Hello all
I am looking at creating a live setup in which I can loop myself and band members on stage, and affect everyones instruments with effects from logic and native instruments. The band consists of myself on keys, a guitarist, a drummer and a bassist.
Firstly I am aware of the possibility of looping Logic Pro instruments using the Loopback plugin in Mainstage, but is it possible to send audio to my laptop and loop that live (as opposed to MIDI)? Essentially I want a global click track playing for all the band members, and for all their instruments to be routed to me and looped within my laptop, where I can then control when they come in and out, where I can control the effects of each instrument etc.
I have a soundcraft signature 12 MTK mixing desk that might help with channeling this, and a Maschine Mikro I can use to control Mainstage, but please excuse my noob level in this area, I pretty much don't know what I'm doing.
I am using sounds from Logic Pro X and Native Instruments on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of ram and 125GB of memory, running NI off a 2TB lacie hard drive, thunderbolt / 8,000-10,000ish rpm, High Sierra 10.13.3.
I hope what I have said has made sense, if anyone has any setup solutions that will enable me to accomplish this I cannot tell you how grateful I would be, would make a huge difference to what we could do live.
Thank you in advance!
(NOTE: I am running Native Instruments of an external hard drive which I am aware my cause some problems with CPU usage...unfortunately due to the fact that macs nowadays seem to be non-upgradeable I am stuck with my 8GB of ram and 125GB of memory. However if I can loop audio live in mainstage then I should barely need NI at all.)
(NOTE 2: Also note I have NEVER used Mainstage so am not au fait with how it works.)