I also gig (improv over standards) with laptop, restaurant job. The headphone outputs from a 4 year old Dell Inspiron feed a Mackie DFX-6 mixer which feeds a pair of Mackie SM350 powered monitors. Along with my Yari classical guitar (w/pickup), BIAB's Realtracks bass, keyboard and drums through this system are absolutely fantastic for standards. I've occasionally use the same laptop through a friends Bose L2 system, but the Mackie system really does have a much warmer and prettier sound.

I may have become perhaps a little dependent on following the marker as changes are churned out, but it sure is nice.

Only problem I have is maybe once every two or three gigs BIAB (295) just pauses for about 5 (v-e-r-y) long) seconds. Me and my partner watch close and always find some way to cover. Another issue is that the Conductor mode does not work without glitches with Realtracks. As soon Peter and our other good friends at PG fix the Conductor problem, which will allow changing to more or fewer choruses while playing, this will be the world's greatest live gig machine.

By the way, my partner agrees with this and he's a Grammy winning lifelong professional guitarist.

Thanks PG
John