With the release of Mainstage 3.2, there’s been a ton of small additions that I’m loving. Here are my top 5 favorites:
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In the last 3 years of writing this blog, I’ve managed to post at least one or two blogs each week. The last two weeks have broken that habit- I missed posting for an entire week. I have some great excuses, of course. I’ve played a dozen shows with a handful of artists, and Sarah and I bought our first home. Between practicing, traveling and moving, it’s been insane around here.
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Musicians tend to have their careers go in cyclical patterns of extreme busy-ness, followed by periods of down time. Here are 5 ways I try to even out the cycle and ahead of the curve:
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I got this email from a reader this week:
As a fellow keyboard player who has a three keyboard rig for home church and concerts on the road I am curious how if at all you incorporate expression pedals into your setup? I have a curious idea to consider, instead of a mod wheel for shimmer effect, etc. to perhaps instead use an expression pedal for this control and free both hands for the keys. Of course I would run this through Mainstage and assign the pedals accordingly. Any thoughts?
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I was heading home from a short tour this last weekend when one of the guys on the tour bus asked what I thought about Mainstage’s new Alchemy synth. Did I like it? What did I think the strengths were?
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