Heinrich,.

Enjoyed your story and you are right about the soft synths, the quality is amazing!

EZ Drummer soumds very interesting, I'll check it out.

Jerry, live soft-synth/soft arranger setups are not only possible but there are a few SZ member who use them regularly. I use this type of system live but instead of a laptop mine is loaded on the Lionstracs Mediastation(linux based). It works very well.

Good Luck with whichever method you try

Richard