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Spinning Beachball in Mainstage

I finally figured out last night how to get my backing tracks into Mainstage. I converted all my tracks that I wanted into AIFF and dragged 30 of them into Mainstage. The program processed them and made a strip for each with a color coded name box. I tested it on a couple tunes and it worked great. I got to my gig and played maybe 8-10 tunes and went to play the next and got the dreaded MacOS spinning beach ball. I had to force quit Mainstage and restart it. This happened twice. Are there known stability bugs with Mainstage? I really want it to be my 1 man gig solution rather than playing tracks in iTunes.

On a side note, I could only do the gig in Edit mode. In performance mode or full screen mode, I couldn't see enough of the tracks to get all my backing tracks.

Logic Studio, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Jul 7, 2012 5:06 AM

17 replies

Jul 10, 2012 8:02 AM in response to defkam

MS 2, the one packaged with Logic Studio, not off the App Store.

I was able to better figure out what to do last night although it was a bit cumbersome to have to add the track and populate all the UI elements for each patch. I am up to 15 patches on 2 sets now. The only problem is that it seems like they might be more complicated than necessary. I would think all I need a bus1 track for me, a bus 2 for a 2nd instrumentalist, and a strip for the backing track. I'm not sure what all the extra tracks are.

Jul 11, 2012 7:08 AM in response to Patrick Seguin

Just an update on this. Last night I decided to start with a blank project and just created elements to play the backing track and control the levels/effects for the line ins. I got the spinning beachball when working with a simple 2 track project and 1 backing track. Additionally, as I want to add more tracks to my concert I have to go in and assign all the controls for the new track. This seems really cumbersome. I spent hours yesterday working on this and was thinking I could just use iTunes to play my tracks and use an external hardware effects unit. Do any big names actually use MS?

Spinning Beachball in Mainstage