Radial SW8 on Tour with Billy Joel

For 21 years, Rosenthal has performed with Billy Joel as keyboardist, adding "musical director" to his title along the way. A longtime Radial user, the Rosenthal says the Radial SW8 figures prominently in his equipment plan. "I've been using SW8s for quite some time, but most recently in the new generation of my keyboard rig that I'm using on this tour," he says.

"Everything is Mainstage based, I'm streaming my sounds and it all lives on solid state drives. It's really great but if something does go wrong, it takes time to restart the computer and reload everything and I can't take that chance during a live show. I am actually running two Mainstage systems simultaneously in real time and I have my SW8 controlling all of the outputs so if one happens to glitch I can switch to the other one instantly from the stage using the JR2 remote and I can keep playing away while the first computer gets restarted.

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