When I mentioned to our worship leader that I was dissatisfied with the sounds my keyboard was capable of producing and was thinking about looking for a different one, her husband (our music director) told me about a system that runs on an iPad (obviously not Ableton or MainStage!) TBH, I've always been intimidated by the idea of using a midi (I barely understood how that could even work!) but I decided to give it a try because it seemed to be the more cost effective route for me. After using it for about 4 weeks, I have barely gotten my feet wet with learning how to tweak the patches and sounds, and while it was overwhelming at first, I'm much more comfortable with it now. In the end, I spent a little less than $1,500. It would have been a bit less, but I wanted to duplicate my church setup at home so I can practice whenever I want. I bought an inexpensive 61 key midi controller for home, which is good enough for me to select sounds for the upcoming setlist, plus 2 powered USB hubs, an audio interface for church, and a little 4 channel mixer for home so I can use headphones and hear the rehearsal track and my keyboard together. I also have a Korg nanoKontrol2 which I have not actually started using yet but plan to get it hooked up this week. So, although I probably could have purchased a new keyboard with this amount of money, in essence I now have 2 systems so I can practice without lugging my 88 key around or trying to find times to practice when somebody is at church to let me in to practice there. And as you mentioned, I only have to plug in my iPad on Wednesdays (practice) and Sunday mornings.

Melissa! I love to hear this!! Such a great approach. What app did you purchase for generating all your sounds?