Gotcha Manning,

Thanks Bro.............and to your advice I say a GREAT BIG HALLELUJAH...because you said some really eye opening things here. The others in this forum have also given me good advice. So basically, and like you said, Anything can go wrong...and that's true. I need to get some kind of 'whatever it is" surge suppressor or what have you to stabilize the power coming into the Mac.......oh well coming to think of it, I will leave my nice new dandy white colored Mac-book at home in my home studio and use this brand new HP baby I will buy at Walmart .....ummmmmmmm for tomorrow's BLACK FRIDAY SALE...........I mean $298.00 for a nice HP Laptop with reasonable specs aint that bad. Take a look at it here: http://bfads.net/HP-Laptop-Celeron-3GB-Memory-250GB-HDD-G60519wm-at-Walmart.

So anyways, having said that, I will indeed experiment a bit, try out stuff at my worship rehearsals, maybe get to the church early, do stuff, check things, trouble shoot, try, experiment and what have you. As the Department of Motor Vehicles always advise.......DRIVE DEFENSIVELY........EXPECT THE WORSE...BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR CRAZY FOLK ON THE ROAD. The same maxim can be applied to this scenario that I wanna accomplish in playing with my worship team with "live" sequences and to be able to call up patterns on the fly.

So my other question. As I said earlier on, I play a Roland Clavinova. In terms of my set up, do I run band in a box from my laptop which is connected via usb to my lexicon omega interface with stereo out from the interface into the sound system and stage monitors? Or do I go usb from the laptop and midi connected to the CLAVINOVA? Clavinova has only Midi in and midi out..no USB......THEN stereo audio out of the Clavinova? I guess, what I want to do is to be able to play the Clavinova like I have been doing but be able to send band in a box out of the PC. Hope I am not sounding silly but again, I am basically a gigging musician who is now getting into the software vibe.

Reply soon y'all. Just need advice on how y'all would set up this "live" vibe.

Jacobins