modern synthesizer sounds. The great thing you often like/dislike which will have you well how it works, so you won’t have to spend a lot
about many of these presets is that they’re on your way to developing your own unique of time painstakingly tweaking settings to get
ready to load up and play without a lot of sound. great results.
CHORD TRIGGER I truly can’t recommend this plugin enough,
tweaking required.
To access these presets, simply add EXS24
especially if you’re the only keys player on your
to a Software Instrument Channel Strip, open This probably takes the prize as my number the plugin and click in the green text area to one favorite feature in MainStage. If you’re not open up the dropdown menu of instrument familiar with Chord Trigger, you can add it to presets. From there you can browse sounds by any Software Instrument Channel Strip via the category to quickly find what you’re looking for. ‘MIDI FX’ area at the top. Chord Trigger does I have to be honest that it was hard to choose
what it sounds like it would, it makes it easy to only three favorites to discuss in this article. A
For Worship music, I especially recommend trigger a chord based off a single Input note. few honorable mentions would be the Silververb
giving yourself some time to scroll through This makes it a breeze to play larger than life Reverb audio effect, the MIDI Modifier MIDI
EXS24’s Synthesizer categories. There are keys parts. For example, programming your effect, and the Retrosynth instrument plugin.
some exceptional pad and lead samples that left-hand bass notes to also trigger full chord While I could go on and on about MainStage
sound great and can be dialed in even further voicings for pads, strings, or even piano, thus for much longer, I do think that for a worship
with the addition of some of MainStage’s audio freeing up your right hand to play a lead part, musician looking to get started with MainStage,
effects. I’m particularly fond of the “Soft Pad 1” textures, or whatever else you can come up the three favorites mentioned above will prove
preset, if you’d like a specific recommendation. with. helpful and inspiring.
The reason I love EXS24’s presets is that they It took me a long time to figure out how to utilize Now go explore them for yourself!
give you a great opportunity to browse different Chord Trigger, mostly because I neglected to finished synthesizer sounds quickly to identify read the aforementioned ‘Help’ documentation what you like and dislike, without requiring within MainStage. But I use it every single time advanced sound design experience. Over I perform live now and it is so incredibly helpful. time you can begin to dissect what elements It is very simple to setup once you understand
June 2019
worship team.
THREE OF MANY
David Pfaltzgraff
Founder
and
Lead
Sound
Designer
at
SundaySounds.com, a site that resources worship
keys players and guitarists around the world.
David currently resides in Des Moines, IA with his
wife and two boys. He enjoys volunteering in his
church’s worship ministry, old synthesizers, and a
good super-hero movie.
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