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I am wondering if someone might be able to help me figure out how I can use the instruments in Apple Logic with Ableton live.

Apple Logic has good synthesizers like the EXS24, ES2, EVP88 etc...

Is it possible to use these fine instruments in Ableton Live?
If so, could you please help me understand how to do it?

I want to be able to use it like a VST plug-in.

Thank you for your time!
Cheers
-Nathan

No, it's not possible

You can purchase Apples Mainstage from the app store and use it as an external instrument to Ableton. This gives you access to all the Logic instruments and includes all the loops (many gigs) and patches that come with Logic but for about $30 - an incredible deal.

Thank you so much for the replies.

When I bought Apple Logic it came with Mainstage 2 and I do have Mainstage as an app on my computer...in my Applications folder.

It is great news to hear that I can use it as an external instrument for Ableton Live but I do not know where to begin on setting it up to be recognized by Ableton.

If you have any hints or if there are already tutorials on this that shows me the steps I would greatly appreciate any tips on where I should begin.

Thank you again for your help.
Cheers
-Nathan

Mainstage is a rewire master, not a slave, so you would not be able to control it from within Live. You can, however, play instruments from Logic, and record the audio into Live by opening Live first, then Logic, which prevents it from establishing a rewire connection (which would severely limit Live's usability), and use Soundflower or Jack to route the audio into Live for recording.

Soundflower. Yes. Thank you so much for your input.
I am successful. I appreciate your time in helping me.

Cheers
-Nathan

I know I’m super late to this party, but to follow up here, it doesn’t sound like you need mainstage at all, just Logic. Am I correct here? Thanks!

Hi -

Just adding to this - Blackhole is a great working alternative to Soundflower.
https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

Has been working great to get Gleetchlab into Live 10.1.x

I'm on Mac OsX El Capitan 10.11.6.

And YES if you already have Logic, you should be able to get its sound into Live without Mainstage.
Using Blackhole, if you can't get Soundflower to work.

Also YES there's an option to turn off Live as Rewire Master - but you have to stick it in an options.txt message in the Live Preferences folder on your system.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. I saw a video that showed some info on how to send MIDI to Mainstage from Live, it seemed fairly easy but I’d need to find some things and install and what have you. Ideally I’d want Logic/Mainstage to function as a VST/AU inside Live, but it doesn’t seem you can get that functionality as simple as using NI or Reason or something similar.