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Electric piano into passive board with active monitors question

Is it possible you will need some sort of pre-amp to boost the signal from the keyboard to the mixer?

usually digital instruments provide either line-level signal via TRS or instrument-level via TS.
I have a Roland electronic percussion that appeared to be the latter.

no need for a preamp in that case, frankly, but if you dig the sound, it's also okay. but a DI would be enough, the mixer likely will expect a matching level on a mic input (unless explicitly switched to line level).