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Re: Mobius in Mainstage Mishaps and Misses
So, I have solved the problems by using controller buttons exclusively and
not the Macbook keyboard. I also realized that I had the midi settings
set up so that both Mobius responded to the controller, and Mainstage also
sent the same midi messages to the controller a second time. So every
time i pressed "M" for example, it was like pressing it twice, so
basically cancelled itself out because of how I have multiply configured.
Anyways, everything is working great now and I love my new setup in
Mainstage - again.
Michael
3x09
On Oct 28, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Per Boysen wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Mainstage blocks the computer keyboard keys from being detected by the
> Mobius plugin. This is because Mainstage has its won key commands and
> it also has a virtual keyboard that is played by the computer keys
> when activated. I am a big fan of using key commands with Mobius but
> when I moved from Mobius standalone to using it as a plugin in
> Mainstage I had to adapt by moving some of my commands to a little
> MIDI button pad instead of tapping the computer keys.
>
> I also use Ableton Live as host for Mobius and in this environment the
> Mobius key commands work, given the Mobius plugin GUI widow is at
> front. This is tricky, you have to remember that if you use the mouse
> to adjust a mixier fader in Live Mobius is no more at front (Live is
> now) and key commands do not work. So you need to click inside the
> Mobius GUI window after having moused around in Live.
>
> When using Bidule as the host for Mobius key commands always work...
> for the simple reason that you never need to click or mouse anything
> in Bidule, it is just like a routing hub. But if you click inside the
> Bidule window Mobius key commands take a vacation until you click in
> the Mobius window again.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.perboysen.com
> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:55 AM, TripleOhNine <3x09@carlsonarts.com>
> wrote:
>> The looping fest in Santa Cruz was awesome, and I was honored to be
>> invited to do vocal looping.
>>
>> I performed for the first time with Mobius hosted in Mainstage at the
>> Y2K12 in Santa Cruz, with mixed results. I appreciated everyone's
>> positive comments on my set, and felt alright about it, but I am
>> somewhat of a perfectionist, so I was hoping to get some help here on a
>> couple problems that I had.
>>
>> Three main problems I experienced:
>>
>> I use a nanoKontroller to mix, mute, and pan directly to Mobius, but I
>> also like to use the keyboard keys sometimes for things like Record
>> ("r"), Multiply ("m"), Mute ("u"), etc. But, when I try to use the
>> keys on my MB Pro, they either didn't respond, or did something
>> completely different from what they do when I use Mobius as a
>> standalone with the nanoKontroller. It seems to be something to do
>> with using Mobius as a plug-in.
>>
>> Also, if, for example, I want to switch to loop two on track one by
>> pressing the down arrow on the MB keyboard, nothing happens. So, I was
>> forced to stick to the same loop in every track while using Mobius with
>> Mainstage. This meant that in any of my pieces where I used multiple
>> loops on the same track (usually never more than 4 loops), I had to use
>> Mobius as a standalone, as I have always done in the past, without
>> effects.
>>
>> Also, for some reason some of the other plugins didn't seem to work,
>> such as the Apple pedalboard plugin which I had intended to use vocally
>> for fuzz and delay effects, but this may have just been my own user
>> error.
>>
>> Do you have any insight for me on how to use Mobius as a plugin with
>> Mainstage, and still have the MB Pro's keyboard functionality
>> redundantly with the nanoKontroller's buttons, so I can use one or the
>> other as desired on the fly?
>>
>> Michael
>> 3x09
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