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pierox Author

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mainstage 2.2.1 and MAC OSX Lion update 10.7.4 CRASH!

hello there.

I'm dealing with an issue with mainstage and the last update from apple's OS, 10.7.4. The mainstage software (witch is intended for live - and steady - use) is crashing often after the OS update. I'm a professional musician and last night a had the third gig in a row with several problems with my setup. Mainstage starts behaving very strangely, a white intermitent bar appears in both sides of the section with the CPU usage and other infos in the top of the edit window. Then i suddenly can't change preset nor patches. the octaves are wrong and the sounds too. then comes the "rolling ball of mac" anouncing something really wrong. After the first time it happened and mainstage crash until closed, i managed to reopen it in the middle of the gigs... it was very stressing and frustrating.

before the last show, yesterday, I searched for answers in forums and here I found that maybe installing the update from appstore would end this issues. so I did, even being an owner of the logic bundle witch came with mainstage, and paid 29 dollars for the software again. the install was alright but the problems remain (actually it was the worst scenario in a gig for me ever...)

PLEASE HELP! i'm a recent user of the mac system, i have late 2009 macbook pro with mainstage 2.2.1 running mac OSX 10.7.4.

I cant afford having this kind of issues in the middle of my job! this become a real problem for me!

in case anyone would ask, NO, i haven't made a time machine backup in order to roll back the OS. my bad.

thanks,

piero

MainStage, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 21, 2012 10:34 AM

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Blueberry

Level 4

3,087 points

Posted on May 21, 2012 12:53 PM

There are some tips in this thread, like removing a toolbar object:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3960938

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Apr 22, 2013 11:48 PM in response to GFUNK AUDIO SYSTEM

I guess its interesting to note thast throughout the process of upgrading gear, I have 2 laptops, and 2 midi controllers, so, the old system is now a backup for the new system.

I start on the new system, and when it fails, I move to the other board.

When that quits, the first system has rebooted, and it gets some live time for maybe a song or 2.

At which point I'd be ready to move back to the old system.

Believe me, I have done this to get through the gig. More than once.

Technically, it does my head in with the setup i have.

Feels like I'm going nucking futs crazy

Blueberry

Level 4

3,087 points

Apr 22, 2013 11:49 PM in response to GFUNK AUDIO SYSTEM

They crash reports are saved on your system. And that the system gets really slow points towards that you don't have enough memory in your system: in 64-bit it doesn't crash, but it gets slower.

Blueberry

Level 4

3,087 points

Apr 23, 2013 8:57 AM in response to GFUNK AUDIO SYSTEM

Don't forget you also had to rent a place to store for all this equipment. Sorry, but this shopping list doesn't help resolving the issue. A lot of really large professional bands use MainStage without any issues, so it must be specific to your setup.

Go to ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and look for MainStage logs. Post the latest one.

I still think that you are running out of memory, if the system is swapping when using your concerts you probably use a _lot_ of sample libraries without having the physical memoty to store them. In 32-bit mode the app will crash at some point, in 64-bit it will come to a crawling stop.

mainstage 2.2.1 and MAC OSX Lion update 10.7.4 CRASH!