I've been following this thread and a few comments-
The 1820M is for a desktop PC, are you actually packing up your complete system and hauling it down to the church? You obviously can do that but virtually everyone I've heard talking about live work uses a laptop, not the whole tower system.
I too have the 1820M and you mentioned asio. On my system anyway, EMU's asio is buggy but you only need it for live midi recording or playing nothing else. Playing back a song using the Conductor only requires MME not ASIO so I use that except when I'm playing my midi keyboard through the system live.
The Conductor is a great feature but in a live church situation, it's very difficult to try to change the arrangement of a song when you're working with singers or a pastor who's working up the congregation and trying to cue the "band" on the spot. The Conductor lets you hit a number key on the PC keyboard and jump to another part of the song or loop the place where you're at. It will jump based on several parameters that you have to know about in advance. It can jump immediately regardless of where in the bar the tune is. I've never used that one because it will completely mess up anybody else playing or singing along. It will jump at the next bar on the one beat but even that is too confusing. To me the best one is to have it jump at the next part marker and you can place a part marker anywhere you want. The place it jumps to is preset by you so you may have a shout chorus for example, preset it as song section 3 and jump there any time you want by hitting the 3 key before the next part marker. Works great with one major caveat. The other people playing or singing live have to know what you're doing and how Biab works in advance . The problem I've run into before is having a singer work the crowd and decide to cue me to take the tune out or suddenly cue the bridge but it's already gone past the part marker I had set up for that. That means I have to wait until the next part marker before I can make the jump and if the singer doesn't understand how that works, instant train wreck.
I think in a church situation you're better off rendering your finished arrangements to an audio file and simply play them back using whatever you want for playback be it a cd player or even an Ipod. Some have talked about using one of those inexpensive portable DVD players with a 7" screen because you can easily see your song list. Just plug it into the pa. Other people can still play and sing along on piano or whatever and with a little rehearsal get everybody on the same page. It won't take long for you to go back home and tweak an arrangement until it works the way you want it to.

Bob

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