Most of us have only got to arms and two hands.

So, ultimately, you're gonna need to have *something* playing some of your music in the background while your keyboard player restricts himself to playing no more than one part at any time.

Purists like Uncle Dave (for whom I have every respect) will probably insist on going down the MIDI route and having some kind of sequencer triggering all the other synths and keyboards. This certainly appears to be the "proper" thing to do.

However, in my opinion, those types of solutions are messy, inefficient, unreliable and outdated. Messy because you're gonna have a spaghetti junction of MIDI cables all over the place. Inefficient becuase it's gonna take you ages to set all of this stuff up. Unreliable because when you've got about 5 different synths and keyboards (most of them being old, vintage models) all talking to each other (along piles of MIDI cable), then there is always going to be a massive avenue for something in the chain to cause problems. And lastly, I think the approach is outdated because today's technology offers much more practical solutions.

For live gigs I would recommend a laptop and a simple midi control keyboard.

[This message has been edited by Equalizer (edited 01-10-2004).]