Help with software selection for live use please (edited)

[mskrad]

Hello. Been lurking around here for a couple of years, but first post. Just kidding about the runon.

Here is my current scenario and question. Re forming a band with a couple of new members and a new direction. For now we are just doing covers (but will eventually do some original stuff, just not much market here in the midwest for that). We are a 6 piece hard rock band playing a variety of stuff from very late 70's through now. All hard rock or metal, with quite a bit of Aqua Net Theater from the 80's in the mix. So I need synth stuff for live use. I have a Roland Juno 60 that is still kicking after all these years (it was my first synth in high school). But I really need (want) to run soft synths like OP-X 2 for some of the presets because I'm too busy (lazy) to program my own.

I have a lite setup at home currently running through my desktop that consists of cubase LE, Komplete Elements, OP-X and a NI Komplete Audio 6. As it so happens my 6 year old duo core bit the big one this week and so now I'm free to go buy a nice ADK or other such laptop that I can port my stuff over for live use.

So my question is this. Without breaking the bank (remember, this is going to be used for playing stuff like jump, turn up the radio, runaway etc...not dream theater...that comes later), any recommendations for live software setups to do what I want? In other words, I don't need a huge Ableton Live Suite for what I'm doing (or at least I don't THINK that I do...I could be utterly in the dark here). I thought maybe something like Reaper running OP-X and the current software NI elements should get me 95% of the way down the road and the old roland could probably lug it the rest of the way.

Anway I hope this isn't too discombobulated of a question. Thanks for reading and thanks for any replies.

As to the hardware, my plan (since I need a new computer anyway) was to figure out the software needs first then just get the guys at ADK to recommend a system to run it.

Lance

Ps edited subject heading to be more Germaine