Well, i have only ever used eXT for a live gig so far. I use live mode and many set up's to do various pieces at home though, and most of the peices I create are made in live mode (or they are at least sketched out in live mode and then arranged in multi mode).
The one time I did use eXT on stage however was a complete dissaster!!
Not eXT's fault. My own stupidity. The gig was one of the heats for a competition involving bands from schools in the local area. The competition was in its third year, i'd entered the other two times with other bands (which shared a lot of memebers 
) but we never won any of the later stages. This time it was me and a drummer that decided to enter - just two of us, me doing one song on keys with vocals, and him on drums. The other with me on bass + vocals. Well, i'd set up a fairly large eXT project with a multi-layered keyboard type thing going on. Organ + piano layered on top with a bass in the lower keys. I also had a footswitch that made a pad swoosh when i pressed it. My first mistake was having this all in one arrangment, my laptop wasnt liking it from the start. I also was using my little ediirol usb mixer, with my own mic going in and my bass going in. This wasnt simple to set up! Took me ages, laptop, mixer, bass, mic, keyboard, pedal, loooads o leads!
(keep it simple folks!) So yea, sound check went ok, but my keys sounded very boomy on the PA speakers, waay too much bass (we also had no monitors so that was anoying). Ah well 'we thought' i'll add an EQ vsti at the end of the eXT chain - which sapped more CPU! My second mistake (or third, i dont know
) was to leave the laptop on for the entire night, and we were nearly the last act on. Im sure it'll be ok I thought. Then some little kid started messing with my faders on my keyboard which were controlling various things in the eXT project. arg. Finaly got on stage, pressed a key to 'test', and it was the most boomy, sustained sound you could ever hear that just sustained indefinatly! Pedal wasnt working, the project was making various pad sounds, my bass patch had been changed to a tarnce lead and my usb mixer had frozen with a constant audio signal. 'cr*p' was my initial thought of course - and instead of doing the most logical simple thing which would have sorted it all out (re-open the project and turn my mixer on and off) I started to try and fix my project and pressed keys and faders like a mad man trying to sort it. Eventualy the the what i needed to do was to re-set the asio drivers in the control panel. So i got sound again, but my CPU couldnt handel all of the setup so I had to delete my 'pad foot switch' wich was the only harmony for our bass song! And my keys sounded so horrible and boomy, you couldnt hear vocals, and our whole set was ruined. We got through it in the end, but it could have gone smoother! (:lol:) I should never have tried to make things soo complicated. Next time i'm using an acoustic guitar and a kazoo!
WoJ
but that would be a great plug to use live)
rob
Yea, but you miss half the fun. 