I spent last night using the loopback plugin.
Trent Raznor uses it live and changes his patches with a footpedal, though i m not quite sure how it deals with latency? Perhaps on the latest MBPro's the processing is fast enough to crank up the buffer? Don't know. You can also route guitars and vocals into there for processing. But if you're playing keyboards in a band it s perfect. But I can maybe imagine this becoming a feature at some point though (the ability to line up a midi file next to the audio player plugin). I like to send midi parts to different synths and tweak them and also have program chanegs for my synth happening at the correct part of the track. The only thing that stops me from using it live with spatialize is that you can t play midi files alongside the audio stems. If you do have logic and already know these instruments then you have the advantage that you already know the plug ins and can get cracking with it. If you don t have logic then this gives you access to all of Logic's instruments for £20! Sculpture, Alchemy etc :-O And I do believe you can rewire mainstage into another sequencer. If you like to do effects sends from a track separate from the main stem and play synths live, but don t need control over the structure of your track liek ableton, then this is a great option. It's more for a a keyboard player than for live remix sequencing (ala ableton) but it depends how you perform. You can play audio files in there, even stems and set up fx sends etc. I had heard about it but it s not included with Logic anymore (it used to be) and is a seperate purchase.
#APPLE MAINSTAGE ABLETON LIVE PRO#
It s like logic pro in a convenient performance ready package for only about £20.
#APPLE MAINSTAGE ABLETON LIVE SOFTWARE#
(by the way, if anyone knows of a different software that does what I want to do easier, please tell me.Just recently discovered this.
It's really close, but the sloppy implementation of a lot of things have made me decide to only use Ableton instead. Who knows, maybe Mainstage 2.2 (or probably rather 2.5 or 3) will do exactly what I want. I just wish one of these two programs could implement some of these changes, and it would really make things sooo much easier for bands in general to implement computers into their live shows. Another thing that is ridiculous is that it can't accept tempo changes. While it's layout is completely customizable, nothing else is, from click to global quantization to complete lack of support for midi. You cannot choose count-in length (which effectively renders it COMPLETELY useless, it's only 4 beats pre-roll, and to give heads up for the other musicians (especially those who are not on click) is impossible). Now to the problems: The sync is terrible. Also Playback offers an easy way of playing backing tracks. Mainstage is quite terrible, but it does just that: you can choose between songs easily during a set, and only the vst's and/or plugins that you need for that song will be activated. This is the main reason why I started having a look at Mainstage 2. automatically selected when you go to the next track. It's ridiculous that it doesn't have sub-live sets.So that you can put loads of song patches into each set, with different settings, eq's, instruments etc. And I've come to the solution that none of them have the features that I would have wished for.Ībleton is great for a lot of things, it's stable and fast, but when it comes to accommodating for band live use, I feel it's not optimal. I've recently had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with both Ableton and Mainstage2.
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