How To Use Mainstage In Worship Service
Topic starter October 1, 2020 12:41 am
How-do-you-do. Been discussing playing live in worship services with Shane and now bringing it to the forum for more input/discussion. This is kind of a long postal service.
I would honey to hear how others apply Unify and what your alive setup is like.
I've been playing on worship teams for shut to xxx years. Mostly as keys, just several years of just piano. I've been on my latest team for ix years and is the first team I've really been able to use my synth background. When I first started, the leader asked if I had a keyboard and wanted me to add together synth sounds to the mix.
I still feel new to software. Later lugging my equipment back and forth for many years, I finally moved from being strictly hardware and started using software synths five years ago. I needed to take my sound to the adjacent level and for me, that meant software.
My current live setup consists of one keyboard and a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Sometimes I volition bring a 2nd keyboard if the fix requires it. I actually try to go on it to one, though. Uncomplicated. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Quick setup and tear down. And I use very light keyboards to assistance my back. I mainly use a Yamaha MOXF6 and the Native Instruments S61. But once in a while I may bring in something else. I take really been focusing on the S61 because I similar its interface and fantabulous integration with Ableton Live.
Ableton Live has a concept called Musical instrument Racks which is how you create layers. That's what I have been using for several years but have now been using Unify equally my starting point moving frontward. I just open Unify standalone now and edit everything from there. Then open Alive later when I want to put a set together. I need to convert my Instrument Racks to Unify but that is a big project I am scared to tackle.
My main VSTs are Omnisphere (lots of PluginGuru in my sets) and the Native Instruments pianos. I besides utilize some Diva and the erstwhile Windows version of Abracadabra. I practice a bunch of layering, tweaking and lots of editing.
We play between four or 5 songs and I have anywhere from viii to 16 sounds. Various pianos, organ, pads, synth stuff. I do quite a bit of live manipulation while playing, merely mostly programme the mod bicycle for what changes I need. I need to start using macro knobs more. I besides do some background, typically with pads but sometimes pianoforte and I will do live changes during this as well. Make things warmer or brighter, fade in extra sounds I then bring in/out. Stuff similar that. It'due south a ton of fun and allows me to add an emotional moving picture with the sounds.
I'll sometimes play arps (we play to a click track and then I utilize our tempo). In fact the very get-go fourth dimension I used Unify I had a string/bell for my right hand and an arpeggiated rhythmic bass in my left. Information technology was elementary but I always start out basic, exercise with something first, and slowly add it to my set. Information technology worked out great and I've continued using Unify more than and more e'er since. Unify has been solid and so far.
The next thing I really demand to piece of work on is integrating in PumpHouse for pulsing sounds. I admittedly love PumpHouse and actually need to work that into my sound editing and preparation. I take used some gated on/off sounds in the past, simply the curves in PumpHouse make information technology fashion more flexible.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Abracadabra 1.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
October ane, 2020 2:xv am
@ssquared I'g so glad you've started this word here. I've spoken to a few other church building musicians who are already very comfortable with advanced technology, and of course I want Unify to be able to meet all their needs in fourth dimension, but I really want to hear from musicians beyond the spectrum of tech-awareness. I'd like Unify to be the ramp to get everyone upward to the next level from wherever they are now.
Topic starter October 2, 2020 1:17 am
That sounds great @getdunne. I actually had written the following while I was writing the first postal service, but decided to remove information technology as the post was already besides long. I'm right there with you lot in wanting to aid the community and 100% volition back up and tell others about Unify. This isn't 100% exactly what y'all are saying, but it's a similar question on how to go others "to the adjacent level from wherever they are at present."
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I want to assistance others larn how to use their equipment and take advantage of all the sounds they have available to them. I often hear i piano the whole time and when I ask, discover out no ane knows how to utilise the keyboard. I've been trying to effigy out how to teach others how to use synth sounds. When I do, they finish up staying with piano every bit they don't understand how to play other sounds. Any insight into grooming/pedagogy in this expanse will be helpful. How do you aid someone get over that leap of wanting to play everything like it'due south a pianoforte?
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There is already competition in this expanse with at least two sites selling Mainstage and Ableton Live Templates specifically for worship keyboardists. Unify is capable of nearly all of what these do and offers a bunch more. I've actually been trying to figure out how to differentiate Unify from those others. Maybe promoting patch sharing across Ableton Live, Mainstage, FL, Reaper, etc. I'm non sure in that location is any video showing the same Unify patch being carried beyond multiple DAWs/computers. I think this is an important characteristic for keyboardists, though I practice get concerned over how like shooting fish in a barrel it is to share a commercial (paid for) sound. This actually seems to be a growing field in the industry where people are ownership pre-made patches for specific songs. Why not have Unify be that conduit? I also think MIDIBox is a potential surface area to point out. And feel Polybox can be a useful tool in worship every bit well.
I possibility to assistance those uncomfortable with tech similar MIDI/Program Changes is maybe take an 'arm track' concept. This may be helpful for all live musicians and is perfect now that a layer tin can be a Unify instance. Tap on a layer y'all want to play and all other layers do non receive MIDI. You can MIDI learn this option using buttons on a controller and then it becomes really easy to setup your sound changes without having to understand deeper keyboard programming. This does become a chip trickier once you add a 2nd keyboard, but there are ways to resolve it.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy i.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
October 2, 2020 vi:11 pm
@ssquared Thanks for these ideas and word starters!
Regarding less-experienced church keyboardists playing only piano, in that location seem to exist two dissever issues:
- Some people just don't know how to operate the musical instrument(s) they have.
- Many have no experience with non-piano keyboard technique, and stick with what they know.
Neither issue is something Unify can solve, only the ultimate answer may be more YouTube videos demonstrating basic techniques. If those are made using Unify, that would be terrific.
Regarding Unify vs. the competition, I would say our big distinguishing points are cantankerous-platform (Mac/PC) support, ease of use, and available patch libraries. I've heard from two people who use and teach MainStage for church, that the need to buy a Mac turns a lot of people off.Ableton Live is extremely powerful, just expensive and a bit intimidating. Unify is relatively cheap and comes with a many useful presets.
Regarding using Unify to play song-specific patches: I very much promise to meet people creating both song-specific and full general/stylistic libraries for church music in Unify. We haven't made a big bargain most it so far, merely multiple instances of Unify'south born Audio File Player can be used to play entire multi-rail stems, andMIDIBox can be used at the same time to play MIDI tracks. The forthcoming multi-output feature-pack for Unify will make this more than useful and applied, past assuasive different layers to be mixed externally to east.g. Front of Firm, In-Ear Monitors, etc.
Regarding your "arm track" suggestion, I'm still working on how best to bring this to Unify. We accept some of the key underlying technology in place already, then it'due south a question of how best to to nowadays these features in the GUI and for MIDI or OSC remote control. I'm open to any and all ideas.
Topic starter October three, 2020 12:45 am
@getdunne
Hi. Yep. That is exactly right. Videos will greatly help. I would similar to do YT vids, but I take no idea how to beginning. And editing. Time. Public speaking.
I would similar to offer some of my sounds, simply they require things like Kontakt pianos, Omnisphere, and quite often commercial libraries. One of my favorite pads I apply is an Omnisphere factory patch with a slightly edited patch from MegaMagic Violin or peradventure it's Viola.
Audio File Actor? I'll demand to look into that. I was going to mention adding 1 because it's helpful as I download our guide tracks and original recordings when I practice at habitation.
I have some thoughts on arming tracks, but they are a scrap convoluted. I experience the concept isn't difficult if you have a single keyboard, it's trying to handle multiple keyboards at once where things get tricky. Permit me think about information technology some more and see if I can bring it all together in my caput. As I've mentioned, I ever use MIDI Channels. And so arm every rail and let the keyboard command which track/audio to use based on the keyboard patch'south assigned MIDI Aqueduct outputs. Many DAWs allow you to set a rails to a specific keyboard as well. I'm simply not sure that is the approach you want to take with Unify.
Ableton Alive x, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy one.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
October 12, 2020 ane:14 pm
Hullo Guys,
i just stumbled over your lines 😀 Being a worship keyboarder since about 30 years, i always tried to combine classical sounds similar piano with pads, and spheric sounds only likewise to put synth lead sounds and arpegios into the mix. As a office of i team of three teams in our church building, i run into exactly what you are discribing. Most players of the other teams simply use the Piano or E-Piano Sounds, with some a flake "slow" sounding pad patches from the Korg GrandStage Piano. In my setup, i'm trying to let it audio more alive and diversified. Often asked past the other players how i get this interesting sounds i always say:"know your tools and how to use them".
I've used a ii keyboard setup in the early years. Later i used vsthost and Cantabile 2 performer as plugin host. when I saw the presentation of unify by Skippy, I didn't hesitate to buy it and i've non been disappointed until now. The ability to integrate my plugins into that intuitive environment and combine them with the features, unify's including, brings my sound to the next level. I'm integrating it into my live rig, with the GrandStage and some other midi Keyboard both connected to my (Windows 10) Notebook using different midi channels per layer. I'yard also using a Korg Nanokontrol ii programmed to trigger the macro knobs for taking control over the layer's levels and effects.
I tin recommend the usage of unify to all players in church who are request how to get a nifty sound and functioning in worship music.
I'm preparing a workshop for my church's keyboarders how to use unify in a setup. So the thought to produce some YT workshops for using unify in church building would exist a really great thing. My Suggestion would be a beginners level workshop, how creating sounds by using the unify standard plugins and libraries for the common songs. Building on information technology, the advanced level could exist integrating other plugins like Omnisphere, Kontakt or anything else for advanced sounds. I saw a workshop by hillsong music about sound desingn with mainstage for worship.
Regarding the "Arm Track" feature : In Cantabile2 I could program the mute and solo buttons of my nanokontrol2 to trigger the layer's mute / solo functions to switch between dissimilar sounds or instruments and switching through different setups with a pedal or an pointer button. In Unify i could imagine the aforementioned switching betwixt different unify layers with the solo / mute choice for a song and irresolute the setup for unlike songs with the "patch modify" office assingned to a specific button on the controller.
I'one thousand looking forward for a practiced discussion and exchange of ideas, using unify in this thread.
Greetings from Germany
Unify, Addictive Keys, Korg M1e, Orchestral, Keyzone, lounge lizard
Topic starter October 15, 2020 ix:40 pm
@andy1972m Thanks for the post. Glad to go more word going.
Yeah, I was hauling a bunch of equipment every week, back and forth. It grew tiring. It's not direct what led me to using software synths, but was part of the journey that eventually has me where I am today.
I can recommend the usage of unify to all players in church who are asking how to go a not bad sound and performance in worship music.
That'south so absurd to hear. Afterward this discussion started, I began to work on a set of sounds for worship using only Unify. There are already some well-suited sounds available in the base Unify.
Let united states of america know how the workshop went.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy 1.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
January 4, 2021 x:49 am
@ssquared
After this discussion started, I began to piece of work on a set of sounds for worship using only Unify. At that place are already some well-suited sounds available in the base Unify.
Yes i agree, the Unify internal sounds are a good starting point. The cool affair is, to be able to supplant any sound with patches of other plugins if needed. I am too working on some worship patches. Do you at present Sun Sounds ? They are offering Setups and patches for Mainstage with ableton alive. In their Youtube channel, they accept tutorials for creating patches for different songs from Hillsong, Bethel and more. I think, Unify has now reached maturity, to do the aforementioned. I did a patch for "This Amazin grace" based on their suggestions, using PumpHouse, BlueArp, and RipChordplayer combined with macros for filters and layer volume.
Why non making it possible, to exchange patches or creating libraries for church employ, based on unify standard sounds.
Unify, Addictive Keys, Korg M1e, Orchestral, Keyzone, lounge lizard
January four, 2021 iii:31 pm
Why non making it possible, to exchange patches or creating libraries for church employ, based on unify standard sounds.
We already have a forum for this. Whorl to top, click on "Forums", and cull Share your Unify patches and presets. Click the blue "Add Topic" push button if you want to create a new topic specifically for church building sounds.
Topic starter January 5, 2021 3:39 am
@andy1972m
How-do-you-do. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten besides far since I last wrote. This is a proficient reminder, equally I really forgot about it. I was working on sounds for the UniSCREAM library, so practicing and making sounds for Nov/December sets. Yeah, I used to use a pb sound on my Yamaha synth for "This Is Amazing Grace" but now I use a audio on Diva. I'm trying to remove my reliance on hardware and move all to software so I can mix and lucifer whatever controller I want and even so take all the sounds I need. Though I really like the Yamaha Motif sounds (I have a Rack-XS and MOXF). That's corking you created something in Unify.
Aye. I visit Sunday Sounds every so frequently, merely I haven't watched many videos and oasis't purchased anything yet. I also visit "That Worship Sound" which also has similar templates for Ableton/Mainstage. I recently purchased some of their Omnisphere libraries. This concept for Ableton/Mainstage is exactly what I'd like to run into with Unify. I agree, I think Unify is fully capable of the same idea.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy 1.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
April 24, 2021 8:38 pm
I too play synth for worship at our church. I employ a Surface Book 2, Komplete keyboard S61 Mk2, and a Komplete A25. I likewise used to employ a Surface Pro 3 but it'southward very old now and I needed something to handle bigger synths better, similar Omnisphere.
Cantabile is awesome for the Windows platform. It too has instrument "racks" and I was building more of those to use, but one time I got Unify (on Mean solar day ane) I switched to edifice patches there, of course. Being app-doubter now I could use these "racks" (patches) anywhere, that was amazing.
I take a glitch that happens in Cantabile though, where when loading Unify instances often the pitch (or arp tempo) is off. So I've had to add a macro on song load in Cantabile that steps to the next patch so back to the previous patch (Cantabile can snapshot patches in an instrument equally its own thing). John said he had something similar happen to him before in a live operation. I don't remember this is stock-still nevertheless, but the workaround is that vocal load macro.
April 24, 2021 8:42 pm
Oh, another thing that helped me, especially when using arps, pump house, and other tempo-synced stuff (our church building uses click as well) is that whenever I am playing, I control the click. Cantabile has a built-in metronome, and I have assigned two buttons on my Komplete S61, one to start click, one to stop click. And so and so everything in Unify is tempo-mapped to Cantabile's click, which is what anybody in the team is hearing.
Topic starter April 25, 2021 ten:38 pm
I utilise a Surface Book 2, Komplete keyboard S61 Mk2, and a Komplete A25. I too used to use a Surface Pro 3 but information technology's very sometime at present and I needed something to handle bigger synths improve, like Omnisphere.
That'due south Smashing! Enjoy the SB2. How do yous like the S61 Mk2? I have been using the S61 exclusively now for months. It's been working out neat for me.
I as well upgraded to a new estimator at the beginning of the year. Had a great 5.5 yr run with the SP3.
I accept started to embed the BPM directly into my Unify patch and plough off "Follow Host". Otherwise, if I terminate a song with a delayed sound, changing the tempo affects that audio as it fades out. Not just does the filibuster change, but it can also touch on the pitch. Since yous are using Cantabile to control the click, you lot can still employ your method to change BPM, only perhaps embedding BPM into your Unify patches will aid resolve the issue you are seeing.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy one.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
May 1, 2021 7:16 pm
@ssquared I do like the MK2; 2 big screens... I wish they would have included vertical sliders on the keyboard; there's so much space available for them. OTOH, the Korg nanoKontrol two is decent.
March 18, 2022 4:58 pm
Hi Unifiers
I'one thousand looking at Unify (complete newbie) - hopefully for use at home and at church building, and looking for a bit of clarification to make sure I have a reasonably articulate agreement of what's possible.
I'1000 trying to come up with a response to some environs-sound audio routing concepts that have been bopping effectually in my head ...(they don't take to work to difficult ...small brain!) ...and hoping Unify could be a part of the solution I've spent some fourth dimension in the manual simply haven't seen much info about audio routing. The "Signal-Path.PNG" is helpful but I haven't come across item nonetheless about assigning a Unify instance to a specific sound out of my DA ...(a StudioLive Series 3 in my case). Going a scrap further, I hope to notice the ability to road audio by layer ...if that's a affair.
I doubtable that I may exist ahead of myself in that I may need to commit to whether I'm running Unify within a DAW (Studio One or Logic in my case) or if I'yard running Unify equally a stand up-lonely in a live setup. I think I understand that I'd deal with routing to carve up audio outputs within the DAW in that operational config, but am really wondering nearly the live thing ...where I would presumably be running Unify as it'due south own boss. If details to audio routing for the purposes I'm trying to refer are out at that place and everyone could point me to that info, it would be MUCH appreciated.
While I'yard at it ...and having read through several of the threads, I get that Unify is geared to soft synths ...(I believe yous young fellers refer to them as plug-ins). I also go that several of you lot accept said that you don't have to schlepp every bit much gear effectually anymore, because of the sound/synth power represented in a decent laptop and Unify + plug-ins, but ... I have my sometime 15-5080 and TG-77 and all those sound outs and voices in a mere 50lb box (uggh). Are people "unifying" old synth patch lists, so that patch/depository financial institution change MSB/LSB stuff could become part of what Unify tin command?
(Obviously, the externally created sound from those synths would not be processable inside Unify - but I'm assuming that the MIDI processing would be.) Is that correct? Is it worth the effort to incorporate them?
Plainly, mixing to mono/stereo for live is the most often encountered setting, just I'chiliad imagining something more than immersive for certain things ...and with swell respect to church tech team members (I is one!) ...throwing surround audio at them and having it come out as hoped/needed is more religion than is justified ...(a justification joke). I'g hoping that Unify's ability to automate much of the tweaking "alee of the mixer/PA" would simplify and help achieve the desired results, likewise as add to the creative possibilities.
Cheers (and thanks to Simeon A for making me aware of Unify)
March eighteen, 2022 7:eleven pm
@daygig
Welcome, and thank you for bringing these questions to our Forum.
Unify does not yet back up multiple outputs, just this is on the way as role of a paid feature upgrade later this year, which will also include the power to use external hardware synths (in stand up-alone Unify only).
Are people "unifying" old synth patch lists, so that patch/banking concern alter MSB/LSB stuff could become function of what Unify tin can control?
This remains experimental at the moment, but Unify already has some back up for this "nether the hood". Please explain further what capabilities you would like to see, and why, i.e., how y'all would use them.
March 19, 2022 vi:41 pm
Hi @getdunne
thanks for your responses. I wait forward to hearing almost the "split audio outs" upgrade you referred to.
Regarding the use of external synths, I would hope to exist able to: layer, practise kybd and velocity splits, arpeggiate, ship midi notes with velocity (for drum/percussion patterns for example) out to V-pulsate or synth modules ...with many of the settings (and more that I can't think of or aren't enlightened of withal) stored within the overall "Unify patch". (Forgive me if much of what I've asked for/referred to is already laid out in the manual - still finding my style circular in in that location.) Manifestly the "Unify patch" could only do so much of the lifting, as the external MIDI device has to have the physical power to respond to what it would be being asked to do past Unify. (So a 64 voice external synth wouldn't magically become a 128 voice synth)
...but Unify could sure add together the extra sound-goodness of those extra 64 voices (and more) inside the overall "Unify patches" I'm imagining.
In a natively multi-timbral synth like the XV-5080 (and many many more), I'd presume that I would create a "performance" patch (with 2 to xvi MIDI ch's assigned for utilise within the performance ...or else you wouldn't need to exist in multitimbral mode and could just use it in single patch fashion). I'm pretty sure that Unify could merely send the MIDI patch alter to call back the operation (with its already assigned sounds-to-MIDI ch's settings). If I selected a new Unify patch that allows for specific banking company select then program modify to be sent (incorporating whatever tiny bits of delay required to allow the bank select to exist responded to and And so the program change), then information technology would allow for the external synth to stay on i functioning patch, merely permit the individual per-MIDI ch patches to be changed as required. This would proceed the audio-output, EQ, reverb etc settings of the external synths from changing (...dropping out or otherwise glitching) ...as these settings wouldn't change within the functioning patch (unless you sent a "modify the performance patch" MIDI mssg from Unify ... on the MIDI ch assigned to receive those mssg'due south in the external synth.
Again ...total newbie (while being old and with too much old gear!) hither. If at some signal (similar maybe now), the communication is ..."wake up and smell the coffee - information technology's a new century. Use the new fashion of doing things" (likely by moving entirely to plug-in world). Then maybe that's what I have to do.
However, in thinking near moving to "live" applications, if I play my RD-2000, so unless nosotros lose power altogether1, I'm going to have a pretty stable arsenal of sounds that are very unlikely to crash or go a USB cable trod on (hello BG vocals). And so some combination of (fabulous, astonishing) new tech like Unify and similar, used in tandem with "stable hardware" is quite desirable ...in my simply-brand-it-as-complicated-as-you-need-to mind.
A kicking-in-the-pants to move on advice may be required, merely if reasonable efforts to incorporate "stuff that'due south less prone to fail" do seem valid, then that'due south what I'm asking about. The other consideration is that if I'm off-loading some of the full sound-requirement to create a cool Unify patch to some external hardware, and then that leaves more ram, processing power, operational headroom in whatever estimator I'm running on.
Typically ...headroom = good. Maybe current laptops are only so good (as I blazon on my 2012 MacBook Pro), that I'thou merely unaware of what I'm missing. Thanks once again for responding.
This post was modified 3 weeks ago past daygig
March xix, 2022 vii:05 pm
@daygig
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I volition make notes about your suggestions for MIDI bank/patch changes to be saved in a patch.
I promise to be able to achieve substantially all that you have described in a near-future "deluxe" version of Unify.
As to whether your approach is "one-time-fashioned", as far as I know, most live performers prefer to utilize an bodily hardware synth/pianoforte/organ every bit their "MIDI main keyboard", rather than a MIDI-only device, because this will let them to go along going in the event of a estimator or software failure. Well-nigh practice not try to integrate their MIDI keyboards/modules tightly into their software setup, but this is probably considering there has been so footling skillful software back up for that. I'd similar to see what nosotros tin attain there.
Take you looked at existing software tools such as Cantabile, Gig Performer, Mainstage, Camelot, etc.? I'd exist interested in your thoughts about any limitations you lot may note in these products.
March 19, 2022 vii:41 pm
Hi @getdunne
I've been exposed just a little to Chief Stage - but due to work demands simply haven't been able to spend the time required to become skillful with it. Life change has fabricated information technology possible to pick the manuals on stuff dorsum up and also to become aware of new (to me) absurd stuff like Unify.
Your feedback on using at least some sound-capable hardware equally part of a alive rig is encouraging, and what I hoped to hear.
The work yous folks have done on Unify so far is incredible. The programming chops on code AND on sound creation really have you guys well positioned and its exciting to call up what may yet come. I don't know if it'south useful to you lot folks to consider work on external hardware as being a chief part of what you are doing, but your reference to a "deluxe version" makes me think that information technology may exist worth some additional consideration.
I'k non trying to shill for a item product, but if you guys were able to work on something like integration with a PreSonus StudioLive 16R (or their big brother units, or like from somebody else - pls no Beringoo), then the potential to go Unify audio across the USB interface the 16R has built in, to split up analog and AVB (or Dante!) digital sound outs is a scrap mind blowing to think of for audio-routing, monitoring, integration with external overall EQ & master FX etc.
Perchance??? ...if we expect at those analog-to-dig audio inputs that aforementioned 16R unit of measurement has and wonder what processing / vocording / harmony processing, tuning (equally in ...more talent in the monitors please 🙂 ) might be possible if some of that audio could get routed to Unify ....hmmm. I'grand style out of my depth in terms of agreement the programming grief I may have just touched on, but my express understanding of what you lot guys seem to have already achieved makes me wonder where you lot could take this ...specifically on the audio side.
The ravings to a higher place would potentially touch back on the "integrating external synths" stuff in previous message. If the external synths were sound-patched into a Unified audio-mixer, AND the synths themselves were beingness patch and MIDI controlled by Unify ...that's pretty deep homo.
Possible add-ons to "Unify" specific hardware would be sellable (and exist gratefully paid for I imagine) ...but obviously you guys have to practice the math on how much work would notwithstanding make it worth it to do.
I'm about to download my copy - thanks once again.
Topic starter March twenty, 2022 ix:35 pm
@daygig
Best thing is to use what makes you feel comfy. Don't feel forced with using software. I had similar concerns. I stuck with hardware for a long time. I knew it was solid and I could trust it. I was scared to utilise software and have it possibly crash. I used to lug two keyboards, a stand, a rack (which includes a JV-1080, you mentioned the 5080) and mixer and I eventually grew weary of packing it upward, setting information technology up, tearing information technology down, practices, Dominicus mornings. I bought a new Yamaha synth and got things down to a single keyboard I carried under my arm. I was still using hardware for a few more years.
In 2017 I had reached limits and realized software volition permit me to expand my audio palette in a direction I could not achieve with my hardware alone. I wanted a much larger variety of pads to cull from and I knew I would eventually want to utilize more than the grand pianos I had. But that is me. Worship teams accept been using Merely a grand pianoforte for years (in fact, the previous seven years I played a thousand) and that doesn't finish the worship. Every bit a sound designer, I actually bask being able to sculpt an surround for the congregation. I knew I needed more than at my fingertips to allow that to happen.
I still took a tiresome journey. I started with Omnisphere. And that was it for most of the years since. More recently I picked up the Native Instruments pianos and Spire. And this twelvemonth added a few more unique piano libraries. Only I started with 1 plugin, Omnisphere, as pads were the well-nigh important addition I wanted.
I'll finish it with a story. My nightmare state of affairs was for the software not to work. I had been using my reckoner now for a few months and it was going pretty well. I had fabricated a set up for our Easter programme and was working on the project and practicing on my own for several weeks. The week of the set, we practiced as a team every night. No issues. Saturday night, we warmed up through a few songs. All practiced. I rebooted my computer to clean out memory (something I learned to do or my sounds could glitch out) and walked away. We got out to the stage a few minutes before things start and I go to load my project and it won't load. I tried multiple times. Won't load. Won't load a backup. Are yous kidding me? We started and I played with 1 manus while trying various things on the reckoner with the other. Eventually, I gave it upwards to the Lord, knowing it didn't matter. He will take intendance of it. I stopped worrying and focused on the nighttime. I knew my hardware synths well plenty, I was able to employ those sounds. No one knew my soundset was clobbered and the dark was a success. That night I went home, and debugged my project until I narrowed it downwards to an effect plugin that was getting quarantined. Information technology wasn't even a sound I was using, just a potential idea I had been working on. Lord's day forenoon, I was ready to become and the computer worked without problems. I never once more worried about it.
I still apply my Yamaha on occasions. I'll be using information technology this calendar week as it does have some sounds I like for a song in the setlist. But the last two years, I have mostly used the Native Instruments S61 MK2 (no sounds) and use only software.
Ableton Live 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy 1.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
March 22, 2022 vii:12 pm
Hello SSquared
I capeesh and endorse the feedback and perspective very much - and acknowledge that in the economy of worship, simple heartfelt devotion expressed in spoken or sung word with picayune or no accessory can be simultaneously completely humbling / awesomely powerful.
...while retaining the noesis that cardioid subwoofers, latency-matched audio+video, multi-band compressors plus warm, wide, subtle, motion-including synth pads are also close to godliness 🙂
My personal preference is for less ...well run or well played stuff rather than more within the context of live congregational worship - unless "the more" is an actual net positive to what is already underway. So... much of my inquiries chronicle to figuring how to "add together to the positive" in a stable way. If adding positively stable-y is confirmed ...then I can motion onto "is it needed", and if the reply is yes ...then I can do some more having vetted that in doing and then, it is actually helpful, and I certainly practice no damage.
I will check out Omnisphere when I get a adventure, but having just gotten into Unify, my picayune brain is already stretched for a while. The inventiveness inside Unify, its programmers and the customs of people using it is heed expanding and inspirational. I wait forrad to the (slow) learning process ahead of me.
Topic starter March 22, 2022 9:47 pm
@daygig
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Ableton Alive 10, Omnisphere, Native Instruments (Pianos), Spire, Hammer + Waves, Diva, SynthMaster, Alchemy 1.55, Addictive Keys, Unify
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