Thanks RW, a rack unit with 2 controllers is certainly something I've been considering, but in the end I get this nervous feeling in my gut about playing with a rig like that. Mostly its because I've really never used midi before and am nervous about having realtime control over my rig in gig situations. Even with one of the good controllers you mentioned, I'm sure I'd get easily tripped up.

Theres something about having everything layed out in front of me on a board that makes me feel more comfortable. I'm sure I'd get over this with time and experience using a rack module but for now I need to be able to look down at the display screen on my board, know what sound I've got cued, and play! To tell you the truth, I'm already nervous about trying to run just a few sounds (organs) to a controller from one main 88 key synth. I know...I need to get hip to the technology here! Thanks for your thoughts though.

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