[mal777]

If you want to use it for live performance and play softsynths you will be better of with another program than PT.
PT can be a pain in the *ss when it comes to using it live, certainly with softsynths!
When i do a liveset i usually use Ableton on one laptop conected to another laptop running PT, only for compression and limiting because i love the massey limiter so much and it is not released as vst at the moment.
I think you will be better of with something like "V-stack". It lets you assign different softsynths to different midi channels.
Somebody correct me if i am wrong here... but with PT you can only play one synth at a time (live). You have to click on the instrument channel to activate its midi or chose the instrument you want to play in the midi preferences dialog. This way you are only able to play one instrument at a time.

There is not much difference between M-powered and LE, search the site and you will find the differences.

Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,
Backplay

Well you have me thinking now
I would prefer to use PT if possible, as I just love the electric piano Velvet and several of the sounds in Xpand.
I use an RD700SX as a midi controller, and my plan was to assign different midi channels on the RD so I can call up different instrument tracks in PT.(assigning each instrument track a different midi channel) For example channel 3 Xpand vibes, channel 4 Velvet Mk1 Rhodes, Channel 5 GVI etc etc.. I don't want to have to use a mouse to click on a track when at a gig, ....rather assign the various midi channels on the RD700 to a performance, and change soft synths within PT from the RD performance buttons. (I only need to play one instrument at a time.)

....so can this be done in pro Tools? If I use V-stack I wont have access to Velvet or Xpand