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Apple MainStage 3 V3.0.1 MAC OSX

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Hi. I played a fairly huge sold out debut show for a new act I'm working with last saturday and halfway through the last song, the samples I was triggering in kontakt within mainstage started to act very strangely. They basically started to get glitchy and play out of time, so that a sample from previous bars was still playing a few bars later, out of time. They were also strangely slowing down and speeding up.



Apple MainStage 3 v3.0.1 MAC OSX

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Today I've been trying to replicate the problem by pushing my computer to the limit and replaying the songs in my studio. I've currently got 23 applications running in the background (including things like photoshop and final cut). I thought that if it was a cpu or memory problem then surely this would recreate the issue - on the gig I had nothing else running. So far, mainstage is struggling a bit and some of the samples are cutting out prematurely, but there is not the same slow down, speed up warped sound - which is much worse than samples just cutting out.


Within mainstage I have only 5 songs, most of which have 2 instances of Kontakt - 1 running "Piano in Blue" and one with multiple production samples stacked (on separate kontakt "instruments") which are triggered sometimes quite a few at the same time. I would have thought this wasn't a problem as 1 x kontakt playing 10 or so audio samples at the same time is no where near as complicated as a seriously multisampled instrument like "Piano In Blue". Theres also one track using Arturia Prophet V2 and also 2 instances of the TAL U-NO synth on a song that we didn't play.


Also, I've used mainstage with a number of other bands over the last few years with HEAPS more stuff going on and haven't encounted this problem.... This is probably only my 2nd or 3rd gig with version 3 however....


It is a known issue, that this sensor can also be triggered by the kind of vibrations which can occur on a loud stage. This would explain why you can't replicate the problem in your studio. It also would explain why it happened during a song which featured loud drums and bass.


In fact, for playing live, I have an entirely separate boot partition of OSX that has NOTHING installed except my performance software. No printer drivers (my awesome canon multi has software that CONSTANTLY runs). NOTHING but the essentials of what I'm doing on that stage. You can just open your projects from the drive that you built them while using--the user account where you also use safari and whatever else you like to do.






I didn't consider sample rate compatability when I was bouncing my audio samples out of logic, and bounced them at 48kHz (24Bit). I've now checked Mainstages Sample rate and found that its set to 44.1kHz.


Could this be a problem? For the most part they were playing fine so its not like in logic where any audio files that are at a different sample rate to the session are played back at the wrong speed... I'm assuming Mainstage (or kontakt?) has a some a way of matching sample rates on the fly. But perhaps it was getting confused and switching back and forth between 44.1 and 48khz and that was what was causing the slow down speed up issue??


Option two: I don't know this to really solve your particular issue, but it's worth a shot. Your mate above mentioned the Kontakt settings. There are specific settings in Kontakt itself for sample preload, CPU and memory footprint characteristics. These appear in the plug-in as well as the standalone, accessible in the setup pane. Fiddle with them in an effort to limit CPU max load to somewhere in the 90s, because mainstage can use the overhead.


Maybe it even involves turning it into a joke for the audience... a technical bobble can make for a great stage joke and get the audience laughing more than they ever would. I recently watched a Devin Townsend video in which he screwed up a tune, and then went on to highlite and lampoon himself doing it and talk about what was going through his head at the time, and you can just hear the audience doubled over laughing.


I recently finished creating a multi patch setup for a live performance. There are two keyboards, each with their own unique instrument settings in each patch. Problem is, when I closed Mainstage and came back to it a few days later, each keyboard was playing a combination of the two keyboard parts, rather than each playing their own. Anybody know who to fix this?


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