do you consider playing an automatic arranger kb playing
LIVE Music?
I sure do!
As long as I'm the driver of WHATEVER musical bus (instrument) I'm driving - I'm 100% live. If I was still the keyboard player in a band, I'd only be playing the keyboard parts - nothing different than I do NOW - except that I actually do more now to trigger the added fluff that makes me sound better. Most times, I'm the bass player, too!
Don't be a Debbie Downer.
Of course it's live ... unless all you do is hit the start button and then sit down. Singers are doing more today than they ever did in bands, and that's a good thing.
If there's a living being on stage doing ANYTHING - it's live. Of course there are degrees of how much ELSE is live, but there is no way you're going to convince this player that what I do isn't live creation. I am, and always will be a live musician ... using the latest tools to enhance what I bring to the stage.
Geeeze ....

I think you get too much enjoyment from playing devil's advocate.