether to burn tracks to waves or run live midi.

I'm trying out some VST's for bass and jazz drums from Sonivox and they seem to be a good value. I'll be moving operations to a laptop soon.