Worship Musician January 2019 | Page 56

I would say is always keep it in a case if you similar tools… just in different ways. can, or get a stand or mount that keeps it in the thing too is that technology can always just be used for practice, you don’t have to use it live. case when you’re on stage. Power is always The other thing you see with houses of worship Just the ability to pull up a song and review an issue now, we use OnSong at trade shows is that they tend to be more stationary, so they it, take notes, practice it and to have it there a lot when were testing, we don’t charge them go to the same stage, everything is set up just in case you forget the lyrics. I’ve been to during that time and it’ll be on for twelve hours the same way. But OnSong was really built to concerts where the lead vocalist is singing their a day. So power isn’t always an issue but the be a mobile tool, so a lot of our mainstream song and they forgot the lyrics, it just happens. problem is you might show up to a gig and customers use it that way so they’re loading in I think it’s up to the user how much of a crutch realize you didn’t charge it the night before and and loading out every week. Again, with houses it’s going to be, but I also love that it’s helping then you’re in trouble. So I would always plug of worship you may have a mobile church that people who normally couldn’t play music, it in on stage when you can, or at least have a meets in a school, and they love it because its people who might only have a couple hours a battery backup that you can plug in if you need. easy to set up and easy to configure wherever week to practice because they’re working two you’re meeting. So there are a lot of similarities. jobs, or in the case where you might have some Another thing I would say, even though the We also find that there is a lot of crossover, I older musicians that can’t see very well or can’t iPad has a lot of great wireless capabilities, think musicians are going to be musicians and remember the lyrics, it gives them a new lease Bluetooth is especially solid. We’ve only ever they’re going to play Friday night if they can on their musician life and I think that’s really a had maybe one or two people ever say that and play Sunday too. So it’s interesting to see, blessing for us all. they had a problem with Bluetooth at a gig, but even though we have a lot of worshippers there wireless is sometimes the weak link. One of the are a lot of people who just love playing music. [WM] Thanks again for joining us. Is there things that OnSong does is allow you to import OnSong allows them to do that and practice anything else you’d like to add including everything onto the iPad, so you’re not having and keep doing what they love. any new features that people can expect to to go to the internet to get content. Because if see soon? you’re in some venue and people show up with [WM] What are your thoughts about the fine all of their cell phones and connect to the wifi line between using technology as a tool versus [Jason] We just recently changed the way and everything goes down, we want OnSong a crutch? we version OnSong because we realized that to keep running no matter what. So wireless we’re not going to come out with the next bit communication is sometimes a weak link [Jason] I think anything can be a crutch, thing all at once, we tend to add new features depending on where you’re playing, so make whether you’re using paper on stage... I think and surprises to every new release. We do have sure you’re ready for that. as musicians we should always be trying to a small list of things that we are trying to work better ourselves, to mentor for somebody on, and some of those involve how OnSong [WM] Are there any key differences between while we’re being mentored, and I think the generates chord charts and giving them more how your worship and mainstream customers last thing I want is people to feel like they need flexibility to the end user. Things like formatting use OnSong? the iPad in order to play the music. That’s those chord charts, how you handle chords probably something that’s more personal, to and different columns and pages and stuff like [Jason] What I like about OnSong, and in a lot work on their musicianship and not to simply that. That’s really what we’re focusing on right of audio technology, is that the church is kind play what’s on the page. One of the things we now. The other thing that’s interesting for those of leading the way in a lot of ways. The church do at our church, is we actually have one iPad who are into MIDI and are geeks like me, there’s gig is at least once a week, usually more, and that allows us to pull the songs up so we know a lot of great stuff on the horizon with MIDI and you’re usually dealing with volunteers, so the these are the songs, how they start, it’s always we’re looking to integrate that into OnSong whole industry is pretty much gearing for that. handy to have the lyrics there in case you forget as well. Some of the issues people have with Things cost less because of this, and things are the lyrics. But we put them onto TV’s on the integrating their instruments on stage is that easier to use because of this. What we find that floor using a feature of OnSong called Stage it’s just kind of confusing, you need to be a I think is different is that our mainstream users Monitor Mood. Putting them on the floor is computer nerd to do it, so some of the things typically would be those that need a large library interesting because you’re not going to sit there that are happening with MIDI are going to make of music to work with different venues, different and stare at the floor the whole time, so it really it a whole lot easier for people moving forward. genres, and different clients, whereas the encourages me to look up at the congregation We’re really excited about that, we’re hoping worship teams usually use less content week and then really only look down in the case to be able to demo some of that at NAMM to week so their libraries might be significantly where I need to. And that helps you to work on this year. smaller. But I think you see that they’re all using listening a little more to your team. The other 56 January 2019 Subscribe for Free...