Re: Live 8 Beta Looper and Mainstage together - first impressions

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

Well, Sjaak, that's my point - i *need* those clock outs! why
Mainstage can't have a simple control panel to tell it which midi
inputs to ignore, like Live has, is just bad interface design and lazy
programming (in fact, Live has it all over Logic in terms of interface
design, but that's a whole nother story).

I'm starting to get happy with the new setup - the Live looper is
simple but effective - my biggest complaint so far: it's hard to
reset. once you've made a loop, Live will start playing. you can't
make a new, unsynced loop (to which Live should then sync) wo clicking
to stop live and then clicking to clear the loop. Of course, I intend
to program a single pedal to do both.

But there's a hidden catch - if i were, for instance, recording that
output into Live's arrangement view, well... uh-oh, end of recording.

Which means that maybe i'll end up throwing a bidule into Live's
Master track to do the recording regardless of what Live is doing.
that would probably work.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Sjaak <tcplugin@scarlet.be> wrote:
>> Warren Sirota wrote:
>> I've been having a lot of trouble getting either Mobius or
>> SooperLooper AUs to work properly within Mainstage. Mainstage
>> seems to get flummoxed easily by too many midi streams
>> floating around (esp once i then open MAX).
>
> It took me a while to figure out a stable Mainstage setup. I've tested 
>multiple setups using Mainstage as master, or slave, in combination with 
>3rd party AU plugins such as Augustus and Bidule and a LP1. For example, 
>I had Mainstage synced to an external clock and I had Augustus Loop 
>running on a Mainstage bus. Mainstage or Augustus usually crashed, and I 
>initially thought that it had to do with using 3rd party AU plugin's on a 
>bus (some Logic forums had reported similar issues). But the solution was 
>to switch off the "send midi clock" preference in Augustus. I have done a 
>similar test with my LP1:
> 1) create a new loop
> 2) LP1 starts sending midi clock
> 3) within a minute, Mainstage crashed as soon as it detected multiple 
>midi clocks (Augustus in this case)
>
> But now I know how to fix it, Mainstage has been very stable. I like the 
>concept of it, and it's pretty straightforward to use. I'm currently 
>working on creating new sounds and the integration of Bidule and 
>Mainstage; I have it up and running, and I'm trying to create a kind of 
>semi-random Soundscape/Ambient sounds with it. I must say that it's 
>pretty cool to see Bidule as AU plugin on a Mainstage bus but I'm not 
>sure if this is the way to go. For example, I don't know if you can still 
>control a Bidule audio switcher using program changes. Does Mainstage 
>forward PC's to plugins? Any suggestions are welcome :)
>
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