Keyboards in Cover Bands - How do you do things?

[SoCal80s]

I'm curious since I've never used this sort of thing - is there any latency when triggering via a tablet? Are you pressing the button in time or is there some way of the software tracking your tempo and it starts it in time?

You need at least 2 channels, one with a click track and the other with the backing track(s) (unless it's just the intro, or a one-time special effect). You feed the click into the drummer's ears and the backing track to the PA mains. The drummer must play to the click and everyone else follows the drummer to keep it all together.

 

[Joeywhat]

You need at least 2 channels, one with a click track and the other with the backing track(s) (unless it's just the intro, or a one-time special effect). You feed the click into the drummer's ears and the backing track to the PA mains. The drummer must play to the click and everyone else follows the drummer to keep it all together.

Not bad. Seems easy enough to use, I've seen a lot of bands using them but never got a chance to see how they were actually used.

 

[Geddyfleaharris]

Not bad. Seems easy enough to use, I've seen a lot of bands using them but never got a chance to see how they were actually used.

YouTube is your friend. Look up a fellow named Scott Uhl. He has a lot of great videos for using backing tracks simply. He also shows how to get more in depth if that is what you want. Our band is just venturing into this area. I still believe most everything should be live but backing tracks here and there can fill in things nicely. Think the congas on Two Tickets to Paradise, not the band miming to the operatic part of Bohemian Rhapsody. That's my take anyways.