Optimizing system for Mainstage 2 live performance

[Adam D]

Hey, I'll be using mainstage 2 in a live show tomorrow evening. Everything is set up and working perfectly, but I heard that it was advisable to to find anything and everything else on my mac that was not required to run Mainstage 2 and turn it off. Obvious things... airport, mobile me sync, etc. Is there a master list somewhere of all the stuff that can and should be turned off to optimize system performance?

 

Much thanks!

 

Adam

[marcperi]

Well,

I suggest you to cloes everything except mainstage.

No mail, Itunes, Ical, ecc ecc

 

When you switch On the mac, just run mainstage2 and your interface sw if required and nothing else.

 

U'll not figure any problem then

[Calvi19]

Hi, this question it´s perfect for me. I use mainstage for a while now, two days ago i change my m-audio fast track to an Focusrite Saffire 14 pro with firewire and the latency it´s still the same 10 ms on 128, max 7 ms in 64 buffer, without the safety buffer option checked.

The thing is, it´s a way to download the latency? I have a Macbook pro 2011 13" with 4 gb of ram. My set up it´s pretty heavy with various Omnisphere loaded and others synths.

Thanks.

[fader8]

The thing is, it´s a way to download the latency? I have a Macbook pro 2011 13" with 4 gb of ram. My set up it´s pretty heavy with various Omnisphere loaded and others synths.

Thanks.

Probably not with a FW interface. But the Apogee Symphony Mobile would get you better latency:

http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/symphony-mobile-features.php

 

Or RME's HDSPe ExpressCard

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdspe_expresscard.php

 

In either case you'd also need to select an I/O box for these.

 

You need an expresscard slot in your Macbook, which gets you the kind of performance you'd see with a PCIe solution.