Re: OT: In praise of Mainstage

["Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I had that *exact* same thing happen to me at a different performance!

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> At 10:08 AM -0700 6/11/08, info at zoekeating wrote:
>>
>> i don't use Mainstage, but the whole ordering thing has thrown me off
>> numerous times... [*snip*]
>>
>> and don't get me started about sleep....
>
> This is exactly what bit me during the second half of my LY2k7 
>performance.
>  Since everything depends on a quick load in/out, I set everything up 
>then
> slept the computer.  Thirty seconds later, I realized that there was one
> tweek I had yet to make so I opened the laptop back up again.  However, 
>I'd
> already packed up the audio interface, so Ableton automatically switched 
>my
> preferences back to the internal card without informing me.
>
> Later, I started to fire up everything onstage, but quickly found I had 
>to
> punt all the laptop stuff because of no audio.  It was only after the
> performance that I realized it was simply Live shuttling everything out 
>the
> wrong interface.
>
> Grrrrrrr...  >8/
>
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