Howdy David,

First I have to say that I'm not answering your question directly - I don't use sound modules like you're describing above. The ones that I've seen still require some sort of controller (rather than just using the floppy), and are rather expensive (but sound excellent!). I'll be interested to hear what other folks use.

However, I do have a couple of methods that I use for similar functionality at church.

The first is to prepare and burn an audio copy to a CD-RW, and play that over our sound system. If you don't have a CD player already hooked up at church (or if the current CD player won't play CD-RWs), you can purchase a small one that will for about $30. I use Composer to create the song file, and soundfonts or Garritan Personal Orchestra to render the audio, so the results are quite nice. I use my Creative Wave Studio, or Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/) to record the WAV file. I have some effects (such as reverb) that I can add to give it a more live feel.

If your computer doesn't have soundfont or recording/editing capability, you can use SynthFont (www.synthfont.com) which has a "save to WAV, MP3 or OGG" option. You could actually even use soundfonts to render a file to MP3 or OGG, and then use a portable player (iPod, etc) to plug in. However, I've found that the WAV offers the best audio quality, and that's what I use. I might mention that with SynthFont, you can also use some really nice free VST effects (such as reverb) to add a nice sonic touch.

If you want to use the sounds from your keyboard, then you could (I think I remember someone else doing this) play the file from your keyboard, and record the audio output into your computer sound card's "line in" and use something like Audacity to record the file and add effects. Then burn to CD-RW per above. If you don't have a CD burner on your computer, you can also get one of these for about $35, and it comes with the software to burn CDs.

The other method you can use if you have a computer at church (we have one because we use PowerPoint in conjunction with a projector to show the words to songs overhead, or to do other audio/visual presentations) you can use either Composer or SynthFont to play the file in the background and just plug the sound card into your sound system. I've only done this a couple of times, before I had the capability of doing the first option above I very much like the fact that I know exactly what the audio is going to sound like beforehand, and all I need to adjust is the volume.

ttfn,
Sherry