I received this email from a reader this week:

Hi Eric,

I'm trying to determine what kind of monitors I should use with my MacBook Pro and MainStage. Do I need powered monitors? I have an apogee quartet and a UAD Apollo twin to choose from for interfaces. 

Thanks! 

Patrick

Although it’s an older keyboard at this point, Novation’s Remote Series midi controllers has a bunch of attractive features for MainStage. Here’s how it stacks up: 

MOTU’s MicroBook looks to be the perfect audio interface- it’s small, ruggedly built, with lots of amazing in and outs. Here’s how it stacks up: