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Apple mainstage flowchart10/10/2023 However, for more complex signal routing, Gig Performer and Cantabile are better suited for it. I'm still on S1 5 Pro-I don't know if they've made a lot of improvements in S1 6 Pro.įor doing basic stuff using the DAW-centric insert/bus paradigm which is most of the time for me when using keys, I find Mainstage, VST Live, or S1 Show Page is faster. I like this as well, but for doing splits and transposes, have to create a multi instrument, explicitly adding another layer, whereas VST Live has that capability for every patch. Set up "players" and save the presets for each song. similar to VST Live, I like the more DAW-centric design. with a more DAW-centric bus type of workflow, and is faster if all you want to do is have virtual instruments and just mix between them. The way this works is more straightforward to me than GP4. Definitely worth that price, given it comes with Padshop 2, Retrologue 2, and HALion Sonic 7 with Pro / Artist / Basic Sets. I picked this up for $50 when it was 50% off. Better (cleaner) looking interface than Gig Performer. includes the EXS instruments available in Logic. I've only tried the free version.Īpple Mainstage (Mac only). A Mac version is being worked on, but it's been several years and still hasn't been released. Their updates are subscription based, like Bitwig. The principle design goals are stability, performance, and flexibility. They have three tiers of their product (free, Solo, and Performer). If on Windows only, Cantabile is the most obvious competitor to Gig Performer. Here are some of my experiences/thoughts. I feel that having competition is good for the market. Sounds to me like you should be most concerned with low latency performance.Perhaps it would be more productive to talk about alternatives to Gig Performer. How low you can go ultimately depends your computer's CPU ability. so if your demands on mainstage are mild then you will run at lower latency no matter which brand of interface you use. If your demands of mainstage are higher then the quality of the interface's driver and the CPU overhead the driver imposes is going to impact how low you can go with latency.įocusrite do not have a good rep in this area. MOTU has a better rep and best of all are RME and Metric Halo with maybe Apogee up there as well. You will be lucky if you can purchase any of those better brands smallest models within your budget.ĪNother solution is to purchase an optical to analog converter box instead. This box effectively uses the macs built in audio interface but puts better quality converters on the end than the built in converters. I've had great low latency performance from a mac going this way. If you have a recent MacBook Pro and decent ram you should expect to run at a 32 sample buffer setting in main stages driver settings. If you needed midi ports you purchase a 1x1 interface for very little money. Most know (obviously) that the mac has a built in sound card or audio interface otherwise how would mac output it's audio. What many don't know is that the built in interface can input/output analog or optical digital audio from the small connectors provided. Plugin an analog connector and the mac will send/ receive analog audio, plugin an optical connector and the mac knows and will input/ output optical digital audio signals.
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