Musicman22,

What gigs? I am a hobbyist. Not a professional? I play in my home. However, depending on the kind of professinal musician you may be, would determine whether a midi setup would work on the road for you. I would venture a guess that a laptop would be used to be portable. And yes, you would use your OMB to play the styles. Since the keyboard allows ASCII assignments you could assign buttons on the Axiom and bring the styles up from the Axiom pro instead of the laptop.

Hypercontrol is an exclusive function of the Axiom pro that allow the DAW to setup the keyboard assignments without any help from the user. It auto assigns the buttons for you.

Here is a link for more info on this neat device: There is a video link off that page.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/AxiomPro61.html


-Lindafus