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Personally, I’ve always seen Apple’s MainStage 3 as a back-pocket kind of tool.
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Keep reading this Mainstage 3 tutorial to find out everything you need to know about using Mainstage 3 and also how to use mainstage 3 live! Tools like these can help you take your first step towards your music career.
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However, for the past few years Apple had their own performance software available and with the advent of a new and improved Logic Pro X, they released MainStage 3 for all your live performance and recording needs. When talking about Mainstage 3 vs Ableton Live, m ore often than not, Ableton tends to be the market leader here. You may be wondering, whats the deal with Mainstage 3 vs Ableton Live? Well, lets talk about it. Musicians can now loop, use samples, add effects, trigger backing tracks and utilise a host of new sounds via MIDI to recreate the huge timbre of modern albums (for inspiration on what’s possible – check out some of Imogen Heap’s live shows). Thank you everyone for any help you can provide.Conquering MainStage 3: The Fool-Proof Guide & iPad TutorialĬomputers have revolutionised many elements of the music industry, including live rig performance. If anyone has any suggestions, I'll try them tonight when I get home from work (the office frowns upon me bringing my whole setup here and playing with my toys all day ) My HOPE is that's it's #2 and that someone here knows what I missed.
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The way I see it, there's a few possibilities:ġ) MainStage only supports one external instrument channel strip in a patch at a time.Ģ) I've missed some setting in MainStage that I need to allow for multiple external instruments to work properlyĤ) I somehow have the iConnectMIDI4+ configured incorrectlyįor #1, the wording on this page kind of implies that's the case: Both of them work fine individually, but if I try to send MIDI events to both at the same time, only one of them gets MIDI. I can layer one of them with software instruments just fine, but as soon as I try to include 2 software instruments in one MainStage patch, only one of them plays. I say those two specifically because that's where the problem is with MainStage. One of the things I'd really like to be able to do is layer the sounds with the VL70M and XV2020.

so I don't have to carry it (I'll post some pictures in the Gig Rigs area in the future )Īlso, an M-Audio Axiom 49 for other stuff like playing strings in the background or hammering on drum pads. Samson Airline 77 for wireless mic for my tenor sax (hooked to the iConnectAUDIO4+ for effects in MainStageĪll of this is in a nice SKB 4U rack with wheels. iConnectivity iConnectAUDIO4+ for audio i/o to the macmini and MainStage iConnectivity iConnectMIDI4+ for all midi connections XV2020 w/patchman soundbanks (also configured to accept midi on channel 1) Turbo VL70-m (configured to accept MIDI on channel 1) Midi Jet wireless midi to connect my EWI to the system Bernzilla's Instant EWI for MainStage installed Patchman patches for the ES2 in MainStage
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Mac Mini (16GB ram, 2x500GB HD, i7 4 core processor) running MainStage 3 This is probably the wrong forum for this question (it should probably be a mainstage forum somewhere), but this is the only place I can think of that might have someone that really understands this particular use case. except for one annoyance that I hope someone can help with. After trying many different setups, I think I've finally got my ultimate gig rig ready to go.
