#Mainstage 3 musicplayer forum series#

It's basically Ableton's session view within Logic. I use Logic in live situations more than ever now for backing track playback, because Live Loops lets you really easily create a session where you can trigger certain sections of a song and bounce around between sections really easily. However, the line was just recently blurred between MainStage and Logic with the Live Loops feature. If you are playing an electric drum pad or keyboard in a live situation and want to have all your studio sounds at your fingertips without having to click through a bunch of menus to make changes on the fly, MainStage is a really good way to achieve that.

It allows you to take a VST, apply some effects, and design your own UI layout, with the controls you need right on screen, and nothing you don't need.

#Mainstage 3 musicplayer forum series#

It also makes it very easy to program a series of presets, one after the other, for quick switching of sounds and patches between songs. It is designed to be lighter and use less of your CPU than Logic would. The best way I can describe it is this: MainStage is set up to take the sounds and instrument plugins that you can use in Logic, and streamlines the UI for ease of use during a live situation. They create the tracks in Logic and do all of their editing there, and then use Mainstage when playing live. I am a drummer, keyboardist, and playback engineer (backing tracks) that uses Ableton and MainStage live, and Logic in the studio. I have some friends who use backing tracks when playing live music for added effect (a second guitar player is recorded, some slight backing tracks, occasional really big snare hits).