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Most of my live guitar playing has been through a laptop, since 2003, pretty much. First through the Max/MSP Patch Girl, and since then through Ableton Live. I'll use it to subloop and layer, to play against drum loops, to record my set, and to be able to mess with the sound in a number of ways. Live's pretty stable for performance--I've not had any onstage crashes with it (fingers crossed). When I was doing a lot of live-beat + improv guitar over it, I used a MIDI foot-controller for a lot of stuff, like advancing the current row of samples in Live, recording, stopping record, choosing effects, sweeping over parameters with the continuous controller while playing. (It's hard to get the hang of figuring out when the pedal needs a single press and when it needs a double.)

Bumping this thread because I've been looking at this too. I'm messing around with Amplitube on a windows 8 laptop, using a small pedal board for boost, modulation and delays. I'm thinking about using this for some small bar/coffee shop gigs. I like using Acid to build song ideas and maybe I'll try using that for background. I'm trying to move all modeling stuff to computer based since it's all heading that way anyway. I've said it before, some of the new stuff coming down the pipeline is just amazing.