Gigasampler or Motif es rack?

[jeff0633]

Hi guys. I am a soloact that uses midi backing tracks, and I play guitar. Right now I do this for a living. I have use a Roland jv-1010 to play my midi files for the two years I have been doing this. I am tired of the Roland proccesed sounds. I am thinking of selling my American strat, and I am not sure what I should buy. I could get a Pentium 4 laptop and run gigasampler on stage, and get the Conexant GM500 meg GM giga Cd. Here is some demo links to three demos of the 500 meg GM bank for Giga.
http://media.zzounds.com/media/GM500...c5c2402697.mp3
http://media.zzounds.com/media/GM500...78aa802b03.mp3
http://media.zzounds.com/media/GM500...c5c2402697.mp3

Sounds damn good with 500 megs of sounds, and it only has one drum kit, which means that most of that 500 megs is for instruments. That's good because I have a giga drum samples set, even a nice GM drum bank. I own an older Gigasampler, and it would run perfect on a penium 4 laptp with 512 ram. So, I could spend 500-600 bucks on a pentium 4 laptop, maybe 2ghZ, and then another hundred on the gM giga bank.

Or, I could go for the Motif es rack,. This would be more expensive, and I would probably have to even go in debt a little, but this thing surely doesn't have 500 megs worth of quality instruments, does it? Here are some demos from this unit.
http://www.motifator.com/listen/es/es_listen.php

Damn, this thing is loaded with effects and options, and is also a hardware unit, but the muti mode simply won't come close to the 500 megs of the giga bank. Do you experts think it sounds as good? I am tore about which way to go. The Giga way is cheaper and with more MB of quality, and it would function just like a GM module that is alway in multi mode, and using 500 megs of samples. There would be no fooling around with finding other samples, cause all I would have to do is load my good giga drums along with the GM Bank, and I could have a killer sound and the program would be easy to work with my GM files of all my backing tracks.

With the Motif rack, I would still have to use my older cheap laptops like I do now with the jV-1010, but a hardware unit is so reliable and this thing is loaded with effects and many many options. What would you guys do if you were a soloact guitar player that uses gM midi for backing tracks on stage. Here is a link to one of my live show songs with the jv recorded to a minidisc in mone at a show direct from the tape out on the mixer.

http://onlinerock.com/musicians/jeff...rningtofly.mp3


Any advice would be great.

Jeff