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  1. Actually my setup is exactly the same, it is a 2020 air and the samsung T7, but I've updated to Sonoma. LP hung up again installing the second set of additional sounds. I have two partitions on the drive, one for Time Machine backups and the other for general stuff, which is where I'm putting the library. We'll see what happens.
  2. So I deleted LP and the library, reinstalled it with the minimal sound library on the external drive. So far so good... I then downloaded the first bit of the additional library, then installed that... it appeared to be hanging but now seems ok. I wonder if there was some indexing issue when it installed the huge library on the external drive.
  3. LP 10.8.1, 2018 Macbook Air. I decided to move my library to my external Samsung 1TB drive. That seemed to work fine. Since I had plenty of room on it I decided to then download all the additional content. It was slow, and at some point it seemed to make LP hang, so I had to kill it and restart. After several attempts, it appeared I had finally completed the downloads and it appeared to be installing the additional sounds, and then it hung up again. Now when I open LP it just hangs, no windows, just the spinning ball when I hover over the menu items. Oh update, now I can't even get the menus to show up!
  4. I was thinking something a bit simpler—between LP's tools and these.
  5. I'm a singer/songwriter and I primarily play guitar/bass. I can mess around with keys but I'm not versatile or skilled enough to do anything particularly interesting. So I'm looking for a tool to help me out. Ideally, it would be smart enough to identify the chords or bass notes I'm playing but it would be ok if I had to enter the chords manually. It would then offer different rhythmic patterns/styles, inversions, arpeggios and other stylistic features. Once I had a pattern I liked I would then be able to "print" it to a midi track and edit it in the piano roll as I wanted, and of course change instruments. I've messed around with LP's built in arpeggiator and chord trigger, but they're very... generic and it's not clear how to use them to achieve a certain style. Are there any tools out there that fit this niche?
  6. Ok, I've spent WAY too much time on this... I was a web developer in a former life, and I try to write code as compact as possible. Documentation on this API is horrible. I had trouble getting the "sendAtBeat" method to work, turns out you MUST have the HandleMIDI function included for it to work. For some reason you must add 1 to the actual program change number ("P#"). The clock keeps running during playback unless stopped, I added that factor in. You can now go from set to set and have the script trigger the changes correctly. The only remaining issue is that a "set" (song) may begin on a beat other than the downbeat. That may be an issue for some, but I don't think it will be for me. My primary motivation is to be able to change vocal and guitar patches in sync with the backing track. It now works as planned. Here's the code: // Add 1 to P# shown for beat entry below // Edit with your own Beat: Program Change # value pairs var changes = { 4: 2, 8: 3, 12: 1, 16: 2, 20: 3, 24: 1 }; /*******************************************/ var NeedsTimingInfo = true; var startBeat = 0; function Reset() { startBeat = 0; } function ProcessMIDI() { if (startBeat) return; startBeat = GetTimingInfo().blockStartBeat; Object.keys(changes).forEach(function(beat) { var pc = new ProgramChange; pc.number = changes[beat]; pc.sendAtBeat(startBeat + parseInt(beat)); }); } function HandleMIDI(event){ }
  7. Been tearing my hair (what little of it that's left) out trying to figure this out. Here's a great resource on scripting for Logic & Mainstage, hopefully this will reduce the tears: https://www.musios.app/logic-pro-scripter/
  8. Yeah, I was planning to use a minimal pedalboard, just a back/next and toggle play button setup. Does Ableton live have a decent set of effects for vocals and guitar? I'll check it out.
  9. But that’s exactly the point. If I have to use a pedal to change settings I might as well just use a pedalboard. Makes no sense.
  10. So the backing track is at the set level, and the different patches sit within the set. What triggers the progression from one patch to the next?
  11. I’d like to use MainStage for live performances using backing tracks from LP. From what I’ve read I can have MS play the track and have a patch for vocal and guitar, so far so good. For a few of my songs I want to change the patch for the vocal or guitar during the song, e.g. distortion on the vocals only during the choruses. What’s the best way to have MS do this automatically?
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    Auto-Comp?

    Yeah no, too complex and expensive. And not integrated with the DAW.
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    Auto-Comp?

    Ok, I also found Captain Chord, which appears to do something similar. Anyone have any experience with it? I have a decent understanding of theory, and can create my own progressions, but it would be nice to have a tool that would: 1. Automagically play/suggest chords/arpeggios 2. Automagically provide rhythmic patterns suitable to the song, and 3. Automagically provide suggested orchestration suitable to the song Maybe this is getting into AI territory?
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    Auto-Comp?

    So I keep seeing ads for Phil Speiser's plugins — The Instrument, The Pattern, The Liquid — which got me exploring what other tools are out there. I'm primarily a songwriter, and I came across iReal Pro. It's a highly rated tool and I may buy it, but what I'd really like is something that integrates with LP. I'd love to be able to, say, bring in a song in a particular style, and then mess with it, change the chords, patterns, rhythms, voicing/orchestration. Basically, I'm an ok guitarist but I'd love to have some templates so that when I create a song I can automagically add, say, an organ pattern that fits the song's style. Like something between iReal and the loops in Logic. Are there any other similar tools people are using? Is The Instrument worth it? Are there other templates or loop packages that are better or cheaper? Can LP's live loops mode be used like this?
  15. It happened again, I had to re-record the audio. Could it be the interface? I'm using a Scarlett Solo
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