Guides
How-tos that join the dots between categories: what to buy, how it plugs together and what goes wrong.
Setup guide
The completely wire-free keyboard
How to put a keyboard anywhere on stage with no MIDI cable and no mains lead. A satellite board for a singer or guitarist, say, running on Bluetooth MIDI adaptors and a power bank that won't switch itself off.
MIDI AdaptersController KeyboardsKeyboard Stands
Software guide
MainStage and Gig Performer®: the basics
What a live host is, why you want one instead of a DAW on stage and how MainStage and Gig Performer® organise sounds into patches, sets and rackspaces.
Live HostsController KeyboardsMIDI Adapters
Setup guide
PA for solo artists and duos
What a solo act or a duo actually needs to be heard at a gig: getting backing tracks off a phone, how many mixer channels you need, column arrays against battery speakers, how big a PA for which room, and three shopping lists.
Portable PALive Hosts
Looking for the other sort of reading? Sleeve notes — writing about the records and the people who made them, the way the back of a sleeve used to.