Anybody use GarageBand as a performance tool?

... maybe backing for your solo gig or something?
I really like GB for its simplicity. I have got more work done on it than Ableton, Reaper, Logic Ex and Acid combined. It just works for me and is easy to muddle my way round. However, I have performance opportunities coming through and before I go back to Ableton Live's Session view and play back the aiff's I have made in GarageBand, just thought I would ask if someone has figured out a system to play live with GB. My gig is a solo vox and acoustic guitar with tastful percussion, bass and 'atmosphere' backing.
Thanks.

Haven't gigged GB but I have used it in conjunction with a USB keyboard at practice sessions to do a little bit of keyboard. Although it works, I'd have serious concerns about the robustness of the hardware for a gig - USB and especially Firewire cables fall out far too easily, mini stereo jack outputs bend and break, and you don't really want to drop your laptop or have someone pour a beer over it.
Also, if you're effectively playing to backing tracks, what would be the advantage of GB? If you've exported AIFFs you won't get any better sound quality from using GB at the gig, and having 'live' access to your master backing tracks could be a recipe for disaster - you might accidentally mute, solo, delete, or worst of all, move one of your tracks so it's out of time to the others...
I think Murphy's Law applies, so keep it simple with AIFFs

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Hey Gillermo... I might have to eat my words. I had a good think about this last night and I have come up with a plan. Just shooting from the hip and so might need some refinement, but here goes...
The problem as I saw it with Garageband was two fold...
1. how to lay out several songs or groups of pre recorded tracks and tracks with effects on them for my vocal and guitar and
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Now thinking in groups of 8 tracks, the 2nd set of 8 tracks (tracks 9-16) is set up in a similar way with tracks 9-10 duplicates of 1-2 (vox & guitar) and 3 sets of bass and drums (or what ever). You would name each set of bass and drum tracks with the name of the song so you could always find out where you are. You could also apply instrument icons for easier identification.
So starting with fader bank 1 and tracks 1-4 un muted, you would have muted all the other tracks in the entire set ( before you started your show obviously). Hit play, sing your song... hit stop. Hit rewind, mute tracks 3-4, un mute tracks 5-6, hit play when ready and away you go with song No.2. Repeat for song 3. Once you have completed these 3 songs and made sure all of the tracks are muted via the Nano, press the button that moves the controls to the next set of 8 tracks or 3 songs.
Now in terms of performance there would be some trial and error needed to find out how big the project file could be before there were computer performance issues. I read somewhere there was an upper limit of approx 240 tracks in GB. In reality you would be thinking in terms of how many songs there are in your sets. So in this scenario if you had 15 songs in each set you would only need 40 tracks or 5 sets of 8 fader banks.
To minimize performance issues with projects getting on the large side, in between your sets you could close the project with set one in it and open the project file with set 2 in it.
A couple of other layout options would be to use an entire bank of faders for each song. You could have between 5-8 tracks usable per song. You could have a combination of audio, .wav/mp3, electric guitar and software instrument tracks. Simply go through the mute/unmute process as you scroll through your songs.
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5. Very cheap investment.
The Con's would all revolve around your computer spec's.
1. Max out your RAM.
2. Be selective with effects
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