Hi guys!
I'm tryin' to organize my liveset (solo and with other electronic/electric/acoustic musicians).
I'll use Energy SA or XTE in combination with Ableton Live and/or Bidule...

I'm very curious about your way to do it live..
I'm mostly in the improvisation (i play acoustic piano too and i'm involved in different projects with a lot of improvisation).
So i don't prepare any midi sequence before playin (or just a very few to have the general idea of the various
tunes/situations).
Mostly i just prepare samples/sounds/instruments and effects with Syntedit/plugins networks (mostly Smartelectronix Stuff) and a lot of Controller Assignments....
I use usually 2 or 1 Keyboards (an Evolution MK-361C and a Fatar) and i have a Kenton Control Freak (16 sliders/buttons).
Then i use a microphone (for my voice or object to do
mostly live-sampling and recording and FX processing for various sounds and instruments and toys).
Often when i work with Bidule i use the Computer Keyboard as a additional controller with a plug-in called M-Key that take the focus from the keyboard and can generate midi notes following a custom key-map..then i convert those note messages to midi CC to mute/unmute thing on Bidule or even to trigger
samples or sequences.
So the only thing i miss right now (but Energy is very close to go to that level of live-power) is the feature of record on the fly midi clips (and audio clips too) and then trigger them when i need in my instant-composition method...
I'm trying to figure out ideas of what would be useful in this area in my humble opinion..i'll do it in other dedicated threads in this forum...
If you like, i'd very happy if you give suggestion or ideas and describe the way you play live.

thanxx

lalo