![]() There’s also a slightly gimmicky record start/stop effect, which I’m sure will be a boon to anyone doing editing for MTV.īut make no mistake about it: Flex Time could heat things up. Very much like Ableton Live, Logic also adds modes based on material (rhythmic, polyphonic, slicing), and an audio quantize mode that applies the feel of one track to another. You actually drag the mouse on the waveform itself, turning the sound into a Silly Putty-like, warpable view. The music software market is already crowded with tools that promise to let you manipulate audio independent of its original tempo – but this implementation is more interesting than you might first think. ![]() Of course, performance is everything in these implementations, so it’ll be fun to torture test MainStage 2 and see how it stands up.Īnd for anyone who wanted Live clips and Sculpture in one session, this could be interesting. At least it seems they haven’t used that for the entire UI. ![]() Still, that matches the simplicity of some of the other tools here.Īugh… and yes, that is Apple’s now-ubiquitous album art view as the browser mechanism for templates, proving they really don’t know where to stop. My first impression of this is that this doesn’t appear to match things like the new looper in Ableton Live 8, which can set an entire project tempo – it’s more like a basic stompbox effect, as we’ve seen previously in Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig. There’s also a live loop recorder, tape style. It’s a nice implementation, and different from what’s currently out there. Grouped controls allow you to drag and drop layouts of controls as macros. And this is the first DAW to really try to do backing tracks in a way bands can use, even including Ableton Live. ReWire support should make this particularly interesting, as solutions like a Logic-Live rig now become practical. Well, guess what? Apple says they’ve added all of that to MainStage 2. Musicians need a way of recording their gigs.Better control mapping was needed for real performance – including grouping.ReWire is a must, so people using tools like Ableton Live (or Reason, or the awesome tracker Renoise) can work with them in a MainStage rig.MainStage needs a way of playing backing tracks, particularly for bands and acoustic players and soloists.I loved the idea of MainStage when it came out, but I had a number of complaints in regards to what musicians would actually want to do for live performance. ![]() In the meantime, here’s how it looks “on paper,” in a nutshell. I should receive my testing copy then, too, so expect more details. I’m meeting with Apple next week, so if you think of any smart questions, do pass them along. Banner features: “Flex Time” audio warping, new goodies for guitarists (plus integration with a new audio interface and pedalboard from Apogee), expanded support for working with video and outputting compression, and most interestingly, tools for making MainStage a feature you might actually take onstage.
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