Worship Musician April 2019 | Page 189

sounds at your command. Our search had ended. The sounds were just been playing through the library in Sunday what we’d been wanting. Sounds and sound after sound brings to mind Of course, you can use MainStage with the Many of you already understand how to use what I hear on modern worship recordings. sounds bundled with it from Apple. I’ve done MainStage. For you, I highly recommend Knowing that I can emulate the textures and that for years and often felt frustrated with the that you check out the sounds that Sunday colors heard on those recordings at my church pad sounds I’d find. I spent some time last week Sounds programmers have created. They are is exciting. showing a friend how to utilize MainStage with stunning! If you’ve ever lamented the fact that his keyboard and laptop. We got everything you couldn’t afford to buy some of the high- Some of you might have an older keyboard that hooked up and started building his first set of end software for creating sounds, I think you’ll you think sounds too dated to use in modern sounds to layer. As we browsed this or that discover sounds within the library of Sunday worship. As long as your keyboard has MIDI pad library within Apple’s built-in instruments, Sounds that are just as beautiful. And they are or USB outputs you can use MainStage. You’ll we were both disappointed. Nothing had the much more affordable! need an Apple laptop to host the software. Run warmth that we were looking for. Then we a USB or MIDI cable between the keyboard and started checking out Sunday Keys’ sounds. Many worship musicians now strive to replicate laptop and all the functionality and sounds of The programmers at Sunday Keys are using the sounds used by worship artists on their Sunday Keys are yours. A Korg Nanokontrol MainStage’s synth engines and effects to make recordings. If you’re a keyboard player hoping or similar device would be needed as well, and these sounds, but they have the rich character, to have some of those sounds under your an audio interface is recommended to get your warmth, and frequency range we’d wanted. fingers, explore the sounds offered here. I’ve laptop’s audio to your sound system. When you visit SundaySounds.com you quickly can tell that the folks who work there are worship musicians. Tutorials abound to help you use layered worship patches, create your own patches, prepare a setlist for live performance, use a tonic pad player and use tap tempo function. Explore the website. Take advantage of free sounds they make available. It won’t take long for you to discover amazing sonic possibilities for you that you can easily access through the use of the Sunday Keys MainStage template. $50.00 MAP SundaySounds.com Ed Kerr Ed lives in Seattle with his family. He serves as worship arts director at First Free Methodist Church, teaches keyboards in Paul Baloche’s leadworship workshops and is a clinician with Yamaha’s House of Worship. He also manages the Yamaha Worship Facebook group and invites you to join the group. KerrTunes.com April 2019 Subscribe for Free... 189