Guitarist Needs Basic Midi Sequencing Help Please!

[onager]

Hopefully someone can give me some help. I ill try to keep this short yet give you all the info answer my question. I am considering adding sequencing to my live performance primarily for some keyboard parts. I have the following equipment:
pc (with jazz, quartz audio-master freeware)
m-audio uno midi usb interface
Roland Juno-d
Roland cr-1000 digital drummer
My thought was sequencer plays keyboard which I feed to my P.A. system and at the same time the sequencer could play click track to cr-1000 to feed to in-ear monitor to keep time? But.. I get my click track coming from both Juno-d and cr-1000. Software, hardware, or Guitarist problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated

[spike]

A friend of mine plays guitar with midi or mp3 files and don't use a click track, he just busk's along with the music ant taps his feet in time.....

I don't play guitar (I'm a keyboard fanatic) but I don't use a click track either.

When I play with the band (trio - keyboard - rhythm and lead - drummer), the drummer needs to know where to come in, so we normally have a four beat intro (click) and he drummer just gets on with it..... This works fine with our set up....

Hope some of that will help.

[onager]

Thanks Spike UK for the reply! I think that would work great for a song that has the part I am sequencing all the way through the song. I would be leary of doing it with (for example) All Right Now by Free. I would be using the midi to play the piano part during the guitar solo 2 minutes in to the song. Murphy's law says: If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. I've never seen Murphy, but I think he hangs out at the same places I do.
Thanks again for the input. I would still be interested in being capable of using the click track. And if anybody out there can recommend a good book aimed at the live performance end of the use of midi, please let me know.
Thanks!
Onager

[midimart]

Hi Onager.

First of all welcome to the forum.

A young friend of mine plays guitar with a click track. The only way he could do it without buying expensive gear was like this....

He would set all his midi Chanel's to the left (pan to the left) and set his click track to the right (pan right), on his amp he would connect the speakers to the left output and his ear piece to the right Chanel.

his speaker output was in mono yes but who actually listens to the arrangement. As long as it has a beat and one can tap their foot to it then when the audience gets half liqueured - who actually cares.....

Can you give this Murphy a kick up the behind for me as he raises his ugly head with me too......

I must point out (This Murphy we are talking about) is NOT the Murphy on the forum.

[onager]

Thanks for the input Glenn. I was saving that for my last resort. I had done this 20 years ago in an analog format. I was in a 3 piece band and some songs just plain need rhythm guitar. So I used my drum machine to record the proper tempo high hat beats on the left channel of a standard cassette and the rhythm guitar on the right. Fed the appropriate signals where needed and voila.
I think I know the answer to my question, maybe you or someone else can validate it. I think I need a second midi interface. I was thinking of getting one with audio capabilities anyway so I could take advantage of the audio tracks in the sequencing program to add some needed backing vocals. I see that the quartz audio master shareware program only has 16 midi channels unless you purchase the upgrade and that they are labled a1-a16. Assuming the full version would name the next 16, b1-b16. etc, etc. The click track output then could be output through midi device a and the midi for the keyboard through device b ??
It makes sense in my head, but I know the real world don't always agree.

Onager