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1. Looper mainstage 3 pro#
2. Looper mainstage 3 software#
3. Looper mainstage 3 trial#
4. Looper mainstage 3 free#
5. Looper mainstage 3 mac#

Our touring rig (for a the a cappella duo) fits in a single carryon case. You can even automate FX, which is how all the delays and such in Taxman can come in and out.Ībleton runs on a laptop, and we use a Behringer XR18 on the front end, giving us a compact combo mixer/USB interface with up to 18 in/out.

Looper mainstage 3 free#

And, since it's also a DAW that can run on a timeline, if you've got a composition with a fixed structure (ie w/o open-ended sections), you can automate the loops ahead of time for hands free recording/muting/switching loops. It has a "looper" plugin that emulates classic loopers, so your x2, /2, multiply, reverse, one-shot. It can accept any number of inputs, and loops can be programmed to accept only one input, ie you could record a voice on one loop and bass on another, simutaneously. I've also used it in a trio-band situation, where all instruments (bass, tabla, 3 vocals) could be looped at different times so our trio could use live-looping to cover overdubs as per our studio albums.Īlbeton is fantastic. Here's something a little more lofi, recorded at home on my phone a few years back: I've also used it solo, for bass, voice and keys. 100% live, no prerecorded tracks, no post editing or mixing. Here's a live piece of us doing The Beatle's 'Taxman'. We've taken this group to over 20 countries and 6 continents now. My main live-looping project is my a cappella duo, FreePlay. I can't speak specifically to Stick+Albeton for looping, but I've been using Ableton for live looping for years. If you have a lot of Logic projects, I can see that exporting the audio and MIDI files and importing them to another DAW would be a major PITA, so yah - staying with Logic seems to be the sensible choice! I use AUM – which is technically a mixer app – on a daily basis as my "rig" for the Stick, but I use it to host a piano-roll plugin to record, write, edit and play back MIDI data, which begins to blur the distinction with DAWs.

and other packages (like Loopy Pro) that have DAW-like features. There are many good DAWs for iOS, including Steinberg's Cubasis, NanoStudio 2, MTS (Multi-track Studio), Audio Evolution, FL Studio etc.

Looper mainstage 3 mac#

I have two MIDI keyboards that I connect to either my Mac or my iPad and the apps running on either without issue.īut wrt Logic/Mainstage, yeah - Apple hasn't ported those to iOS.

Also, virtually all audio production apps on iOS support MIDI hardware. The number of virtual instruments, synths, anything that supports the AUV3 plugin interface or Inter-App Audio (IAA, the older iOS inter-op technology) is unlimited subject to how hard you're pushing the DSP. Hardware inputs are limited to the number of ports you have on your audio interface, as is the case with any DAW. Ability to simultaneously run Stick and guitar (maybe external synths). I require quotation marks when I say I'm a "musician"!īlue Railboard #7228 Matched Reciprocal, EMG block You can also incorporate synths and other virtual instruments (also with very good free options to get started with) which is kinda cool. Although now that I think about it, you could also run conventional pedals in front of your audio interface too as an alternative. One downside is you might need to invest in some effects plugins, though there are excellent free options for the most common - compression, reverb, delay, distortion, chorus etc. It's fully controllable by any MIDI controller, though a foot controller obviously is the way you'd want to go for live performance. It's pricey ($30) but does have a 7-day free trial, and seems to be very highly regarded.

Looper mainstage 3 pro#

Multiple loops, quantize, loop quantize, loop multiply (just to name a few).Īny interest in iOS solutions? I've been really interested in looping, but TBH haven't really made the effort to dive into it, but I know of one app - Loopy Pro - that seems to check all of your boxes above and a lot more. But replacing the looper AND the host is probably a sizeable task and there's functionality on the EDP I can't do without.

Looper mainstage 3 trial#

I realize there's probably a free trial and I'm not necessarily married to Mainstage or even Mac for that matter. So I'm wondering who here has really dug into this and what your impressions are? I've seen quite a few people use Ableton over the years (including this morning's killer video from Kevin Keith).

Looper mainstage 3 software#

So as much as I still love my EDP, I'd really like to see if there's any software that might work for me. Other devices just never quite did it for me and the only software that I ever found to come close was Mobius which appears to have vanished after Mac went 64-bit. I've used an Echoplex Digital Pro for almost 20 years and still do.

My live rig today is completely computer based (aside from my preamps) using Mac and Mainstage. People that know me know I've done quite a lot of looping over the years.