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  1. I have a question.... Are you doing your volume pedal mapping at the patch level or the concert level? If I understand the problem correctly, three layers becoming independent of the main master volume pedal in the patch, the fix would be to establish the layer volume relationships within the patch and then save. Then map the volume pedal at the concert level. Technically then, you should be able to control the patch layer relationships with one pedal, and eliminate the duplicate pedals you've had to add in the layout.
  2. Repeat crashes can are usually corrupted plists. Until you delete them the app will hang in unusual ways. Go to User>Library>Preferences and delete com.apple.mainstage.plist MainStage will now create a fresh one. If you hang again look carefully at the 'report to apple' crash log. If it's a third party plug it will show up as a crashed thread. bb
  3. Hi, You have to set up the UB at the concert level, not the Set or Patch levels. Create a screen control button in Layout, go to Edit mode, select the newly created UB channel strip and map it to UB>Start Stop Sequence. Now your click track will play whatever tempos you have set for the concert and patch levels without glitching, as long as your button is in the 'on' state. Hope this helps
  4. Wow! Nice find. I had always done it via hardware to simulate and it was a success. Didn't know how to duplicate your issue. Thanks for coming back on and tying this one up!
  5. Live 8 has the sickest arpeggiator of them all....;¬)
  6. Defer is just that. You can do a patch change while playing, but MS waits, or defers until the current patch is done sounding. More specifically, in performance mode, play the patch with defer check box selected. While playing, instigate a patch change with a hardware button or qwerty keyboard arrow up/down. The moment that you lift all of your fingers on the current patch, MS automatically changes to the new patch. Hope this helps.....
  7. It probably goes dead when you cross over a set in the patch list, since sets have no sound. Easy to fix.....In the Layout mode of your concert, drag one button to the workspace from the panel controls. Map it to a button on your keyboard making sure to press it 3 times slowly. Command 2 gets you to edit mode. There at the concert level, select the button just added enabling the blue halo. On the unmapped tab of the screen control inspector select Ultrabeat > Sequencer Start/Stop. No you have mapped the UB pattern playback at the concert level and set's will not stop playback. Hope this helps
  8. As cool as MainStage is it is really optimized for traditional guitar and keyboard sounds. For that it's one of the best there is. The DJ workflow is another animal and it's best served with Ableton Live 8. If you absolutely needed a Logic/MS patch in your set you could rewire Live into MainStage. That is if you absolutely have to make your life more stressful. This link has some free preview vids on Live 8 workflow....MainStage too.... http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorials/
  9. Actually the MainStage concert templates are the best model for efficient cpu usage. Trust me I know this as a fact. Take one of these concerts and import your own patches. Delete unneeded patches. You'll notice that the factory templates DON'T use Delay Designer or Space Designer but the little brother versions of those piggy plugs. They also use effects busses rather than adding separate verbs to the instrument channel strip. The biggest RAM suck in MainStage is the EXS sampler since that plays from RAM of course. The good news in MS 2 is that the EXS now has 'options/Virtual Memory settings available. Just like in Logic. So you could streamline your usage within the instrument to some degree. Samples do not double load in MS unless of course there are different samples in the instruments. In general it's best to load a EVP88 rather than a sampled version of the same thing or an ES1 rather than an ES2 etc. Sculpture is very cpu intensive. Also, under prefs / audio tab there is an I/O safety buffer check box. This in effect scans the system a second time to keep things 'safe' from pops but it takes RAM ! Uncheck it. Also in the same window is "silence previous patch". This should be set as low as possible. I don't know for sure but holding a 60 second hang time between patches seems a RAM suck to me as well. Avoid the Adaptive Limiter or any look ahead limiting plugs. No Phase Liner or Match EQ. Lastly, it seems a minor thing but scoop all your desktop icons and files into one folder before you play. Put your desktop picture to a factory color rather than using your own big tiff or jpeg files. Hide the dock. If you just can't at least turn off magnification and genie effect. They take RAM. Turn spotlight off in System Prefs. Turn off Airport, turn off software update. You can double check all of this using the Activity Monitor. Hope this helps;-))
  10. Your problem has nothing to do with MS. Your problem is 100% M-Audio core audio drivers. I've had every type of audio failure related to their hardware, particularly when allowed to sleep or sit idle as you describe. Hot swapping one of their FW interfaces can even blow your firewire bus. It says so in their own literature. You can still use the MIDI of course but if you are just running stereo out, the bomb proof way to success on your gig is to bail on the audio outputs of your interface, buy a male mini to male XLR Y cord, plug it into your laptops headphone out and feed that directly to the DI's onstage. If MS still dumps the expression pedal simply remap the pedal at the concert level (in layout mode). I promise you this will work. As the gentlemen said, for live you can't skimp. I recommend RME first, Metric Halo second and no to any M-Audio and no Apogee Ensemble or Duet. I own apogee stuff, but it's too unstable for live. Hope this helps;-))
  11. I've been struggling with black screens, freezes and hard boots for some time and i solved it on my system. I thought it was Pro Tools 8 drivers. It isn't. For the record I have a relatively complex system which made troubleshooting hell. I use Logic 8, Live 8 and Pro Tools 8 all at the same time on 10.5.6. Not rewired or slaved but open all at once. I use soundflower between apps , for screen capture software iShowU. I output audio to Apogee symphony, Mbox Pro 2 and M-Audio Profire 610. I have a Edirol PCR-800, a PadKontrol and a MicroKontrol. Suspecting the Logic board, I swapped everything, drives, RAM, Graphics card and apogee symphony PCIE card, from my hanging black screen mac pro, into an identical Mac Pro. I had all of the same problems, black screens, freeze screens during recording, everything. It was the ATI x1900. I ditched it and Now I'm Running Smooth. Go to Apples website and read all the 1 star reviews. That card is still for sale! As part of my trouble shoot, I also upgraded the firmware on my Rosetta 800 for leopard, which was an arcane and difficult process in and of itself. At least this version of Maestro finally works as expected. Hope that helps! It took me 4 days to stop the suffering......
  12. True true....you might even want to do a full laptop back up on time machine during the bass solo. The only culprit here is Airport of course. I run my laptop into my studio mains + sub for iTunes etc. One day I wanted to check the low end for some Ableton sequences I was preparing and none of my songs would playback...not even out of the headphone jack. After sorting drivers I traced it to the Airport. The other day MainStage had MiDi and fader activity for mic input and instruments. Itunes played fine so it wasn't the driver. It was Airport. I turned it off and MainStage 're-aquired' my apogee hardware out-put without even relaunching the concert. All Good whens the pizza coming?
  13. Just thinking out loud here.....I don't see anyone talking about MainStage's relationship to iChat, Airport and Time Machine. These apps give MainStage fits and need to be turned off. I found out long ago that Live 7.10 drops the firewire audio out when Airport is on. MS has similar issues. Another problem would be too many files and folders on the desktop. Each one takes RAM just to exist. Also big tif files as desktop pictures should be avoided and you should try and have at least ten gigs free per 100 gigs of space. Lastly I'm curious if running disk warrior to optimize helps at all. Best Wishes
  14. Try updating the drivers on your Ensemble. I've had kernel panic while using mine.
  15. This is a massive topic. Gateing and heavy surgury on a drum track usually makes them worse. Most drum tracks are 'cloudy' and need offending freq's cut and the level raised accordingly. Always work on the drums in context, with all the other tracks up. Spending lots of time working on soloed drum tracks is of little value. Concentrate on how the drums sit with the track. One technique: Build the absolute best sound you can with just the overhead mic using level and subtle eq cuts. Once this is complete, then fill in your balance with the other mics. Good luck......
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