bilboweaver Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 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.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Looper in MainStage works with audio only so you can just go ahead and record whatever you want. I would start by setting up audio channels with a send to a Looper plug-in inserted on an aux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilboweaver Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 So with that would I somehow be able to send all the hardware instruments (Drums, bass, my Korg KROME piano, any microphones etc) in the band to my Soundcraft mixer, then send all the individual audio from there to Mainstage on my mac, ready to be looped and manipulated at my will? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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