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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

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Jul 7, 2012 4:48 PM in response to Patrick Seguin

What are your 30 tracks ? One track for a song ? In order to avoid cpu or ram problems, which may lead to your "spinning beachball" situation, you have to create a patch or a set for each "song". So, for each song, you will have only one playback loaded which will induce less stress on your mac than 30 playbacks loaded.


In the image below, you may see where to create patch or set...


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Jul 8, 2012 7:20 AM in response to defkam

Man you are incredibly helpful. My 30 tracks are songs, backing tracks which I play over with saxophone. I had dragged all 30 into the strip window and it made a strip for each track. So, by your example, if I create a "patch" how do I get my backing track in? Does each patch change the mixer window to reflect just that one backing track plus my performance track?

Jul 8, 2012 2:22 PM in response to Patrick Seguin

According to your way to use MS, the easiest way is therefore to create at your concert level, a patch per song, and in these patches you will create an audio track for your Sax, with the channel strips settings for playing along the song, and a software instrument track loaded with a playback instrument containing the backing track. And at each patch change, your mixer will so change and load the settings of the tracks of the new patch.


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Jul 9, 2012 5:24 PM in response to Patrick Seguin

OK I found the patch inspector and have made a set of 3 backing tracks. I can play the track in edit mode by clicking on the playback button which brings up a large playback transport controller. If I go to perform or full screen modes, I can't get the track to play. I click on the track (patch) name and try clicking on the play button but it doesn't light up or function at all.

Jul 9, 2012 11:14 PM in response to Patrick Seguin

Hi Patrick,


The concert that you posted is too complicated for what you want to do. Otherwise, the related patch or set has to be selected in your patch list for the play button of the displayed playback to be activated.


What is the version of your MS ? The Appstore one or the Logic Studio suite one ?


On youtube you have many tutorials about the use of the playback. This one is in three parts and well explained :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUGuInPvdqk

Spinning Beachball in Mainstage

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