
As we continue our look at using iOS devices in worship, today I want to discuss a way I’ve started using my iPhone along side our worship time at Madoc Baptist.
I have to give credit where credit is due, because I got this idea from Rob Rash and a post he wrote back in August called “Creating Ambience with an MP3 Player”
Something I’ve always liked in bigger worship bands, is the use of synths. While having a piano or keyboard player, a lot of them also have someone on synths, creating some really cool sounds. One of my keyboard players bought herself a microkorg a while back, but hasn’t brought it out.. as she doesn’t feel confident with it, even though shes a fantastic player. Then one day, I was reading through my Feed Reader, and I found the post by Rob, about creating the same ambience I wanted my keyboard player to create, but by using an MP3 player.
Rob pointed me to Karl Verkade who is an amazing guitarist, who creates ambient pads, and he even gives them away for free to churches!
The intent of these pads (at least for me) is to cut down on dead space in between songs. I’ve had times when for one reason or another, there was just too much dead space in between a song.. either a guitar went way out of tune and needed fixing, or a piano was intended to start the song, and piano player forgot. There are a number of things that can cause dead space between songs. The pads also create some great sounds to have during a song if you want to just play it through the whole song. Continue Reading…






