wsirota Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 OK, so I want to play my guitar over an evolving drum beat being generated in an external (MAX) program sending MIDI signals to play notes in a Mainstage Concert-level channel strip with an Ultrabeat instrument in it. In other words, I want Mainstage to process my guitar and produce drum sounds simultaneously. Unfortunately, it seemed I have to choose either guitar or drums - I can hear the drums when I'm in Edit mode in Mainstage and the Concert is selected in the Patch List, but as soon as I switch to an actual patch to play guitar, the audio from the drum strip shuts down. I know I could put an Ultrabeat strip into every patch, but I want to be able to change guitar sounds without affecting the beat. This approach would be a problem (in addition to organizationally), as the beat would glitch every time I changed guitar sounds. The workaround that I just discovered - put a totally empty sw instrument strip into each patch. for some bizarre reason this (I believe undocumented) behavior allows the concert-level instrument strips to function when you're in such a patch. Warren http://www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=6679 http://www.warrensirota.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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