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Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:27 pm
by p.pan
For me the principal is to record the MIDI in DP.
With a confortable playing.

After you can use the VIs in DP.
Or also I discover you can use the VIs of Mainstage like all the VIs are include in Mainstage bundle.
And when you finish you recording.
With the IAC Driver you send back your MIDI to Mainstage.
And via Adat you record the audio in DP.

For that I use 2 Audio interfaces.
One send by the ADAT the sound of Mainstage in DP.

I dont If I am clear.
Sorry.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:31 pm
by bayswater
This shows how to use Garageband sounds in DP. You can follow the same instructions using Mainstage and Logic instead of Garageband.

Is that what you were asking?

http://www.motu.com/techsupport/technotes/DP_and_GB.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:03 pm
by p.pan
Look very nice I try that tomorow.

Thanks

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:38 pm
by cuttime
Let's try this again. Say, for instance, I have an AU plugin in MS2 (in my case DrumCore 3) instantiated at a buffer of 16. I want to publish the DrumCore MIDI outputs to a MIDI track in DP at a buffer of 1040. How do I route MS2's MIDI outs to a track in DP?

My setup does not include SoundFlower. I've tried it, and can't get it to work. My MainStage / DP rig involves routing the computer output via the Mix 1 Return in CueMix. This only works with MOTU FW interfaces.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:59 am
by bayswater
Soundflower doesn't carry MIDI, and I don't think the buffer size affects MIDI. I've used MS1 to play ESX24 sounds in DP following the procedure described by MOTU in the post above on how to use Garageband in DP. You used Interapplication MIDI for MIDI and Soundflower for audio.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:15 am
by stubbsonic
That makes sense. I'll read that linked post. I'll be curious to see which app needs to stay "in front" for it all to play nice.

Speaking of nice, is there a change in the "niceness" (i.e., work priority) in DP for MS2 to be cool in the background?

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:40 am
by bayswater
I don't recall that it matters which is in front. But I find that whenever I've had one of the three Apple audio apps running, things get flaky in DP. I suspect the Apple apps are doing things to CoreAudio etc that DP doesn't like, but I can't verify or repeat anything.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:22 pm
by Michael Canavan
cuttime wrote:Let's try this again. Say, for instance, I have an AU plugin in MS2 (in my case DrumCore 3) instantiated at a buffer of 16. I want to publish the DrumCore MIDI outputs to a MIDI track in DP at a buffer of 1040. How do I route MS2's MIDI outs to a track in DP?

My setup does not include SoundFlower. I've tried it, and can't get it to work. My MainStage / DP rig involves routing the computer output via the Mix 1 Return in CueMix. This only works with MOTU FW interfaces.
Well my question is are you playing the sounds in Drumcore with a hardware controller or are you playing MIDI loops in Drumcore? If you're playing the sounds in Drumcore with a hardware controller, the idea is to set the exact same controller you're using in Mainstage to a track in DP so that when you play the instance of Drumcore in Mainstage, at the same time you're recording MIDI into DP. You then simply open up that instance in DP and you're done. The high buffer setting in DP won't affect MIDI recording and the low buffer in Mainstage allows you to hear what you're recording without a crippling delay.

I'm not exactly sure why you would want to route MIDI loops playing in Drumcore to DP instead of just hosting Drumcore in DP? so I'm guessing you're missing that you would just be recording the MIDI your controller sends in DP.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:47 pm
by cuttime
Michael Canavan wrote: I'm not exactly sure why you would want to route MIDI loops playing in Drumcore to DP instead of just hosting Drumcore in DP? so I'm guessing you're missing that you would just be recording the MIDI your controller sends in DP.
Thanks for the response. I guess the main reason for my question was in the spirit of experimentation with the OP's hypothesis. I just wanted to see if I could generate a MIDI loop in MS2 without an external controller at the incredibly low buffer rate of 16 while recording in DP at 1024. I wanted to know what is possible and take it from there. Basically I am unable to publish the MIDI outs from an AU plug hosted in MS2. Perhaps this is the way that MS2 is intended to be, however, I am able to get the audio from both apps to play quite nicely with each other through CueMix.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:16 am
by Michael Canavan
cuttime wrote: Basically I am unable to publish the MIDI outs from an AU plug hosted in MS2. Perhaps this is the way that MS2 is intended to be, however, I am able to get the audio from both apps to play quite nicely with each other through CueMix.
Yeah unfortunately that's not surprising, Mainstage is of course coded by the same people who code Logic. Reports are that Logic has issues with plug ins being able to send MIDI out, so sequencer plug ins like drum machines and Reaktor step sequencers etc. don't work in Logic regardless of whether an AU can publish its internal MIDI to another track in your DAW etc. What that means for us is that most plug in developers have coded and refined this in say FXpansion Geist VST but haven't for the AU version. Basically Logic holds DP back this way. It will be interesting to see if the Windows version of DP can send and receive MIDI between VST plug ins.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:29 pm
by cuttime
Using Mainstage to host plugs in 64 bit with a buffer of 16 is very appealing, though. I never noticed how sensitive and responsive a VI could be until I tried it with that buffer.

Re: Mainstage and DP7.24

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:13 am
by cuttime
Michael Canavan wrote: Reports are that Logic has issues with plug ins being able to send MIDI out, so sequencer plug ins like drum machines and Reaktor step sequencers etc.
The new version of MS (2.2.1) has fixed this.