Played a Show last night with Kyprios and Moka Only (formerly of Swollen Members). These guys are touring light, so all their back tracks and beats are running out of a laptop.
They didn't have the right cable to run from the laptop into the D.I. and had no other options. I hooked them up through the 18th inch input on my Gaia and voila. They ran the whole show through that! Sounded just fine!
I took a shot with my blackberry - Moka is on the left with Kyprios behind him. On the right you can see the gaia and a laptop preched on a barstool and two mic boxes, so my 10 inch cable could reach.