I've been waiting for this release, and I'm really disappointed to read about all the problems.
I'm a recent Mac convert, long time PC user. I've been a gigging keyboard player for 40+ years. About a year ago I started gigging with a Windows laptop running Forte with Kontakt, Ivory and Omnisphere along with my trusty Motif ES Rack. About 6 months back I bought a loaded 2014 model MacBook Pro and switched to Mainstage, thinking it would be more stable.
Where can I learn more about creating separate boot partitions and tweaking for live performance? How difficult/risky would it be to try to add a Windows boot partition?
Also Wondering how hard it would be to use Bidule to build a Forte-like environment on the Mac, with a "rack" for my soft synths and a flexible, programmable midi patch bay sort of thing where I could route a couple of keyboards to those soft synths in various split/layered/transposed configurations that I could call up with program change messages.
I kinda liked using Lemur on my iPad for set lists with a few buttons to call up the patches I use for each song
That's all so much work, though. I had really hoped that Mainstage would be the integrated application that would make it all happen. Still no "magic bullet," I guess.