This is what I do for a living. I lead worship with a guitarist and a Korg Pa1xPro. I have been very pleased with the Korg and have used it exclusively in worship for the last 3-4 years. I was running it midi'd to a Yammie DGX-500 for 88 keys and better piano sound. About 5 months ago I biult a tower based computer from scratch for nothing but music functionality and am running Ableton Live software on it. This software allows you to import an mp3, wav, or midi file then assign marker points to trigger from the computer keyboard.

You could assign say, verse to key 1, chorus to key 2, bridge to key 3, etc. All you do then is press the right key on the keyboard within the last measure of the current section and it auytomatically cues and fires that section. You're not stuck to the form of the song.

You also might want to check out www.interactiveworshiplive.com

They offer pre-recorded wav files of many popular worship songs. Each song has a wav file for every track, bass, drums, loop, guitars, vocals, brass, etc. You can then decide what to mute for a particular service and essentially "fill in" extra parts.

What I did was took one of the files and mixed all the parts down to a single mp3 file so that it loads super quick, becuase I'll always have the same musician and set up for now.

Hope all this helps. If you need further advice or ideas to share, give me a call. I've been in worship ministry over 20 years, played piano, 35 years, taught private lessons over 25 years and am working on my second music degree.

Give me a call if you want, 620-660-1899.

Jeff

Destiny Ministries
LionsGate Music School