Gaining a basic understanding of the underlying workings of the program was like a treasure hunt. The level of support and info for MS has always been minimal. MS has a fairly steep learning curve if you need to design your own setup, which I imagine quite a few of us do. I use MS with a Fishman Tripleplay and an Apogee Gio through a 2GHz i7 with 8gb RAM and a SSD. I'll add some here but my frustration, and root of my rant, has been my inability to use MainStage repeatedly without mishap, restart, shutdown, etc. It turned out to be a simple conflict with Guitar Rig assignments. The only problem I had early on, was the MIDI mapping to my Rig Kontrol. That's with all my guitar tones and synth sounds being produced via plugins, and processing for keyboards, bass and vocals. It's a solid, compact rackmount setup which never gives me any trouble during 3 hour gigs. I use a Korg nanoKontrol to mix on-stage and a Rig Kontrol as my guitar pedal board. I run my guitar signal through one channel, guitar synth through another, then I feed the keyboard player's audio, bassist and 2 vocal mics through another 4 channels.
#Mainstage pc version mac#
I just took a notion one day to replace amps, pedal boards and my mixer with my studio Mac Mini. I've basically put very little effort into setting up patches, yet been able to gig with total confidence that the system can cope with everything I throw at it.
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I have to say, my experience is quite the opposite, but maybe I'm not pushing my system as much as some.