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

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Sjaak <tcplugin@scarlet.be> wrote:

>> 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?


MainStage doesn't forward any midi input to plug-ins on a bus. That's
why I let my Mobius AU, that lives on a bus, fetch all its external
MIDI control data directly from the global MIDI In port (rather than
through MS's graphic screen control icon objects).

I had bad crashes of MS when running VST plug-ins inside the AU
plug-in, but I have not had time to check if this was due only to
Bidule AU or in some way related to the fact that I send out MIDI
Clock into an OS X IAC Bus that MainStage used as its sync signal for
slave syncing (BTW this works like a charm now with the Mobius AU as
master sync device)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com