I am leading worship at a small church where we have a limited number of instrumentalists and sometimes all of them cannot particpate. I have several questions about what might work best for my set-up. Here are some of the details:

1. I want to have midi or audio tracks which can be brought in or muted seperately. Let's say the person on bass cannot be there for a Sunday. I would like to be able to bring the track up for just bass. There will be other times when it will just be me with guitar and the pianist or myself and the drummer. I would like to add in instruments as needed.

2 I have several choices. I have a laptop and have purchsed Cakewalks V-20. Once I create the tracks I believe I can control them by using the VS-20 as a controller for the volumes and just pull the sliders up and down that are needed.

3. I have wondered about just putting everything in audio and just using one of the smaller digital recorder/mixers to control things.

4. I have been looking at the Roland Mobile Sound canvas but cannot get a solid handle on A. Whether it would add anyting flexibility wise to the solution. B. What types of sounds does it really have. I have been comparing it as best as possible on line to the Ketron. It appears from my limited availability to demonstrations that the Ketron is a little stronger in acoustic sounds where the Roland has more lush piano's and synth sounds. I really wish there were a standard soundfile that companies would use to demonstrate. There is not any chance someone could provide and MP3 of both the Mobile Sound Canvas and the Ketron performing the same song for me to get a better idea is there? I do mostly Southern Gospel and Praise and Worship stuff so it is very Guitar, Bass and Keyboard focused.

Anyway I thought I would just put this out here as I know some of you have some pretty deep experience with this type of thing and could give me some things to think about.


Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

TerryB

Windows 10, Dell 8700 XPS i7, 12MB Ram.