Bass Effects Software for live playing

[yanezrj]

Wanted to get some players opinions about what would be a good bass effects software to use on my laptop while playing live. I've got a bad ass Dell Precision laptop with 12gigs of RAM and an M-Audio interface. I've heard there are USB pedal boards too that you can also use live but I just haven't seen anything real prominent like an industry standard or anything for bass. Seen plenty for ProTools stuff but not real interested in that and I thought that was primarily recording anyway. I just want a good solid effects software for bass that isn't going to cost me an arm and a leg.
Thanks for anyones input.

[yanezrj]

I'm new to the whole daw thing so forgive my ignorance in my questions. But what I am wanting to do is to setup my windows 7 64bit Dell precision 6400 laptop as a bass effects processor to be used live. I have an m-audio USB interface but that's it. I am wanting people's opinions on what software to use and possibly any additional hardware. I am really wanting to get back into using effects for my playing and really don't want to go out and re-buy a bunch of pedals or drop $500+ on a rack unit. I figure I have this laptop (3.5GHz 2xdual core processors (4 cores), 12gigs of Ram and 10k mirrored drives) that I really don't use much so why don't I make this a dedicated multi effects system for my rig? I don't really want to do recording with it just use it to run effects for my bass. Any one got any ideas?
Thanks

[Zanpa]

Mixcraft DAW. Massive and about $100. Super easy to use.

[fasto]

Native Instruments: Guitar Rig 5

IK Multimedia: Amplitube or Ampeg SVX

for both apps hardware for (foot-)switching the effects are available.

[rattyman]

You could try Ableton LIVE, it has a comprehensive library of effects plugins and is designed with live playing as opposed to recording in mind.

[yanezrj]

Thanks everyone, I finally have some direction! I really had no where to go! Thank you!

[rottenramone]

Go search for this talkbass dude with the handle "jufros". He documents his software efx journey in this forum