With regards to LIVE2. I use this program live. Only I trigger it with my drum kit. I will be building a control surface for it. You can download the demo of this product....that's what sold me on it. Steinberg now have the rights to this program or something and they sell a cut down version for around $30. This has an upgrade path to version 2. Just remember that with a bankstick you can change what your buttons do in a flash. This way you can keep your trigger button number to a reasonable level and still have 16 banks of trigger values. ie 12 buttons x 16 bankstick positions...............you do the math ;) Later Ian