Next year's musical is The Music Man!
The percussion part is snare-drum-happy, but who am I to complain? :-)
There's timpani to be played, so I'll need my trusty Alesis MIDI drum controller once again.
In the past, I set up my MIDI keyboard in the normal way, but that takes up way too much space in the "pit". Since I don't have the cash to
purchase a smaller MIDI source, I came up with a discrete way of stowing the keyboard to minimize its footprint. Positioning the device keys-down allows me easy access to the A/C power, MIDI, and audio outputs. And it's a good thing I kept the white styrofoam inserts.Who knows, I may even be able to employ the Alesis as a second MIDI snare part on Seventy-Six Trombones! Beats having to locate a real parade snare drum.
1 comment:
thanks for inspiring me to pursue this - i play in a lot of shows and i always miss being able to have the timps because you could never fit a pair/set in the size of orchestra pits that i play in. i have a roland TD-3 so i'm going to try hooking (some of) that up to my Kurzweil for the timp sounds, but i may look at getting an SPD-30 or something to save space. i'm amazed more people aren't discussing this online, must be a really common issue, but i guess a lot of people just leave the timps out altogether :( so thanks for your hints and tips :)
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