So you suggest to purchase M3 MacBook Air, sound card, soft synths and a keyboard controller to replace a single keyboard?I'm absolutely not suggesting that there isn't a market for synthesizers to be used in a live context. I'm only questioning whether lame "workstation" keyboards are the way to go. Honestly, how hard is it to either build a stand yourself or buy one of the many, many commercially available keyboard stands that would allow you to place a MacBook Air, for instance, in front of your controller keyboard and then have the world of synth plugins and streaming software samplers at your fingertips?I agree with you that it's quite stupid to not release the montage vst for everyone to purchase, but labeling the hardware keyboard users a "diminishing market" is quite stupid as well.
Not only wedding and worship band players use those keyboards, every live music band from the smallest local act to Maroon5 will always have a need for a good keyboard on stage.
Get real mate.
Your setup would be so much more powerful and flexible. And given the insane battery life of an M3 MacBook Air, you wouldn't even need to plug it in to a power source. You could literally spend 10 hours at the venue programming sounds, adjusting your set list, comping background vocals, writing lyrics, emailing fans, etc. and still have battery life for days.
Hell, you could even use a crappy Windows laptop with a multi-touch touchscreen display and interact in real time with your softsynths if you were so inclined. Wouldn't this be infinitely superior to using a $3,500 Montage with its lo-res touch display? That's the silliest "professional" keyboard I can think of at the moment.
I would SO much rather have a nice 88-note weighted keyboard controller to use with Apple's $30 MainStage program or the similar live hosting environment in Presonus' Studio One Pro and then maybe a Sequential Trigon 6 or something similar for authentic analog tones than an over-priced ROMpler/FM/VA Montage.
This is just a failure of imagination and/or technical ignorance on the part of lazy gigging musicians to not up their game. As sacrilegious (and intentionally amusing as this sounds) I would honestly have to "accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior" to believe that a Montage is the best I could do as a gigging musician.
Ok, you clearly have 0 live performing experience.
Keep ranting on kvr.
Statistics: Posted by Bippo — Tue May 28, 2024 1:56 am