Thanks Allan once again! Before I got your reply, I downloaded the free trial version of FL Studio and watched a couple of tutorials. But I've heard a lot of recommendations for Ableton, and I use a Mac so MainStage would also be fine. I do appreciate your offer to share setups, templates and patches but first I'll do some more research. But one additional question: which would you recommend for a beginner if I'm not currently interested in spending much time with sequencer software, but would like to pull in different sounds and patches during live play, plus have everything connected together via MIDI?