Dpoirier
Fractal Fanatic
Our long-time friend and bandmate keyboard player has moved on to other things, and we find ourselves without a keyboardist and with a repertoire full of keyboard-heavy classic rock.
After a few weeks posting ads locally, no bites, no luck. We're adding some material without keys, and trying to adapt a few songs that can manage without keys, but we miss our usual sound and richness.
We're now considering midi tracks, but I worry about a few things:
- Equipment breakdown just before a show
- Spontaneity replaced by rigid lock-tempo delivery
- ... and I suppose we *all* need to have the click track in our monitoring, otherwise we'll drift out of time and the keys parts will come in at the correct time while we are no longer spot-on
Anyone have experience with this? Any solutions to the above? Any other big issues I haven't thought of? Also, any cheap (of free?) resources for getting good keys tracks for classics like Boston, Pink Floyd, Journey, Toto, Styx, Honeymoon Suite, etc.?
Thanks...
After a few weeks posting ads locally, no bites, no luck. We're adding some material without keys, and trying to adapt a few songs that can manage without keys, but we miss our usual sound and richness.
We're now considering midi tracks, but I worry about a few things:
- Equipment breakdown just before a show
- Spontaneity replaced by rigid lock-tempo delivery
- ... and I suppose we *all* need to have the click track in our monitoring, otherwise we'll drift out of time and the keys parts will come in at the correct time while we are no longer spot-on
Anyone have experience with this? Any solutions to the above? Any other big issues I haven't thought of? Also, any cheap (of free?) resources for getting good keys tracks for classics like Boston, Pink Floyd, Journey, Toto, Styx, Honeymoon Suite, etc.?
Thanks...