MainStage Tutorial: Make a Compressed Worship Piano

Instead of buying more piano presets, learn how to create a compressed piano effect yourself in MainStage!

Top 10 Tutorials for MainStage and Ableton: A Recap

We’ve put together our most popular MainStage and Ableton tutorials to help pass time!

New Courses- Sound Design Tips with Ryan & Playing Worship Keys with Joy

These will both be a 10 day series where you'll receive a new video every day with really practical tips that will take your sounds and playing to the next level.

MainStage Mastery Is Now Free

We've decided that effective immediately our in-depth MainStage Mastery Course will be 100% free to anyone for the foreseeable future. The course includes over 6.5 hours of video lessons along with tons of downloads and worksheets. https://courses.sundaysounds.com/courses/mainstage-mastery/lectures/2745591

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Worship Keys Tutorial - What to play underneath pastor or during altar call

It can be easy to fall into a rut when you're playing underneath a message or prayer for quite a while. That's why it's really important to come up with a plan for somewhere you can go musically as needed!

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Troubleshoot MainStage Keys Rig Problems - What to do when MainStage Stops Working

In this video you'll learn what to prioritize first when you need to troubleshoot your MainStage rig, so things get back up and running as quickly as possible.

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Don't Let These Software Problems Stop You from Playing Worship Keys

Whether you're the keys player or a worship leader leading keys players, this conversation is important and can help start conversations amongst your own team.

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How to Control MainStage with Midi Cues in the Prime App by Loop Community

Our friends over at Loop just released a brand new feature to the Prime app that adds the ability to send out Midi Cues in sync with your backing tracks.

How to Balance Your Keys Patch Volumes in Any Software

Everybody wants to have killer patches that sound good in the room and feel good in your ears, right? We all want to avoid bleeding ears in the congregation and angry looks from your sound person on Sunday mornings!

Building Worship Keys Patches for Christmas Music

We produced a three part video series, designed to make it easy for you to identify popular "Christmas-style" keys sounds so you can find them in the software of your choice. This video series is going to be applicable to MainStage, Ableton, Omnisphere, and even hardware keyboard users!

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MacOS Catalina Update: Is It MainStage Safe?

Apple has come out with macOS Catalina and many are wondering, is it safe to upgrade?

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Worship Keys Players Feel Left Behind- A conversation w/ David and Ryan

Whether you're the keys player or a worship leader leading keys players, this conversation is important and can help start conversations amongst your own team.

Death Was Arrested - Live Worship Cover by Team Sunday Sounds

One of our favorite things to do as a team is to play some worship songs together. Last time the whole team was together in Boise we did just that during a live stream. Here is Death Was Arrested.

Gear Tutorial: How to factory reset your Korg nanoKontrol2

In this video tutorial we’re going to teach you how to factory reset your NK2!

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MainStage Tutorial - Synchronize Korg nanoKontrol2 Lights

In this video tutorial we’re going to teach you how to get even more functionality from your NK2!

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MainStage Tutorial - Ultimate Guide to MainStage's Factory Preset Library

In this video, we'll help you make sure you know how to access all the amazing sounds that are a part of this software.

Free Course: "Getting Great Guitar Tone in MainStage"

If you're a guitarist using MainStage you've gotta check out this course.

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MainStage Metronome Tutorial: Create a Tempo Knob

Hey friends, in this video you'll learn

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Keys Tutorial: How to Play Worship Keys in a Crowded Band

Hey friends, in this video you'll learn how to play keys in a way that makes an impact for the better, even in a crowded worship band.

MainStage Tutorial: How to Avoid Reassigning Hardware Every Time You Play

Hey friends, in this video you'll learn how to save each of your midi configurations so you can play anywhere you'd like and be ready to go in under 10 seconds.

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