Transposing on the fly?

anyone know if it's possbible to take an M-audio keyboard into garage band in a live setting and the signal be transposed? for instance..i'm a guitar player who can play a mean piano in the key of G or C...but if the song is in Bb....i'm screwed. is there a way to transpose it up 3 1/2 steps and play in Bb but use G position on the keyboard or do I just need to learn the chords in the key of Bb?
thanks so much!!
db

thank you SOOO much. what fairly inexpensive program would be compatible with all the sounds i have in garage band (i have all the jam packs) and could do live transposing?
thanks again!!

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    First of all I was unsure of the best way to loop through the
    object - as I have to do it in order to get the correct layout...
    i.e. the first 3 "myDashboarComp's" are added to the >
    VBox that is added to > "panel1" that is added to the > HBox
    that is added to the > Canvas.
    This is where I ran into my second problem. I managd to loop
    through and read the elements checking there "item" in the object
    and adding them accordingly.... I could loop though and add each
    item to the canvas ok, e.g:
    [CODE]
    private function initApp():void
    for(var i:int=0; i<descriptorObj.children.length; i++)
    var itemType:String = descriptorObj.children
    .item.toString();
    var percentWidth = descriptorObj.children.percentWidth;
    var percentHeight = descriptorObj.children
    .percentHeight;
    addContainer(itemType, percentWidth, percentHeight);
    private function addContainer(conType:String, pWidth:int,
    pHeight:int):void
    if(conType == "panel")
    addPanel(pWidth, pHeight);
    else if(conType == "vbox")
    addVBox(pWidth, pHeight);
    private var newPanel:Panel;
    private function addPanel(pWidth:int, ptHeight:int):void
    newPanel = new Panel();
    newPanel.percentWidth = percentWidth;
    newPanel.percentHeight = percentHeight;
    newPanel.title = "test panel";
    dashboardCanvas.addChild(newPanel);
    [/CODE]
    in the above actionScript the canvas "dashboardCanvas" is
    already set up in the MXML (but is the only MXML container added as
    the rest should be built using the create object "descriptorObj" in
    AS).
    This is my next problem - when I have added a container,
    e.g. a panel the next items e.g. my "myDashboarComp's" should then
    be added to the previously added panel and not to the canvas
    anymore - I need some way of telling the app to add children to the
    last added container and not to the canvas (and each container can
    change type from a panel to VBox to HBox etc....)
    I hope what I am trying to say makes sense, and any help on
    this one would be greatly appreciated.
    I just need pointing in the right direction and some ideas on
    how to continue would be good - and if my thinking / method / ideas
    are actually possible.
    Kind Regards,
    Jon.

    There are several ways to do this. The third chapter in the
    cookbook is a good place to start.
    All things in ActionScript are based on objects. Constructing
    them with the data needed for the ui information you will need and
    then binding that data to your dashboard objects is basically what
    you are going to be doing.
    For me it makes the most sence to have an idea of what
    different types of objects you will be creating and create some
    extended components for those objects. Then when you recieve your
    data, binary or xml, you can digest the configuration settings from
    the layout and populate the constructor for each of your
    components.
    It sounds like you need to organize your layout structure in
    a heirarchy and from that you can walk each branch and create each
    set of things as you parse your data.
    Without a bit more information as to what you are
    specifically doing that is about as far as I can go minus adding in
    some code along some line that I think might work.
    Hope that helps some.
    -D

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