New blog article: Best practices for a rock-solid software-based setup
If you have any tips to share, you can do it here 
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Nice setup example → LINK
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Nate Goulet @ Keyboard Players in Cover Bands:
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Tip 8: Always bring a backup laptop. Or
at a minimum, backup bootable hard
drive. An older computer will do in:
emergency, even if less than ideal.
Tip 9: If using a computer for your
instruments…or a modern computerized
workstation style keyboard (Kronos,
Montage, Fantom, MODX, Nautilus,
Fantom 0, etc), always have another
keyboard you could jump to in the middle
of a song IF something went wrong. While
the chances are less than that of your
guitarist breaking a string and having to
switch to a lesser quality guitar mid song,
or your an amp failing, or PA problem, it
could happen. Always be ready to switch
to something else to get through the
songs…If you had to. Don’t 100% depend
on one keyboard. Things happen, gear
fails, and we push wrong buttons
sometimes.
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A quote from the Internet:
“My general rule. I never buy a plugin intended use in for live performance if it requires iLok.”
Never had an issue with their computer based licensing. But their USB dongle solution is too dangerous for me, none of my live plugin need a dongle.
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Hmmm - That’s easy to say… The computers must have the same plugin configuration, the same amount of memory and the configuration must be kept up to date. I know something about this, as I’m trying to do it with two identical computers. If we don’t both use them regularly, I am not sure of the result if something would happen during a gig. Generally speaking, if the computers don’t run at the same time and are therefore immediately ready, I wonder how long it would take to switch from one computer to another… not sure it would be immediate. One thing’s for sure: we feel a little safer. 