New Ableton Live rig for a very specific project.

[navitus]

I have finally saved up for a new rig and a very special music project........special to me!
Band consists of me on Abe Live and guitars, a vocalist, and a percussion player.
World Electronica i guess.....

I am starting the writing process with Live shows in mind.
I want to trigger mostly audio loops, around 8 in Live and also be able to tweak and play upto 2-3 softsynth tracks.
My main concern is obviously system stability in a live setting.
Please help me out with some specific questions.

Macbook Pro
I will probably with the 2.8 17'' version------in a live setting do u bring an external hard drive along or just stream off the internal ?
I want the system to be really really lean, so my studio projects will reside on a separate external hard drive, which i don't want to carry around. What do u suggest ?

APC 40 for Live abuse and tweaking.

NI Maschine for all percussion and beats, NI Kore 2 hardware Running Kore sound packs, both for live playing and tweaking and controllers will only be mapped to Maschine and Kore. Would u do this, am i risking stability, crashes ??

Novation Remote Sl 49mk2 for playing keyboard parts, controls mapped to softynths, max 2 tracks.

NI Audio 8 DJ to be able to separately bring Live master track, Maschine track and 2 other tracks out of Live into a hardware DJ mixer.
Am also ambitious enough to bring along a XoxBox and a portable synth (Virus Snow/Blofeld) , midi sequences triggered from live clips, all tweaks done on board the synths to ease Macbook CPU. Is Live's midi timing stable enough for external synths ?

I will try to keep as many tracks as audio loops as possible and try to put as little strain on the CPU as possible.
Will Novation Automap from the SL49mk2 conflict with the APC 40 or any of the other midi controllers ?

For guitar should i bring a hardware rig for my guitar sound or would i be able to run NI Guitar Rig on the same CPU, it seems a bit too much/dodgie!!

Last of all, the project consists of songs and as i don't intend to be DJing between tracks, how do i load new projects in between songs, will that take a long time ? How do u guys approach this ?

Please help me launch this project, its been a dream and i want to do it right. Sorry for the long post.
Live electronica acts, please share how u approach this. Help me simply this.

Thanks so much
FB

[navitus]

Oh, forgot-----am i trying to incorporate too many USB devices ? Am concerned about conflicts, dropouts, USb bandwidth issues....

[UKRuss]

Cool.

OK, my 2c as i also perform Live with guitars, guitar rig etc.

My first feeling is it may all be too much with the synths as well. Bounce the synths to audio clips and fire at will. Same with the softsynths unless you must play them live, bounce to audio.

Stream of the internal drive.

APC40, check, Maschine, Check...will work nice.

Run the guitar via Guitar Rig, then you can programme in patch changes and tweaks etc.

Build a live set where all your clips and instruemnts for every song you will perform are in one set, you dont want to be loading new projects between songs. just use the right and diagonal down approach so each set of songs clips are, below the previous song and across to the right on their own tracks. leaving just a master guitar track and a master Maschine/Kore track.

As for CPU, you need to build the set and then set it up as per your live rig and test it, tweaking as you go til you are happy with the CPU load.

if it is low, add in an external synth, if it is high reconsider Kore 2 or your guitar set up etc.