SLMC Second Life® Music Community Forum    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Join! (free) >   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Anyone using Mainstage in SL? Page Previous  1, 2          SLMC Forum Index -> MAC Users View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Silas Scarborough Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1635 Location: None Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:02 am    Post subject: keith wrote: Great info, thanks! I'll check it out. Got myself a pro desktop with a couple megs of ram, so I'm hoping I'll be in good shape. I hope you mean a couple of GIGs of RAM.  You might want to boost that as adding a couple more gigabytes of RAM is the single cheapest performance boost you can give to the box and it's ridiculously easy to install in a Mac desktop. _________________ Silas Scarborough Silas World Tour Blog Find a place to play and I'll roll the P.A. anywhere If you want to play, bring yer guitar Back to top keith Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Novato, CA Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:55 pm    Post subject: Silas Scarborough wrote: keith wrote: Great info, thanks! I'll check it out. Got myself a pro desktop with a couple megs of ram, so I'm hoping I'll be in good shape. I hope you mean a couple of GIGs of RAM.  You might want to boost that as adding a couple more gigabytes of RAM is the single cheapest performance boost you can give to the box and it's ridiculously easy to install in a Mac desktop. Did I say megs? Damn...still thinking I'm in 90s PC land. I mean gigs.   I guess I can always add more--got space for 16 gigs. But I've never had any major performance issues in the year I bought the computer. You think it's worth going for another couple gigs? Then again, that's a no-brainer... _________________ www.keith-moore.net All things guitar: blog, jam tracks, rants, etc. Back to top Silas Scarborough Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1635 Location: None Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:50 pm    Post subject: Sure the memory is worth it.  Any half-way hopped-up desktop probably cost well over a grand.  Putting a couple of hundred dollars more memory into it seems a value to me.  The improvement will be subtle but it's worthwhile, particularly for running big programs, running a whole lot of them at the same time, and/or running programs with big memory requirements for data...in other words, pretty much anything a computer does. I've got eight GB in my desktop but I wouldn't put more in it unless I have some specific problem I am trying to solve. _________________ Silas Scarborough Silas World Tour Blog Find a place to play and I'll roll the P.A. anywhere If you want to play, bring yer guitar Back to top keith Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Novato, CA Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:10 pm    Post subject: So, Nad, did you say that all your mic tracks are unmuted and you just select the track you want to sing with? When I do that (in Logic) I get all the mic tracks working at the same time. I've got a few songs that have heavily effected vocals in the verse then clean vocals in the chorus, so I'm trying to figure out a good way to work out the transitions. Clicking the mute between tracks ain't going to cut it. I did create a setup similar to yours in Logic and it worked well, though I gotta get a handle on my mic/backing track levels. Seems like a tossup between using Logic or Mainstage (with backing tracks assigned to sampler/controller keys), though I think Mainstage has a feature that let's one patch ring out as you switch to another... _________________ www.keith-moore.net All things guitar: blog, jam tracks, rants, etc. Back to top Nad Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 542 Location: at my puter. Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:25 pm    Post subject: keith wrote: So, Nad, did you say that all your mic tracks are unmuted and you just select the track you want to sing with? When I do that (in Logic) I get all the mic tracks working at the same time. I've got a few songs that have heavily effected vocals in the verse then clean vocals in the chorus, so I'm trying to figure out a good way to work out the transitions. Clicking the mute between tracks ain't going to cut it. I did create a setup similar to yours in Logic and it worked well, though I gotta get a handle on my mic/backing track levels. Seems like a tossup between using Logic or Mainstage (with backing tracks assigned to sampler/controller keys), though I think Mainstage has a feature that let's one patch ring out as you switch to another... I did say that except I use GB - i never tried the setup with Logic. I suggest you do this with GB. With GB the mic you select is the only mic working. I jsut dont know about Logic. I olnly use Logic to work on a particular song - then i bounce it out to a AIF that I place into the GB file. _________________ This text appears at the bottom of my posts. 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