Main Stage 2 Mixing Console plus backing track play list ?

Is it possible to set up a play list of backing tracks in the 8 channel mixer template ? I need to run 4 sets of 10 songs all within the 8 channel mixer since the band all plug into my presonus and we use the Mainstage mixer as our main board. I need to be able to select between songs while keeping the same mix on the console.

MainStage doesn't have "tracks", only channel strips and sets/patches. And the limit was 255 in MS1, now it is 1023. I think a few users actually reached the 255 limit in MS1

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Is there a way to get back a play list you have deleted

if there is it would save me like 2 hours from having to remake the cd play list.

click undo.
but it was probably too long ago.
so really I'm sorry but I don't think you can do anything.

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I had the same trouble w/ my iPod Touch 16GIG Gen 1 & it seemed to be worse after upgrading the software/firmware to Version 2.1; to the point where I was arranging to get it back to The Apple Store before it was 30 days old. The trouble seems to be worse as I approached 14GIG's of filled memory. I mostly have audio, but a few movies are loaded also. But I couldn't view the album art from end to end & it would also freeze & go back to the home screen after about 5 seconds of audio from an audio track intermittently. It was frustrating.
I used the HOME button on the top of the iPod to shut it down {holding it till the 'slide to power off' screen comes up & then doing the slide. Then using the HOME button to turn the iPod back on - seeing the cracked white apple when it reboots & starts back up. I haven't had any more trouble in iTunes. Maybe this reboot cleans up the memory of the iPod & a fresh reboot gives the OS a clean bill of health to look at the 14 GIGs of content that I've added in.
Give the Home button a try & let us know.
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Anyone have any suggestions on how to bring a voice more the the "front" of a mix against some backing tracks? I have tried a few different EQs, mild compression, etc. It has gotten significantly better but its not quite there yet.

Sometimes lowering mids or midrange instruments like guitars, keyboards, brass in the back trax will let the vx shine through. It sounds like your on the right track though if its getting better. Keep practicing.

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Any help - I have tried exporting to Itunes - but I cannot seem to get them to launch in Main Stage - I have tried dragging the Itunes track in but it will not stick. Any help out there?

Hi
Export the GB song to disk using the Share menu. Uncheck the "Compress" box in the dialog box to export at full quality.
Drag the resulting file onto the Channel Strip area in MS to aautomatically create a Playback channel.
CCT

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Will try to explain how I understand the way a Question slide works:
on the timeline you see a pausing point, this will be used twice
when the user clicks on the Submit button, playhead is not released but the Success/Failure captions pop up, but you cannot control anything else such like stopping the audio
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It is only in that second step that you can do more customising by changing the Success/Failure actions, perhaps to an advanced action.
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Hi I can't play back track from the middle of a software track, and hear what I have played.

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Hi I can't play back track from the middle of a software track, and hear what I have played.
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OK, so I've finished my song on garageband that I've recorded with a USB keyboard with many STEREO keyboard parts and a click track.
I need to be able to mix down to the following specification for my drummer.
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I need to be able to mix down to the following specification for my drummer.
Left Channel - Mono keyboard sounds (to goto PA)
Right Channel - Same Mono keyboard sounds plus click track (to be heard through headphones)
Here are instructions on how to split a stereo track into mono tracks:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/StereoToMono.html
On top of this, you will want to re-import the mono keyboard track back into Garageband, duplicate it onto a 2nd mono track, then add the click track (on a separate 3rd mono track of course). Then pan one mono keyboard track hard left, and pan the other mono keyboard track hard right and the click track hard right as well. Export as normal and everything should be good.

Problems with Current use of Main Stage on tour as live rig.....

Set up...
•MacBook 2.2 Ghz
4 GB ram
System 10.5.2
(airport off when using MainStage)
•MOTU Ultralite connected via Firewire (and powered by AC adapter)
•M-Audio Axiom 61 Controller (connected via USB)
•M-Audio Expression Pedal
•M-Audio Sustain Pedal
•Main Stage 1.0.2
•Motion Sound Stereo Keyboard Amp
I'm using this as my live keyboard rig with the band I play keys and lap steel in (Son Volt). We've been on tour for about a month, the set up worked flawlessly until about a week ago when it started developing problems I've been unable to figure out/fix. Here is a brief description of my "Concert"...
•I have 1 Concert.
•I don't think I am using a "set", if I even know what one is, a sub set in a concert I'm guessing...I think I just have a Concert.
•There are 14 or so Patches in my Concert.
•All are culled from sounds in logic/garageband, Organs, pianos, wurlitzer, vox, rhodes, a couple variations, and one sound that has piano with a pad sound along with it. None are that complicated, though the way they react to the controllers, especially the volume pedal as they are scrolled through seems a little unpredictable.
•The problem started about a week ago....we would start our set, and I'd get into it, use a couple sounds, then I'd use the sound with the Piano and Pad stacked, this would play fine, but then, when I'd let the rig sit dormant after using that sound, when I'd come back to it after playing steel on a couple songs, the rig would produce no sound. It would also stop showing that it was receiving MIDI info, at least based on looking at the keyboard-display that shows the keys you've played as you play them. I'd switch to other sounds, move the controllers...no-go. I'd be forced to quit and re-start the program. A hassle during live performance, to say the least.
•I haven't had a lot of time to troubleshoot this, and honestly my MIDI skills are kinda weak, but here is what I tried...
•I started over, and basically made the concert over from scratch, it works fine at soundcheck or when I mess with it...but in performance it always goes down OR...even more disturbing, now it has taken to playing random notes, not even with the currently selected sound, and freezing with those notes in play, held down. They are unstoppable, even with changing the sound, and once again, a re-start is required (I have found the MUTE button on the MainStage window, but no "panic" button or the like.)
•At tonights show I had to restart twice, and that stacked sound, which I'm coming more and more to feel like is somehow the culprit, didn't even sound completely when selected before using (the piano sound only was reproduced, the "pad" sound didn't sound.
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Thanks in advance, Mark.

Try using the application 'console' in the Utilities folder. Make sure you have both the system and console logs open from the File Menu. I resize both windows to @ 1-2 inches tall across the bottom of your screen.
If there are any USB or firewire issues. There are ways to search the logs back in time, if you know the time and date the problem occurred, look for that weeks log file (use help) search that day, or search for resets.
One other, try to keep lower speed USB devices together on one usb port. And put all the high speed devices on the other, faster with faster bus, and slow on a slower bus.
System profiler shows which usb devices are on the 'USB High-Speed Bus (faster) and USB Bus (slower)'. Check with M- Audio and MOTU for USB port speed configuration they are.
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