![]() There were a couple of options for Windows only, such as Forte and Cantabile but frankly, I couldn’t even figure out how to get started with either of them. One of the better known, Ableton Live, was interesting, but in spite of its name, it really wasn’t focused on live performance the way I needed it to be, being more song oriented than show oriented. So like coming to a fork in the road, I had to make a choice. A bigger problem was that VST support in MaxMSP was becoming problematic and unreliable, at least for the ways in which I needed to use them. Unfortunately, newer versions of Max were becoming much less reliable and I was forced to stick with MaxMSP version 5 even though newer versions had some really cool features, particularly editing related, that would have been really helpful. It was an ongoing project and it worked sufficiently well that I went on tour several times with that environment. I wrote a 3-part article about how I did this which you can read on our old blog page. My next approach was to implement MainStage functionality using MaxMSP version 5 from Cycling74. However, I soon ran into some very bizarre problems with MainStage, the details of which are beyond the scope of this article but suffice it to say that I just couldn’t get things to work reliably the way I needed. ![]() You know, surrounding myself with about 9 keyboards including a Korg Oasys, a Prophet 8, a Moog Voyager, a twin-manual Hammond clone and various MIDI keyboard controllers. At the time, I was still doing the Rick Wakeman/Keith Emerson thing. ![]() As a Mac user I was naturally drawn to Apple MainStage, which, at the time, I felt was going to be just perfect for me. The short answer is we needed it ourselves! The long answer is, well, much longer, so read on.Īlthough I was using various MIDI sequencers and DAWs since the 80s, I only got back into live performance about nine years ago. ![]()
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