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HELP I cannot make the Concert Level working

Hello

I am discovering MainStage ; a great product !


I have define a concert, at the concert level, with 2 x keyboards that have 4 x layers each

The volume of those 8 x layers is controlled by an externat controller (a Promix 24)


Now for each song (patch) I want to define the sound that they will use


The manual says you can "Override concert-" but I have not been able to make it work


For instance if I set in a patch with an EXS24 playing the Mellotron sound ; MainStage set all the Patches and the concert with the Mellotron


Is there is a trick or a bug ?



Thanks in advance for your help


Best


Cyril


P.S. I get overload errors with a 12 core MacPro 2010 with 32GB SSD.

Is MainStage using all the cores ?

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), RocketRaid 6gb/s Raid 0 of 8 x SSD+VSL+QLSO+

Posted on Aug 31, 2015 7:58 PM

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Sep 1, 2015 1:30 AM in response to Cyril Blanc

Hey Cyril,


First off, based on those specs, your computer is *NOT* the problem. ;-)


You can check under Mainstage->Preferences->Audio how many cores you have it set to use.



As to your other question. My technique is to ONLY put things that will stay the same through an entire concert at the Concert Level.
For me, that's usually only metronome, monitor mixes, and a reverb bus.


I typically organize as follows:
Concert Level- Things that will stay the same through the whole gig
Set Level- Things that will stay the same through a whole song.
Patch level- Things that apply to a section of a song (i.e. Verse/chorus/etc)


If you want sounds change, then add those at the lowest level that makes sense. Make the sounds be associated with a Patch can be convenient, because it lets you have "1 button" control over switching.


However, you could also set up a hardware controller to change settings within the same patch.
Remember, you can map any control to (almost) any function.


I would maybe think of it like this: If the new sound requires a different software instrument altogether, then just make a new patch.
If the new sound is just another setting within the same software instrument, then maybe just map the particular changes to your controller.

Sep 1, 2015 6:04 AM in response to Authentic Identity

Thank you very much for your answer


May I take an example

I have 30 patches in a concert, one per song.

I want to control the volume of the 8 x layers (4 per kbd) with the faders of my Pro-Mix one


If I make the assignment at the concert level I have to make 8 assignments for volume faders and 8 assignments for meters.

If I make the assignment at the patch level I have to make 8 x 2 x 30 assignments = 480 assignments



So it should b nice to be able to do the assignments at the concert level

Sep 2, 2015 7:29 AM in response to Authentic Identity

Many thanks for your answer.


This is a good idea but it does not fix the "Override concert" function


  • I have made a patch with my Concert ant it's assignments
  • Saved it
  • Delete the channels strip instruments in the Concert
  • Load my patch
  • The patch load without the channels strip instruments


I also try for the concert to be "Save As Set" it does not save anything


Looks like Apple's develloper of MainStage has to review there programming

HELP I cannot make the Concert Level working

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