Apr 25

Apr 25 10 Beginner Tricks For Playing Organ in A Worship Band

So you’ve just purchased the Ultimate Organs pack and you’re ready to play organ for the first time with your worship team. What do you do? Here are 10 simple tricks to make you sound like a pro:

Apr 4
Apr 4 5 Ways to Get Out of the Guitarist's Sonic Space

Eric Barfield

Live Performance

Guitars and keyboards occupy the same sonic space in many worship sets, and it's important as a keyboardist to respect and work with the guitar player so that you don't clash sonically. Here are a few ways you can get your silence to mesh

Mar 31
Mar 31 Friday Freebies: Synthy Pad

Eric Barfield

Freebies

This week’s freebie patch is a synthy pad that will take you straight back to Yes, the 80’s, and some of the classic wavetable synths from that generation. If you’re a nostalgic person, you may find yourself tearing up a little at the memories that come flooding back.

Mar 28

Mar 28 MainStage 3.3 Released: New MIDI FX Routing, Multi-Layered AutoSampler

Eric Barfield

MainStage Reviews

After a long wait (we were holding our collective breaths) MainStage 3.3 is here, and it was worth the wait. There’s a slough of new amazing features, and some critical updates and fixes. Here’s our top 10 new breakthrough features in MainStage 3.3:

Mar 24

Mar 24 Friday Freebies: Somber Organ

Eric Barfield

Freebies

Why so serious? If you’re feeling in a mournful state but still want to play gospel-style organ, this is your jam. There’s just a few drawbars on this bad boy, but it has all the feel you’d ever need for a prayer meeting.

Mar 21

Mar 21 Ask Patch Foundry: Finding MainStage Patches In Logic Studio X

Eric Barfield

I received this email from a reader this week:

Do you know if it is possible to access user created Mainstage patches from Logic? When I'm in Logic and searching under my user channel strip, I can see some of the patches but they wont load because they require the ESX24. Do you have any idea how they can be brought into the Logic word? Converting, loading the ESX24? Etc?

Mar 17
Mar 17 Friday Freebies: Classic Lead Patch

Eric Barfield

Freebies

This week's free patch is a classic lead (think Stevie Wonder) and models itself after a legendary synth (Moo. . . , cough), and was inspired by the latest releases by Bruno Mars. If you can't get funky with this one, go home.

Mar 14

Mar 14 Ask Patch Foundry: Balancing MainStage/Hardware Levels

Eric Barfield

Live Performance

I received this email from a reader this week:

I bought a MOTU MicroBook based on this advice and it's a wonderful piece of equipment. Many thanks. I am still getting my head around things and I'd love to hear your thoughts on a couple of points.

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