So you can integrate Ableton into Mainstage, but Apple makes it pretty much impossible to integrate Mainstage into any other music application. However, Ableton is more like a new way of making/remixing music on the fly, not simply an instrument. Mainstage is more like a very flexible extension to an existing (master) keyboard you can almost 'draw' your interface and customize it to work just they way you want it and it functions as a kind of hub that is controlling all your (software) instruments.Ībleton can do a lot of the same things as Mainstage, but not as flexible and certainly not with Mainstage's nice interface (once you get it set up). You'd probably use Mainstage and Ableton in different situations. I could post a bit of a howto on setting up Ableton with Mainstage.Įighty8 wrote:I am about to get my hands on Abelton live version today and will begin to set it up and play with it this weekend ! It seems most guys like the Abelton live for most situations. If you use a controller in Ableton to trigger beat repeater or whatever, you do need to set that up before you start Mainstage. Then you have to do some setup in Mainstage (some weird incantations, just like in Logic) after which you can see your channels in Ableton in Mainstage and use them as if their regular channels in Mainstage. So you'd start Ableton (you do not need to configure MIDI and audio interfaces, as MIDI/audio will be communicated via Rewire between Ableton and Mainstage) and then start Mainstage. You always start the Rewire slave first and then the master application (a running Rewire-capable application automatically becomes a slave when a new master starts). Mainstage (and Logic) can only run as a Rewire master (curse you Apple!) so if you want to integrate something else via Rewire, it needs to run as a slave. Ableton and Reason can function both as a Rewire master and a slave, so you could have Reason control Ableton or the other way around. is automatically sent between both applications. A Rewire master controls a Rewire slave and audio, control information, MIDI clock, etc. The guys from Propellorhead software, who also make Reason, came up with it.
#APPLE MAINSTAGE INSTRUMENTS IN ABLETON SOFTWARE#
Rewire is a software protocol that allows music applications to control each other. Mainstage itself only supports AU plugins (Ableton does both AU and VST), but via Ableton you can also use VST plugins in Mainstage.
If you do this, can you can use plugins running in Ableton as if they were running in Mainstage. Eighty8 wrote:So you have no problem running mainstage in conjunction with Abelton live then ? In the manner which you described?īit of extra info: you need to run Mainstage as a Rewire master and Ableton as a Rewire slave.
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