Hi there, I have been watching the mainstage tutorial and wanted to run a sample of background noise from a song I have already made. I figured out how to assign the sound on to the exs24 in logic. I have then saved this as an instrument. Now when I go back to mainstage I cannot find the instrument to load up. Any ideas, am I going mad?? something I'm missing? Please help. Many thanks

Hi Jordyjcross Can you find the sample in Logic's EXS24 menu? How did you save the sampler instrument? What about if you save the whole channel strip as a channel strip setting? Also what version of Logic & Mainstage are you running? :)

I just saved as in the instrument section. it saved as a .exs and now it appears in the exs24 menu in logic but not in mainstage. Oh ok, should i save it as a channel strip...? I am running logic 8 Cheers dude

Well, first, I'd make sure to save the EXS24 instrument in a new folder. e.g. In the EXS24 instrument editor choose to save instrument. Then create a new folder of your choice in: Users/(your home folder)/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/ That should work... oh, one thing... try creating the instrument in Logic when Mainstage is not running. Yes, experiment and if the above doesn't work, load your EXS24 instrument onto a channel strip in Logic and save the channel strip setting. :) R

I'll give that a whirl, thanks a lot! I may need more assistance if that doesn't work but for now I must go to bed, it's nearly midnight in London! Cheers.

No probs Jordy! Ask as many questions as you need. We're here to help! Yeah... my eyes are struggling to stay open. (It's 10 to midnight here in Bristol!) ;-)

Cool thanks. Sorry, I assumed you were based in the states.. Oh well, I got the channel strip into mainstage but it won't play. I have no idea, I am pretty new on mainstage. Was just wondering if I really need to use it if I am getting playback fine through Logic?

Hey Jordy, No probs! Good news is we're in the same time zone ;-) OK. This should work fine. I use Mainstage 2 these days... so I can't test this on MS1 - but I'm pretty sure it used to work fine for me. Just to check do you have the latest Logic updates (8.0.2)? If Logic works for you then that's great - Mainstage has great potential... and Mainstage 2 has a plugin called "Playback" which makes it super simple to load an audio file and play it back in Mainstage2 directly. :) Rounik

Hey dude, How's it going? I have made a channel strip setting I like of my mate playing bass. How do I now import those settings into a new song file? Cheers

Hey Jordy, By Channel strip setting, you don't mean the region (MIDI/Audio data) on the track right? If not..: No need to import a CSS. When you create the CSS, save it (click and hold on the "Settings" button on top of the channel strip and choose to save it). It should be automatically saved within the following location: HD/Users/(Your Home Folder)/Library/Application Support/Logic/Channel Strip Settings/ In any new or old project you should be able to find the CSS from the Drop down menu or in the Library area. :) Rounik