3rddawn

On the one hand I'm surprised more manufacturers haven't incorporated motorised faders, but then again, who wants the potential of lots more mechanical things that could go wrong ... so all credit to Behringer for that - it is a unique selling point. Hope you get your issues sorted out and get it working the way you want to. Cheers!

Yes I was in midi mode to (say no advantage to Mackie control mode). I was successful with MS keeping the mappings of faders 1-8 correct within patches, it was just that master volume issue for me. I never had a problem like the one you describe, where it forgets the mappings completely. In midi mode I would map the faders the standard way - in MS Layout mode, highlight a fader on screen, either pick it manually or click Assign, move the fader a few times, click Assign to stop learn mode, repeat for all necessary faders. I also disabled the "send a CC on touch" feature on the Motor 61 itself - I didn't need it to do anything when I first pressed the fader, it was all about the movement for me. More recently I've put a bus between the different patch outputs and the main output - perhaps I could get Fader 9 to work with that aux's volume control at Concert level instead of the main Output volume, but to be honest, I've now abandoned the Motor 61 altogether. I just got to the point where I thought every other keyboard player with faders/sliders that aren't motorised can manage to sort themselves out when moving from patch to patch during a gig, I'm sure I can get used to having to pre-move them myself (in pickup mode). Coupled with the thought that if my Motor 61 stopped working, it would be a pain to source another one (and not cheap), I've switched back to a NanoKontrol and am using a used Q88 keyboard which is so generic that if it breaks, I can source something similar very quickly. But thanks for confirming that it wasn't just me!

My main keyboard has a sustain pedal attached and works fine with sounds played with that keyboard. I also have a second keyboard which I use for different sounds (on different channel strips with the midi input assigned to that second keyboard). Are there any ways of getting the sounds I play on the second keyboard to respond to the sustain pedal from the main keyboard? Both keyboards are sending midi notes on channel 1. The patches are aliases in order to save memory as they are used in different combinations elsewhere in my concert. The only way I can currently achieve this is by assigning the channel strip to multitimbral input, but that causes MS to crash if I move the patch up or down in the set or across sets. So I'm trying to find alternative ways that don't need me to use multitimbral assignment. Thanks for your help.

Thanks - yes I'm all set up to use Chord then Arp then Chord again to play the exact sequence, it's just something to trigger it off that I need, so will look into scripter I don't have a degree in comp sci but I have been an information analyst, so I'm used to programming languages (SQL mainly), VB, VBA, so should be able to find my way through to a solution ... if I can find the time!

Thanks for the tips - I'll give it a shot

Thanks. Any pointers to quickly learn scripter?

Hi I play guitar on a song but at a certain point I want to kick off a chord on my keyboard without having to play it by hand. I have an iRig Blueboard in CC mode (for other patch needs), and wonder if I can trigger a note from a cc message? Any ideas? Thanks 3rddawn

Hi all, Long shot as I don't expect many Mainstage users also have a Behringer Motor 49 or 61 but it could be this problem extends to other similar devices. I can map the first 8 motorised faders on the Motor 61 to various things like software instrument volumes with no problem, and have Mainstage send the CC information back to the faders on program change, so that they jump to the saved values. However, if I try doing the same thing with the Master Fader mapping it to either the Master Volume or the Output 1-2 Volume at the concert level, it doesn't move the fader to 0db (where the Output 1-2 and Master volumes are. It's as if it isn't sending the Master Volume or Output 1-2 volume information back to the keyboard, even though I've specified for it to do so in the concert level mapping. Has anyone experienced this or something similar and are there any suggestions for either solving it or a workaround? Am I on the right lines, in thinking that perhaps the overall volume information isn't sent back to the keyboard like other mapped faders are? Thanks for your help.

Thanks. Have put it in feedback form to Apple. Disappointing ... it's a great instrument otherwise!

Hi, can I check if anyone else has this problem: Mellotron instrument, select Flutes (not Flute). Play some keys, I hear two octaves playing on all notes. If I press the bypass button on the EXS24 instrument in the channel strip and press it again to reactivate it, it now plays just one note properly. I'm using this in MainStage 3.3, I haven't got Logic but assume it should be the same behavior. Thanks 3rddawn

Thanks for the suggestion Michael. I was hoping to avoid being forced to upgrade ... would have to go El Cap on OS in order to get Mainstage with Alchemy ... which would then force me to buy a new interface as well etc.

Update: It's not just ESX24 - it's happening using an ES2 instrument - on that if I click the compare button, it somehow resets it and behaves again for a while. Any others experienced this, and is there a way round it?

Liverpool Bass in ESX24 instrument, standard instrument picked from the library. Have put a Midi FX Arp in and set it to just a simple couple of notes. After playing for a few minutes, the sound itself stops being generated by the ESX24 instrument. If I go into ESX24 and pick another bass, it works fine. If I reselect Liverpool Bass, the sound does not start being generated again. Has anyone had this happen? Cheers

Apologies if this topic is "out there" and I haven't found help on it already ... it could be I've just been searching for the wrong words or phrases. Please set me straight if that's the case. I want to be able to press a note on my keyboard and it trigger the playing of a complex but short sequence of notes so I don't have to play them live myself with inherent problems of getting timing wrong, fudging a note, having the mental capacity to do this as well as about 3 other things at once etc. I'm not a master at some of elements within Mainstage like Ultrabeat, the midi arpeggiator, the chord trigger etc. They all seem to be elements of what I need but I can't see how any of them will do the whole lot. Ultrabeat triggers samples, not midi notes that would just play the sound in the channel strip, chord trigger will create a chord from a note played, but only the notes you define, arpeggiator doesn't seem to be able to program a specific sequence that isn't one of the preset variations built in, etc. From research so far, it looks like the Scripter could do it, but I'd have to learn how to programme in Java! Is it possible to do what I want and if so, how, is it already out there and I just didn't search for the right terms, or is this just impossible without purchasing a 3rd party plug in, and if so, which one(s)? I'd prefer to do everything with the stock product if possible. Thanks for your help.

Hi I'm trying to create a sound that has a Hammond with rotary speaker effect that when they key triggers it starts on the slow setting by default, but after a predefined delay it flips to the fast setting without me having to do it manually or assign it to a controller and still press something to make it change. Does anyone know how this might be done? Thanks 3rddawn