Try Ableton Live. You can get a demo for free, at least on Windows. I've found it's really goos for loop triggering - I write tunes in Reason mainily now, but for playing live we sample them out, cut them up and paste them into Ableton. After that you can map all your songs, one-offs, loops etc on to a keyboard, and Ableton keeps track of all your timing and shit. Works a treat.

I never got on with Acid too well, but I find Ableton really good, at least for playing live. I believe you can use it for writing in too just as well.

hth, FLip

I don't give a crap Jon, AoTC is a good film. I'm sure Spiderman is too.

Now go and do something something useful, please.