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USING THE SUNDAY KEYS APP FOR WORSHIP | David Pfaltzgraff
This month I’ m excited to share about something close to my heart, the Sunday Keys App for live worship keys players. Over ten years ago, I was a worship leader facing a problem many churches still wrestle with: how to make a small team with limited budget sound like the modern worship music their congregation loved.
At the time, I was tasked with leading youth ministry worship right as Hillsong Young & Free rose in popularity. The students wanted those fresh, modern sounds, but our only keyboard was a 1999 Korg Triton. After handing my volunteer keyboardist a chart with fifteen preset changes for one song, I knew there had to be a better way.
Repeated attempts to budget for a new keyboard were rejected, so I turned to software solutions like MainStage and Ableton Live. What began as a personal search soon grew into creating templates and presets that helped other worship keys players too.
That journey eventually became what we now call Sunday Keys, which started out as a simple MainStage and Ableton Live template and later became an all-in-one piece of software we developed from scratch that allows anyone with an iPad or Mac to level-up their church keyboard overnight, even if they’ re not a sound designer or tech-savvy.
The Sunday Keys App has been out in the world now for over three years, and I asked my friends at the magazine if I could share what we’ ve been adding to the App since then. Starting with …
AN INCREDIBLE SOUND LIBRARY
One of the things that sets Sunday Keys apart from simply buying a new hardware keyboard, or even using a different software solution, is that we constantly add new worship keyboard sounds to the software. In fact, we’ ve updated the sound library every single month now since 2021. Those updates have added hundreds of new presets to Sunday Keys, all designed for modern worship keys players.
If you follow worship music like I do, you know that it’ s a constantly moving target. Worship music now sounds a lot different than it did even five years ago, so it’ s exciting to be able to resource churches with what’ s new, current, and emerging with each monthly update.
Just this year we’ ve added five new piano instruments to the library, including two new grand pianos, a beautifully expressive upright, and some beautiful, felted character pianos that are soft and expressive.
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