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Q: Mainstage 3.2 critical glitch: Deleting lyrics and waveform

*sigh*

 

Man, this is really frustrating.

 

First off, bad on me. I know better than to upgrade to a .0 release. I guess my excitement for Alchemy got the best of me.


Problem 1: Deleting lyrics every time

Description:

I had an entire concert built for my band with patches for each section of the song, lyrics, etc.
After the upgrade, all of my lyrics and chords in every patch (over 100, for reference) are gone. It's the default "Your text or lyrics" message. 

 

So I go through and reenter all of them, hitting save after every patch. I make a backup of the file on a different drive.

 

Upon reopening? Nothing. Default text again. No lyrics/chords.

 

I tried deleting the text box from the layout, and then recreating it as a new object. Reentered all lyrics. Saved after every patch. Made a backup.

 

Nothing. Once I reopen, all text goes back to the default message. Conveniently, we had to play a show yesterday with none of our lyrics.


Problem 2:

 

On screen Waveform will not retain association with Playback plugin. Same as problem 1. I associate it for each playback instance/patch/set. Hit save multiple times, make a backup. Upon reopening...it's a blank waveform again.

Posted on Aug 29, 2015 6:30 AM

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  • by rc tech,

    rc tech rc tech Aug 31, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Authentic Identity
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    Aug 31, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Authentic Identity

    I saw this problem too but only on patches that do not have any channel strips in them. Maybe you can try creating an empty software instrument channel strip in some of the patches and add text and see if that solves the problem.

  • by Authentic Identity,

    Authentic Identity Authentic Identity Sep 1, 2015 1:20 AM in response to rc tech
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    Sep 1, 2015 1:20 AM in response to rc tech

    RC, thanks for the reply.

     

    Actually all patches and sets had channel strips in them. I actually made concert from scratch (twice), fresh in 3.2 to see if that would solve it.
    I also:
    Uninstalled/reinstalled.
    Disk utility repair permissions and disk
    Reset the PRAM and SMC.

     

    Nada. I had to revert to 3.1.1 using Time Machine,

     

    Very, very disappointing.

  • by baafonso,

    baafonso baafonso Sep 10, 2015 7:43 AM in response to Authentic Identity
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    Sep 10, 2015 7:43 AM in response to Authentic Identity

    Same for me with waveforms... keep having to re-assign them.. hope they fix it soon...

  • by rockstar70,

    rockstar70 rockstar70 Sep 10, 2015 12:36 PM in response to baafonso
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    Sep 10, 2015 12:36 PM in response to baafonso

    Same Waveform issue here as well.  Has anybody from Apple responded when a fix will be made?

  • by Birlibancek,

    Birlibancek Birlibancek Sep 14, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Authentic Identity
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    Sep 14, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Authentic Identity

    Same here, first I had the wrong format error with Mainstage 3.2 and was not able to open any of my 3.1.1 concerts. So I used the fix deleting the Mainstage Settings. After that I was able to open the concerts, BUT all my lyrics and text and song-notes are gone!

    This is a nightmare... I cant really perform without it, I have a dozens backups from my concerts, but none of them is showing the notes.

     

    Please Apple, get aware of this and fix this asap!!! I don't want to go back to 3.1.1 as far as alchemy is so great... 

  • by Birlibancek,

    Birlibancek Birlibancek Sep 24, 2015 1:28 PM in response to Birlibancek
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    Sep 24, 2015 1:28 PM in response to Birlibancek

    Apple just relased 3.2.1 I don't dare ;-) Anyone?

  • by rc tech,Solvedanswer

    rc tech rc tech Sep 24, 2015 2:16 PM in response to Birlibancek
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    Sep 24, 2015 2:16 PM in response to Birlibancek

    The release notes at MainStage 3.2.1 release notes - Apple Support says "Waveform screen control object mappings now display the correct image, and save as expected" and "Text inside text objects in patches that do not contain channels is now reliably retained when a concert is saved and then reopened."

  • by Authentic Identity,

    Authentic Identity Authentic Identity Sep 24, 2015 2:26 PM in response to rc tech
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    Sep 24, 2015 2:26 PM in response to rc tech

    *sigh*

     

    I guess slightly less than a month isn't too bad for an update.

  • by Birlibancek,

    Birlibancek Birlibancek Sep 24, 2015 3:43 PM in response to Authentic Identity
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    Sep 24, 2015 3:43 PM in response to Authentic Identity

    OMG... I really did the update and 3.2.1 does NOT open my Mainstage 3.1.1 files. Wrong format error... Even deleting dthe preferences files did not help :-(

    What do they do all day long at apple hq?

    Just rolled back to 3.1.1 a second time.

    SO disappointing

  • by rc tech,

    rc tech rc tech Sep 24, 2015 3:53 PM in response to Birlibancek
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    Sep 24, 2015 3:53 PM in response to Birlibancek

    Birlibancek, maybe someone at Apple can look into your problem if you post your concert or leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/mainstage.html

  • by Blueberry,

    Blueberry Blueberry Sep 26, 2015 12:54 AM in response to Birlibancek
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    Sep 26, 2015 12:54 AM in response to Birlibancek

    Did you contact Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/mainstage.html before 3.2.1 was released? It seems Apple collected a bunch of feedback for this release and fixed all the issues which were mentioned in forums with 3.2.1

  • by Birlibancek,

    Birlibancek Birlibancek Sep 28, 2015 7:24 AM in response to rc tech
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    Sep 28, 2015 7:24 AM in response to rc tech

    I can do that... but is there really a chance that someone from Apple will help?

     

    @Blueberry, no but others did and they had exactly the same problems...

     

    So I'm going to leave the feedback and get back here if something happens

  • by Birlibancek,

    Birlibancek Birlibancek Sep 28, 2015 8:01 AM in response to Birlibancek
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    Sep 28, 2015 8:01 AM in response to Birlibancek

    Yippeah! It works

     

    Before sending feedback to Apple I did the following with success:

     

    At first, I had both Mainstage Versions in Applications folder (3.1.1 and 3.2.1, you can have both installed, the 3.1.1 I just took from time machine backup, just give one of them another name, e.g. Mainstage 311)

    Then I...

    • opened up the 3.1.1 concert in 3.1.1, selected all sets and patches and saved them to disc
    • Then deleted all patches and sets but leaving my layout as it was
    • Saved the concert with a new name
    • closed Mainstage 3.1.1
    • opened Mainstage 3.2.1
    • opened the previously saved empty concert... now without format error.
    • in the patch list, loaded the previously saved patch list from the old concert...
    • now the magic: everything loaded fine into the patchlist of the new concert (Lyrics, Settings, Instruments...)
    • saved the new concert with all the patches
    • tested successfully to load the concert again in 3.2.1

     

    Now I'm happy and can start enjoying the alchemy sounds... thanks for any help and hints I got here.

    Hope the next bigger update won't be such a bunch of pain ;-)

  • by gmmccurdy,

    gmmccurdy gmmccurdy Sep 28, 2015 10:35 AM in response to Authentic Identity
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    Sep 28, 2015 10:35 AM in response to Authentic Identity

    Sorry to go off topic but I'd LOVE to know how you are handling lyrics.  I'd like to add lyrics to my template but I haven't seen a practical way to do it. 

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