As a result of a few people mentioning that it seems like the piano is tucked really far away from the rest of the band, I shifted the keyboard station closer to the drums. In doing so, I tucked away one of the music stands in storage and disconnected the ME-1 on that stand. The white ethernet cable for this station is to the right (stage-right) of the dSnake along with both of the channel inputs for that station. I figured it would look nicer if we don’t have someone filling that spot on a given Sunday to wrap it up and make it less cluttered.

The last time we had this station connected it was for Kenny’s instruments.

Keyboard Changes

Over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly transitioning from the Akai Advance 61 Keyboard to the Yamaha CP33. As of yesterday, I was able to completely remove the Akai from the rig along with the headaches that accompanied it. It’s just not live-play-friendly. I’ve shifted from using VIP3.0 as the VST Plug-in manager for keyboard sounds to MainStage. While MainStage will provide the layers of sounds, Ableton Live is still our primary engine for our clock and backing tracks.