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  1. I use Logic on stage in a very elaborate fashion and have got a great way of managing my playlist, changing sounds, everything to make my gigs run smooth. Logic is a great live tool if you know how to use it. All that being said, your case is *exactly* what MainStage was made for and most Broadway pits and a lot of national touring acts use it, including Gary Numan, whom I just saw last week. Best $30 you’ll ever spend.
  2. Do you have the a hub attached to the computer, and more to the point, a hub that provides power? My system has usb interference/grounding if my MBP is drawing power from the hub, I have to make sure it is powered from the 140watt adapter (MBPs take their power from the highest wattage source). I wish that it were an option to turn off power delivery on hubs.
  3. Create a ‘midi instrument’ object and cable the iPad to it, and now make sure that object is sending to your synth. I use Monitor objects in between almost everything in the environment so I can see what data is going where. An added bonus of the monitor object is that it makes it easy to run multiple cables from one midi source.
  4. Very interested in this. I'm a master of Logic control and *very* picky about my control surfaces. I want to be impressed by this.
  5. If you are looking for more interactivity in the live show then Logic is better than MainStage, if you were must looking for instruments and FX with straight playback then MainStage is 100% the way to go. If I were choosing between the 2 I would go for an M1 with 16 gigs of RAM over the M2 with 8. The M1 is still a very powerful machine and I use a 2020 M1 13" MacBook Pro/16 and my live set has a *lot* happening. If *I'm* not stressing it, you won't. As much as it pains me to say it, you could also look at Ableton if your needs are simple. (not saying Ableton can only do simple things, learning how to use it and convert your songs to it won't be that hard if your needs are simple) Surely some piece of gear you've bought has a free version of Live Lite somewhere.
  6. When I play live each song is a different project. If you are using a modern Mac projects can load very quickly. You can make if even faster by removing any audio file and any plugin that isn't being used that night. if you are using sampled instruments you can make a version that only has the samples in the range you are using loaded. I use a controller to send a CC event to Keyboard Maestro, which can close the current project, open the specific project for that CC and never have to touch my computer. It works great, and Keyboard Maestro isn't expensive.
  7. I'm not using VEP as much as I used to, but I never understood the multiport thing anyway so I just have each plug in as it's own software instrument (in Logic) inside of one VEP project. It might not be efficiency but who cares, it is on a secondary computer anyway. I haven't experience stuck notes, but again, not using then multiport feature.
  8. That is the normal routing, it goes from the Sum to the Input Note Object, to the Input view to Seq Input. I'm assuming that you are using the Integra-7 as the master controller or is there a controller coming in from the Scarlett? Either way, disconnect the cable from the Sum and cable straight from whatever is the controller to the Input Notes. Or create a new monitor and cable the Motif straight to that to rule that out as the culprit. Not really, the best you can do is expand the Physical Inputs object a bit (bottom right corner) so that the names aren't cut off. The Environment goes waayyyyyyyyyyyy back and has never been upgrade visually. I'm used to it and use it *a lot*. One thing to know is that you can always redo a cable, so don't be afraid that you are doing to permanently screw something up if you make a mistake or want to undo a change.
  9. Actually, no. You could do this with any controller that can send a CC command and Keyboard Maestro. I use the Morningstar MC-8 foot pedal for this, it has 40 banks and each bank can have 2 pages of 8 presets (it is a foot switch with 8 buttons) My Bank of Banks has the songs I want to play, so whatever preset I hit on that bank will send a CC command to Keyboard Maestro on my Mac, KM converts the CC in to keyboard commands, those commands close the current project, wait a second (you can program pauses) then launch the project that I want. You can even program enough of a pause in to have it finish loading the project and have it start playing. I don't do that, instead I also have the MC-8 triggering samples on my iPad running Loopy Pro while the song loads. I hate hate hate talking on stage. The MC-8 can also send straight keyboard commands, it is a GREAT device. Anyway, once the song is loaded (which is sooooooo much faster on modern Macs that it is always finished way before the sample I have playing ends) I can then hit Play (or Record) with the MC-8. This reads as complicated, it isn't. I can help you with it if you want to try that route. This lets me play any song in any order I want and never touch the computer. Who wants to futz with the trackpad and find something on stage? Not me.
  10. This is true, there are plenty of ways to setup controllers for this in MainStage, and unless you want the ability to change the arrangement of the song in real time (extend sections, etc) you could bounce the audio down to multi track and still manipulate things. Even with synth plugins that have all the control I need I still use the AutoFilter plug in for real time manipulation, and you can apply that to audio tracks to change them in real time. I will disagree, with respect, with Dewdman in that Logic is an *awesome* live tool, it just takes some environment knowledge. My ability to build songs on stage and make the show very live is super important to me. It is also important to me that there is the possibility for things to go wrong, otherwise it doesn't feel like a live thing. Don't get me wrong, I am an absolutely insufferable baby after the show *if* things go wrong, and I practice the crap out of it to reduce the risk as much as I can, but otherwise I'd feel like it is one step above miming. I do have some very strong feelings about the over reliance of playback with 'live' music these days. I call it 'The Stroke Test', as in, if the performer were to have a stroke on stage and couldn't use one of their arms would it make ANY difference to what I'm hearing?
  11. Plus there are now some docks that have a slot for SSD drives, I am using a Sonnet Tech Echo 20 unit, lots of ports and added a 2TB ssd to it for $110. (the dock itself is $300)
  12. Well, yeah, you are asking a lot of that old machine. On any intel machine I had I could never use anything less than 256 as my buffer, usually I had 512. With an 11 year old i5 with only 8 gigs of ram you are going to see performance issues with any heavy plugin, even more so with your sample rate set to 88.2. yes, any M1-M2-M3 is going to give you sooooo much more power and give you more options.
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