MAINSTAGE KEYS
NEW SOLUTIONS BRING NEW PROBLEMS | David Pfaltzgraff
Anytime you find a way to take your worship
team to the next level, rest assured that you’ll
come up against new obstacles, concerns,
or problems. This is especially true where
technology is concerned.
In last month’s issue, I shared some simple tips
to ensure that your team gets on board with
the motivation behind and benefits of using
software for your worship keys rig. If you follow
those suggestions you’ll be well on your way
to success, but just because your team gets
on board and you’ve played your first software-
based chord doesn’t mean you’ve arrived at
the final destination.
New solutions bring new problems and getting
out ahead of them will make sure you don’t
have to reinvent the wheel every year, month,
or week to make your MainStage (or other
software) based rig work for you and your
worship team volunteers.
LOOK MA, NO HANDS!
If you or your worship team have felt the
frustration of not being able to find (let alone
play) the keys sounds you’re hearing all over
modern
worship
music,
discovering
the
software-based approach can feel like a
breath of fresh air. The flexibility to shape your
sound, the near limitless expandability, and the
exciting adventure of a new sandbox to play in
can reinvigorate what might have grown stale
pre-software.
It can also be so open-ended that you or your
volunteers can get lost or not even know where Imagine a kid cruising down the sidewalk on So how can you both enjoy and leverage the
to begin. their bicycle, hands lifted off the handlebars for flexibility of keys software while avoiding the
the first time, wind flowing through their hair pitfall of being overwhelmed by that flexibility?
The near complete lack of guard-rails or only to realize that steering (or even stopping) In my opinion, the simplest way is to create
restrictions (at least that you are overtly made is a bit different without the familiarity of some rules (however arbitrary) for what
aware of) can be both a blessing and a curse, those handlebars. you’ll ask the software to do. Whether this is
enforcing a limit on the number of presets you’ll
especially for newcomers to the software world.
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April 2019
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